Days after shredding Sean Strickland over his performance at UFC 312, coach Eric Nicksick knew he’d f*cked up.
Strickland came up short in his long-awaited rematch with reigning middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis in Sydney, Australia, delivering a lackluster performance en route to a decisive unanimous decision defeat. Strickland’s poor outing was made all the more worse by the fact that the fighter had challenged ‘DDP’ to fight him “to the death” 48 hours earlier.
Addressing his fighters’ shortcomings on an episode of The Ariel Helwani Show following UFC 312, Nicksick called Strickland’s showing “uninspired” and that it seemed like he was “sleepwalking” through the whole 25-minute affair.