Sean Strickland shares brutal sparring video ahead of UFC return

The erstwhile UFC middleweight champion has a caller ngo aboriginal adjacent year.

Sean Strickland has ne'er been known arsenic a combatant who spares himself oregon others successful sparring, and his latest grooming league with 1 of the astir explosive middleweight fighters was thing but easy.

The erstwhile UFC champion returns to the Octagon connected February 21, erstwhile helium volition look Anthony “Fluffy” Hernandez successful a combat that should service arsenic his archetypal measurement towards returning to the precise apical of the division. Ahead of that performance, Strickland is intelligibly not leaving thing to chance. In the latest video published connected Instagram, helium showed parts of sparring with Michel Pereira, a grooming league that helium himself, without hesitation, called a fight.

Strickland has been known for years for highly hard sparring, often against importantly weaker oregon much inexperienced partners. That is precisely wherefore this "war" grooming with Pereira did not astonishment those who travel his attack to sports. What remains an unfastened question is whether helium volition amusement up with the aforesaid mentality against Hernandez, considering that Strickland is besides known for his warring style, which tin often beryllium pragmatic, adjacent unattractive to the audience.

Video clip

The abbreviated video clip shows an aggravated exchange, Strickland dodging punches, but besides precise counterattacks, including almighty punches and knees. After the sparring, helium did not fell the content that Pereira made connected him, portion maintaining his recognizable, earthy humor.

– Brazilians volition dice for nothing, antheral – helium said with a laugh. – You person nary idea. You tin enactment a peanut successful the ringing and they volition dice for that peanut. But I truly respect them.

When the idiosyncratic filming noticed that “everyone is trying to termination him today”, Strickland conscionable laughed and concisely replied that helium needed it.

He besides accompanied the video with a telling caption:

– It wouldn’t beryllium Tuesday if immoderate Brazilian wasn’t trying to chopped my beingness short… February 21st.

Ante Delija volition besides beryllium appearing astatine the aforementioned lawsuit successful Houston. The Dubrovnik autochthonal is coming for his 2nd UFC triumph aft a disastrous referee determination successful Las Vegas, erstwhile helium was objectively severely injured, and Sergei Spivac volition effort to spoil the plans of the champion Croatian MMA heavyweight.