Jorge Masvidal believes Sean Strickland has elevated himself into legendary status following UFC 328.<\/p>\n
Strickland challenged Khamzat Chimaev for the UFC Middleweight Championship this past Saturday. Strickland was a sizable underdog, just as he was before defeating Israel Adesanya back in 2023. Once again, Strickland pulled off a massive upset by dethroning Chimaev via split decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n Masvidal backed Strickland to upset \u201cBorz\u201d prior to UFC 328. Speaking to Full Send MMA<\/a>, \u201cGamebred\u201d said that Strickland is now a lock for UFC\u2019s greatest honor (via MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cSean Strickland has to go down as a Hall of Famer, and is an all-time great,\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cLet\u2019s take a little step back. Even before he got the belt, he\u2019s had some amazing performances throughout his career. He fought at 170, he was cutting a little too much weight.<\/p>\n \u201cHe came up, he really started showing out, finishing guys, setting himself up for success. Separating himself from the pack by his fight style. He has a good finishing rate, and he\u2019s beaten a lot of up-and-coming guys, he beat a lot of established guys, and he beat a lot of guys he probably should have never beat.\u201d<\/p>\n Strickland now joins an elite list of names who have captured UFC gold twice or more. That list includes the likes of Georges St-Pierre, BJ Penn, Jon Jones, and many more. The question many have now is can he turn in a successful title defense?<\/p>\n The first UFC title defense for Strickland ended in a split decision loss to Dricus du Plessis. He has now set his sights on Nassourdine Imavov, but Chimaev is seeking a title rematch. This is despite UFC CEO Dana White claiming he was told by Chimaev about plans to move up to 205 pounds.<\/p>\n Is it too soon to call Sean Strickland a surefire UFC Hall of Famer, or do you think he has done enough to seal it in the future? Let your voice be heard in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal believes Sean Strickland has elevated himself into legendary status following UFC 328. Strickland challenged Khamzat Chimaev…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-665009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}