Sean Strickland can simply get beneath folks’s pores and skin.
Would anybody have anticipated a type of folks to be Final Combating Championship (UFC) Flyweight champion, Alexandre Pantoja? Nicely, added him to the ever-growing record.
The Flyweight division had a second of fear in direction of the tail-end of Demetrius Johnson’s reign in 2018. Hypothesis constructed towards the notion that the promotion would possibly axe the burden class altogether after Johnson’s dominant victories weren’t producing viewership. Subsequently, criticism typically was thrown in direction of the fighters and Strickland hasn’t been shy to take photographs at whomever he sees match.
“I used to be very mad when Strickland mentioned that for girls and Flyweight guys,” Pantoja instructed Shakiel Mahjouri. “Shut your mouth. Respect my job. I put meals on my desk with that, are you loopy? Each Flyweight works so laborious for that. That’s why everybody respects one another at Flyweight. It’s laborious while you see somebody say unhealthy issues about us as a result of we work laborious, it’s a really laborious division, we must be coaching 100% of the time. It’s not nearly one punching, you should be [with] good grappling, good cardio, good placing, good each place. That’s a tough division within the UFC.”
Pantoja, 34, appears to earn his second profitable title protection when he competes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in opposition to Steve Erceg at UFC 301 this weekend (Sat., Could 4, 2024). In the meantime, Strickland will attempt to return to the win column with a win over Paulo Costa at UFC 302 on June 1, 2024.
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