Media Strickland's coach: It's up to me & other coaches of MWs to change in training, for hypothetical Chimaev fight

[Unheralded Truth]

Eric Nicksick was watching closely as Chimaev put on an all-time dominant performance against du Plessis at UFC 319 to claim the 185-pound belt. The Xtreme Couture
head coach was impressed with what he saw and also admits it's daunting.

Chimaev has put together a skillset that no one is able to figure out, and Nicksick's mind was working as he saw Du Plessis fail to come up with answers.

"What do you do if you fight a guy like that? There was a moment when I was watching the fight where I was trying to put myself in DDP's coach's shoes, and what
adjustments to make in these positions," Nicksick told MMA Junkie Radio. "It's certainly a position you don't want to be in where it's like, 'Fuck, this is one-way traffic.'
How can you create some opportunities for your fighter? A similar way I felt with Roman and 'Fluffy'. You have to try to create something to get the band playing, get some
offense on our side."

Eric Nicksick believes all UFC middleweights now need to start adapting their training for the new champion, whether they could be facing him any time soon or not.

"That's the tough part when you have a guy like Khamzat, who can dictate where the fight goes and where the fight takes place. You know it's coming. It's like Mariano Rivera.
When you go back to the drawing board with Dricus' camp, maybe it's just more situation sparring of tough positions, shark tanks, practicing your get-ups and things like that.
But good luck, man. This is going to be the task that a lot of us at 185 are going to have now."

"Let's say Sean wins a fight or two before we get a crack at Khamzat," Nicksick said. "During that timeline, you definitely want to start to implement some things that are going
to negate that wrestling or build on to if you do eventually fight him, or Fluffy and RDR. A lot of those guys have the same sort of pedigree, if you will, with Khamzat being at
the top of that skillset. You want to start adding those attributes to your camp whether you're even fighting him or not."

Ex-UFC champion's coach details necessary training for chance to beat Khamzat Chimaev

Eric Nicksick believes all UFC middleweights need to start adapting their training for Khamzat Chimaev, whether they're in camp to face him or not.

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[Leinster Rugby]

I think they should adopt an approach where Sean plods forward a lot and throws single strikes, mostly jabs and teep kicks.

 

[usernamee]

Romero said something similar. He said the other guys like Hernandez for example, he's fighting RDR. And that, without losing focus on RDR completely of course, he should start preparing for the wrestling of Chimaev now in this camp even though he's not fighting him.

He said 3-4 months of training specifically for Chimaev is never going to cut it and you need way more than that.

His co-host on the podcast also asked him about Strickland and that he said that Stricks had said he has really good TDD and Romero immediately scoffed "Pfft! No way. Forget about it man. Just forget about it."

 

[Ayreon]

Too late, they are fucked already

 

[TCE]

Rick Nick Sick is ill and needs a year off.

 

[HuskySamoan]

You dont "change training" for guys in their late 20s and 30s when theres a huge fucking embarrassing deficit. Coaches and gyms need to have foresight and comprehensive, individualistic development for their fighters starting at young, young ages. Not "woah, he can't stop a rassler, doi!"

 

[Portland8242]

I'll actually go ahead and give Strickland the credit that he has better TDD/defensive grappling than DDP but the result is going to be all the same against Chimaev.

 

[spinup]

I'll actually go ahead and give Strickland the credit that he has better TDD/defensive grappling than DDP but the result is going to be all the same against Chimaev.

DDP had a very poor performance, but knowing what Khamzat did to Whittaker should be more worrying to the division.

 

[Koala]

US wrestlers, Cuban wrestlers, and Iranian wrestlers face off against technical scrambles-heavy Caucasian wrestlers in every freestyle wrestling tournament. Sometimes, they win, sometimes they lose. I am sure the wrestling coaches of the main US gyms would have more ideas on how to defend/counter Chimaev's wrestling and what to focus on than South African Edmund. Mocco, Barzini, Cormier, etc., have wrestled those guys for years

 

[World eater]

I think they should adopt an approach where Sean plods forward a lot and throws single strikes, mostly jabs and teep kicks.

