This past weekend, Sean Strickland returned to winning ways at UFC Houston, stopping Anthony Hernandez by TKO in Round 3 of the main event. Right after “Tarzan” got his hand raised, he called out Khamzat Chimaev.
Even earlier today, the controversial UFC star called out the middleweight champion:
“Keep running, Chechen wh*re…. I know the score, you know the score….”
And Chimaev responded with:
“See you soon boy 🤫”
Meanwhile, it appears that Sean Strickland’s head coach already has a game plan in mind for how to dethrone “Borz.”
Sean Strickland’s head coach reveals blueprint to beat Khamzat Chimaev
In a recent interview with Submission Radio, Eric Nicksick stated that to stop Khamzat Chimaev, they must figure out how to stuff takedowns and disrupt the Chechen-born Emirati’s “chain-wrestling sequences,” which could force “Borz” to stray from his original game plan:
“We’re going to have our work cut out for us. If we can shut some of that stuff down and make him doubt any of these routes that he’s on, especially when it comes to the ground game – he’s very systematic – if we can disrupt some of those chain wrestling sequences that he puts together and make him restart and put some doubt in his mind. And when you defend those takedowns, make him pay for it. Tell him, hey, if you’re going to come in here, you’re going to have to pay a price for that.”
Check out Erick Nicksick’s comments below:
At the UFC Houston post-fight presser, Sean Strickland had claimed that he made “Borz” quit training and that Chimaev would ‘walk in the gym and would pick the smallest, lowest-level pros’ to spar with.
Addressing his pupil’s previous claims, the head coach at Xtreme Couture added during the same interview:
“I think what happens in the training room should stay in the training room. Training is training. Guys should be putting themselves in less advantageous positions to make themselves better, doing a lot of situational sparring and situational training… So thinking that just because you beat a guy in the training room, whether you are on the A side or the B side, you shouldn’t take that into the fight.”
Check out Erick Nicksick’s comments below: