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Sean Strickland is gaining quite the reputation as a crazy UFC fighter that has no filter. Sometimes that gets him into trouble though. In his gym, he takes training very seriously while still remaining himself, according to his coach, Eric Nicksick.
Eric Nicksick had to sit down with Sean Strickland before the UFC fighter joined his gym. As long as he respected the rules, he was free to do whatever he wanted.
“I love working with him,” Nicksick said when speaking to MMA Fighting about the UFC middleweight. “It just reminds me of the old school days at Xtreme Couture to be honest with you. When you have Mike Pyle and Jay [Hieron] and these guys get in on sparring day and they didn’t give a shit who you were and if you were friends. They were trying to fight you everyday and that was the vibe. Of course we went away from that because it wasn’t great for the longevity of your career but there’s an element of that, that I do like and a tenacity that I think is important.
“You want to have competition in the training room. Now Sean’s delivery is never the best. He doesn’t deliver things like nicely to people, but when you boil things down, the way Sean talks to his teammates or some of the people in the room, it’s really because he cares and he wants to get the best out of you.”
Sean Strickland absolutely loves to fight. The UFC middleweight even loves to spar with the hardest-hitting person in the gym, Francis Ngannou.
“That dude will literally spar anybody in our gym,” Nicksick said of the UFC fighter. “He calls Francis out every sparring session. He loves to spar Francis because he goes ‘I want to feel as close to death as possible and I want to have that fear of god in my heart every time I spar a guy like Francis Ngannou.’ So sure, we throw him in there and let him get some rounds with Francis.
“I watched him and Roy Nelson get after it last week. Those two try to knock each other’s heads off and here’s Sean Strickland, big old smile ear to ear.”
The two UFC fighters love to spar with each other and it's clear that it's a must-watch for anyone around. Sean Strickland is currently preparing for a main event fight against Jack Hermansson in February.