You might be on to something. Maybe also go berserk in the last 15 seconds of round 5.
I wonder if Sean could stick to a gameplan like that.

 

[Leinster Rugby]

You might be on to something. Maybe also go berserk in the last 15 seconds of round 5.
I wonder if Sean could stick to a gameplan like that.

It's served him SO well this far

 

[CasualBot]

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

Eric Nicksick was watching closely as Chimaev put on an all-time dominant performance against du Plessis at UFC 319 to claim the 185-pound belt. The Xtreme Couture
head coach was impressed with what he saw and also admits it's daunting.

Chimaev has put together a skillset that no one is able to figure out, and Nicksick's mind was working as he saw Du Plessis fail to come up with answers.

"What do you do if you fight a guy like that? There was a moment when I was watching the fight where I was trying to put myself in DDP's coach's shoes, and what
adjustments to make in these positions," Nicksick told MMA Junkie Radio. "It's certainly a position you don't want to be in where it's like, 'Fuck, this is one-way traffic.'
How can you create some opportunities for your fighter? A similar way I felt with Roman and 'Fluffy'. You have to try to create something to get the band playing, get some
offense on our side."

Eric Nicksick believes all UFC middleweights now need to start adapting their training for the new champion, whether they could be facing him any time soon or not.

"That's the tough part when you have a guy like Khamzat, who can dictate where the fight goes and where the fight takes place. You know it's coming. It's like Mariano Rivera.
When you go back to the drawing board with Dricus' camp, maybe it's just more situation sparring of tough positions, shark tanks, practicing your get-ups and things like that.
But good luck, man. This is going to be the task that a lot of us at 185 are going to have now."

"Let's say Sean wins a fight or two before we get a crack at Khamzat," Nicksick said. "During that timeline, you definitely want to start to implement some things that are going
to negate that wrestling or build on to if you do eventually fight him, or Fluffy and RDR. A lot of those guys have the same sort of pedigree, if you will, with Khamzat being at
the top of that skillset. You want to start adding those attributes to your camp whether you're even fighting him or not."

Ex-UFC champion's coach details necessary training for chance to beat Khamzat Chimaev

Eric Nicksick believes all UFC middleweights need to start adapting their training for Khamzat Chimaev, whether they're in camp to face him or not.

mmajunkie.usatoday.com

Let him talk to Ikram

 

[GoWokeGoBroke]

Here is the kicker. the break in rounds favor the striker. No knees to downed opponent favor the striker. Stand ups favor the striker.

and still they can’t do anything about it. Sorry folks they are given every advantage already, know what’s coming and still can’t stop it.

Don’t be mad at the grapplers they are already at a massive disadvantage. Add in the knees and no rounds guys like izzy and poatan don’t become champs. Which the ufc wouldn’t like.

Merab hazmat khabib Islam and I’m sure a few more on their way the ufc is panicking on how to keep these dominant grapplers from becoming champs.

Until our wrestling programs and colleges incorporate sambo and things change expect this is the new norm until ufc literally stops bringing these guys in which will be the next step guaranteed

 

[TriangleMonkey]

When Dana scouts “exciting” strikers for his org to be built-up this is the result

A dominant grappler comes along and destroys them

A skill-gap that cannot be simply closed

Sometimes good strikers just turn into grapplers over time when at the gym figuring out this puzzle

 

[Tweak896]

It's mma not kickboxing. Strickland was lucky to grab the belt while the MW division was only strikers. I can't believe how many I had to argue that Strickland wouldn't beat Khamzat, but seems like most can see it now. The only way they book this if they need an American to fight for Whitehouse card or something.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

A lot of Nicksicks guys at XC are losing fights due to their overly timid approach as of late

 

[tritestill]

Sean quit against DDP

 

[bng]

You may like DeSean or not but Guantanamo prison, human tortures or death sentence all combined is more fair to anyone rather than being forced to be involved in WMMA.
Im calling Hague human rights convention. Fucking inhuman.

 

[Rorschachxx]

Thought Nicksick and Strickland split after the second DDP fight?