Luke
Rockhold is of the opinion that Sean
Strickland is not the safest training partner.
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It is no secret that Strickland likes hard sparring and has
even bragged about breaking multiple noses in the past. Former
middleweight champ Luke
Rockhold recently recounted Strickland’s visit to RVCA in Costa
Mesa, California, where “Tarzan” allegedly went over the line with
a sparring partner.
“He’s just that guy that doesn’t care,” Rockhold told the
JAXXON Podcast. “He’ll try to kill you. Sean
Strickland walked into RVCA one time and he was such a loud
mouth idiot, I was like, ‘Who the f—k is this guy?’ I was so
hungover, so annoyed, I was like, ‘F—k, I’m going to get in a spar
with this guy, I can’t even take it.’ But I had seen him… he hurt
a guy in the gym. He hurt him with a head kick.
“With like 30 seconds left, he wobbled him. And [the coach]
was like, ‘Keep going, finish out the round.’ Instead of what most
people would do which is try to work with him — especially when
you’re on somebody else’s turf — Sean went straight back to that
head kick and tried to knock him out multiple times. There’s 30
seconds left in the round, the kid’s done, show yourself as a
f—-ing man and try to finish the round rather than just go back to
the well and knock him out.”
Strickland lost his middleweight championship against
Dricus Du
Plessis at
UFC 297 earlier this month via split decision. Meanwhile,
Rockhold parted ways with the promotion on a three-fight skid in
2022 and then went on to suffer a lopsided battering against
Mike
Perry in a bare-knuckle clash at BKFC 41.