Xtreme Couture head coach Eric Nicksick believes what happens
in the gym should stay in the gym. 

Sean
Strickland (30-7) has been accusing middleweight champion
Khamzat
Chimaev (15-0) of inactivity for a while now. Chimaev claims
Strickland is irked with him after getting submitted in the past
while training together at Xtreme Couture. 

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Strickland scored an upset win by knocking out Anthony
Hernandez at
UFC Houston last weekend. Strickland subsequently called for a
title shot against Chimaev. Strickland claims Chimaev submitted him
in a situational grappling spar. The former middleweight champ
claims he made Chimaev quit training at Xtreme Couture. Strickland
asked his teammates and his longtime coach, Nicksick, to back up
his claims. Meanwhile, Chimaev claims he destroyed Strickland in
sparring, and Nicksick is aware of it. 

Better Left Unsaid

However, Nicksick refuses to back up the claims of either
Strickland or Chimaev. Nicksick believes what happens in training
should stay inside the gym. Nicksick further warns that fighters
shouldn’t be focused on their sparring experience while going into
an actual fight against the same dance partner.

„I think what happens in the training room should stay in the
training room,” Nicksick told “… Thinking that just because you
beat a guy in the training room, whether you’re on the A side or B
side, you shouldn’t take that into the fight. What happens in the
training room, I feel like, should stay in the room. I think both
guys are great competitors and game opponents.”

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