Sean Strickland will challenge for the UFC middleweight title for a 3rd time in May.
Strickland’s coach believes his clash with Khamzat Chimaev is about greater than the belt because of the rivalry between the 2 men.
The proven fact that they’ve each been involved in brawls previously has led the likes of Joe Rogan to warn the UFC about how heated things could get on fight week.
Where the 2 elite middleweights differ is of their fighting styles, with them each having a signature approach that has proven to be very effective.
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Johnny Eblen talks plans to hitch Sean Strickland’s UFC 328 training camp
Dricus du Plessis believes you would like time to figure Sean Strickland out, but patience isn’t all the time something that we’ve seen from Khamzat Chimaev.
His grappling has seen him completely dominate and sometimes make quick work of whoever stands across the Octagon from him.
To organize for this heavy-wrestling approach, Strickland is bringing Johnny Eblen into his training camp, as the previous Bellator champion revealed when chatting with Bloody Elbow.
“I actually plan to exit and help him after my fight because me and Sean are buddies,” he said. “He hit me up, told me that he had a fight coming up before it got announced and I used to be like, ‘Alright, man. We’ll figure it out’ and I plan on going on the market to assist him. I feel I’d be an awesome search for him, push him within the wrestling.”
Eblen is currently focused on the ultimate steps of his preparations to face Bryan Battle within the foremost event of PFL Pittsburgh on March 28.
He’s confident that Strickland will give you the option to reclaim the belt by handing Chimaev his first loss having trained with the previous champion previously.
“I feel , healthy Sean coming off an awesome camp and coming out confident, I feel he’s going to offer him loads of problems. I don’t think Chimaev’s going to give you the option to manhandle him like he does other people,” Eblen said.
“I mean, either guy can win. It’s not going to be a cake walk, it’s going to be a troublesome fight, don’t get me improper. But, if he approaches it properly and is in tune with the training and never overtrained and prepares well for this fight, I feel he has an awesome shot at winning the title again.”
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Johnny Eblen doesn’t put much stock into Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev’s previous training sessions
Sean Strickland admitted that Khamzat Chimaev got the higher of him after they grappled in a previous training session.
There’s going to be loads of talk concerning the time that the 2 men spent with one another at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas over the approaching weeks.
Johnny Eblen, nevertheless, doesn’t think you may look an excessive amount of into this as a consider the fight.
“I suppose you type of get an understanding of how the guy can fight and what he’s good at, what he lacks and you could possibly probably pick up some info from it nevertheless it’s nothing crazy. It’s pretty normal.”
Training out of American Top Team, Eblen said that fighters all the time come and go and sometimes you will have to face people you’ve trained with, nevertheless it doesn’t change much.