This past weekend,Sean Stricklandreturned 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 outKhamzat Chimaev.
Even earlier today, the controversial UFC starcalled outthe middleweight champion:
“Keep running, Chechen wh*re…. I know the score, you know the score….”
Keep running Chechen whore…. I know the score, you know the score….
Meanwhile, it appears that Sean Strickland’s head coach already has a game plan in mind for how to dethrone “Borz.”
In a recent interview withSubmission 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 thosechain wrestlingsequences 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:
Erick Nicksick reveals the blueprint to beat Khamzat Chimaev: shut down the system and create doubt.👀😲"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…pic.twitter.com/F1CsMLlT0Q
At theUFC 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.
Source: LowKickMMA.com
