For someone who talks the way he does, Strickland is a boring fighter

elcj said:
Spamming jabs and counter-fighting. At least when fighters like Israel do it, they mix it up, are a lot more technical and make it look good
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He doesn't even really counter... his entire gameplan is to break you down with the jab until he can start teeing off.
 
tough guy who walks out of sparring into a fight and back again, zero threat to the belt
 
Isn't strickland the guy who said he wanted to be the first guy to kill someone inside the octagon?
 
Ham Socks said:
Sherdog logic.

Wrestler? Boring.
Counter striker? Boring.
Dirty boxer? Boring.
Jiu Jiutsu tactician? Boring.


Throw caution and fight IQ to the wind? Acceptable.
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Dana has been pushing for this for years.

Contender Series is geared up to this kind of style.
 
The problem is he talks the talk, but doesn't perform as such. He said many times he wants to kill an opponent, but then when its fight time he just point fights and does the same basic jab on loop, I don't see the killer instinct at all

Way too much talking and constant interviews, and very little action



Now people in this thread saying why do people find it boring like Machida and Wonderboy?? nah you are totally missing the point, guys like Wonderboy don't say the things that Sean says.. they don't talk like that. Sean talks violent talk but just does not back that up at all, actually does the total opposite and it very timid and tentative in the fights.
 
Masturbin said:
I mean you guys should have realistic expetations.

When is the last time Strickland showed finishing instinct and violent animal rage ?(lawler style)
Never.
Strickland just jabs and tries to drown you with volume in the later rounds.

Strickland is a dollar store version of Max.
Strickland is pretty much modern bisping.
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Bisping was way more aggressive and Had killer instinct.
I do appreciate some similarities even the look and overall fighting style.
Bisping has a 60 % ko/ tko rate
30 fights 18 Stoppages by strikes

Strickland has only 40 %
25 fights and only 10 stoppages by strikes.
 
Brit_Brawler said:
Bisping was way more aggressive and Had killer instinct.
I do appreciate some similarities even the look and overall fighting style.
Bisping has a 60 % ko/ tko rate
30 fights 18 Stoppages by strikes

Strickland has only 40 %
25 fights and only 10 stoppages by strikes.
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Agree Bisping took more risk and was willing to take damage if he needed to.
Also the finishing stats are way lower for both if you only take ufc fights 37% for Bisping and 28 for Sean.
 
Ham Socks said:
Sherdog loves guys like Leonard Garcia, and hated guys like Kampmann, Machida, and Strickland.
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Hard to draw parallels on anything related to Machida and Strickland. Kampmann was an exciting fighter, too. Strickland has nothing on either of then. No style and no substance to his game.
 
Strickland needs a little more "Chandler at MSG" fight style.

I like him, because he's a goofy, unfiltered regular guy at the tip of the MW division.


I also think the previous loss to Pereira where Strickland got pounded probably caused Sean to be a bit more mindful of the power Cannonier has.
 
He fights very defensively. He fights off the jab well, but favors a retreating jab. We rarely see Sean simply walking down his opponent in order to step in to line up a 1,2 combo.
 
Dr Fong said:
Hipster logic. Mindless contrarianism substitutes for actual critical thinking.

Strickland bases his game around some fundamentals that he is quite good at. But there is no hidden technical genius, no dynamism, just repetition. He is just flat out boring to any fight fan with any sense.
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This.

I chuckled quite a bit when the commentators were calling his style “economical”. Like sure, he doesn’t do a whole lot. Even when he moves away, he doesn’t make a lot of steps. Combos? Not many, really. Just a plain old, not particularly inspired jab. It lands quite a bit, it rarely creates openings for him to do more, and it doesn’t really hurt his opponent all that much, or nearly enough to come close to finishing the fight at any point. And that’s what he’s sticking to.

He looked like he thought he was in a sparring session. Not really committed to anything decisive, just coasting to the final bell. Then he gets upset that he lost?

The guy has 30 pro fights to his resume, with 11 of his 17 UFC fights reaching the final bell. He should know better at this point.
 
Pilo said:
This.

I chuckled quite a bit when the commentators were calling his style “economical”. Like sure, he doesn’t do a whole lot. Even when he moves away, he doesn’t make a lot of steps. Combos? Not many, really. Just a plain old, not particularly inspired jab. It lands quite a bit, it rarely creates openings for him to do more, and it doesn’t really hurt his opponent all that much, or nearly enough to come close to finishing the fight at any point. And that’s what he’s sticking to.

He looked like he thought he was in a sparring session. Not really committed to anything decisive, just coasting to the final bell. Then he gets upset that he lost?

The guy has 30 pro fights to his resume, with 11 of his 17 UFC fights reaching the final bell. He should know better at this point.
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I'm not hating on the style. He has no obligation to entertain. His only obligation is to weigh the pros and cons of fighting in such a way for his bank balance, of which there definitely are both pros and cons.

And as fans, we are under no obligation to smear almond milk all over our neckbeards and flannel collars and then tell people it's somehow entertaining.
 
With counter fighters, when the other fighter decides to turtle up and not throw it can easily lead into stalemates. It happened more than once with Izzy, and even with Silva. Silva had a propensity for luring the opponent into attack with taunts and such, and sometimes styles off. But Izzy who is much more conservative and composed has had a fair share of stinkers already, in a much shorter reign.

Strickland is not as refined or good as those guys, but this is something common to counter fighters, regardless of how exciting they can be.
 
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