For as much as Sean Strickland generates headlines for unfortunate reasons, the man is also a pretty good teammate.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Strickland scored another career-defining win, reclaiming the middleweight title by upsetting Khamzat Chimaev in the main event of UFC 328. The victory was Strickland\u2019s second title-winning upset and may solidify his place in the UFC Hall of Fame one day. But after the massive win, Strickland is still primarily focused on his teammates.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Strickland returned to his gym, Xtreme Couture, to show his teammates his new belt and give them a word of thanks and encouragement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter every L I\u2019ve got, the fact that I went back and came to the gym is why I have another one of these f*ckers,\u201d Strickland said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat being said, as always, I want to thank you guys. I\u2019m pretty fucked up; I\u2019m going to take a few weeks off. But I wouldn\u2019t be here without you guys, seriously. F*cking, all the coaches, would not be here without you. So, it\u2019s not just my belt, it\u2019s our belt. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for what comes next for Strickland, that\u2019s still to be decided. Former champion Khamzat Chimaev has already started angling for an immediate rematch. Meanwhile, Strickland has said he believes in honoring the UFC rankings, suggesting a rematch with No. 3-ranked contender Nassourdine Imavov could be next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For as much as Sean Strickland generates headlines for unfortunate reasons, the man is also a pretty good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-667070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}