Sean Strickland is ranked among the UFC’s pound-for-pound best and fight fans are not happy about it.
Returning to the Octagon at UFC 312, ‘Tarzan’ delivered a lackluster five-round performance against reigning middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis. In the days leading up to their fight, Strickland continuously called for the two to “fight to the death” once locked in the cage.
But when the time came, Strickland largely sat behind his jab and allowed ‘DDP’ to control the action en route to a dominant unanimous decision victory.
But despite Strickland’s poor performance that earned criticism from virtually everyone, including UFC analyst Din Thomas, the outspoken middleweight star still found himself sitting among the top 15 P4P fighters in the world.