Sean Strickland is difficult for UFC middleweight gold once more on Might ninth, and the previous 185-pound Bellator MMA/PFL champion provided some perception into the bout. Strickland, a former division kingpin, will look to climb the mountain once more when he takes on present titleholder Khamzat Chimaev within the headliner of UFC 328.
Evren is used to showing in MMA championship situations and has lengthy been thought of top-of-the-line middleweights on the earth. His latest on-line feud with the UFC middleweight champion additionally got here to gentle as Eblen touted Strickland as a fighter who might defeat Khamzat Chimaev and regain the middleweight title.
When requested for his ideas on that complete state of affairs with Chimaev and “Bolts'” impending middleweight title protection in opposition to his hated rival Strickland within the coming weeks, Evren mentioned (by way of Bowks Speaking Bouts),
“Yeah, I feel Strickland has a superb probability to beat Chimaev together with his fashion. You possibly can’t manhandle Strickland like that. You possibly can’t simply maintain him down. You possibly can’t simply wrestle him like he fought DDP.”
“I feel if he had a match just like the one he fought Gilbert (Barnes), there would have been moments like that. I imply, to be trustworthy, I really feel like Chimaev let Gilbert go a couple of instances as a result of he did not wish to take care of the grappling, he did not wish to take care of the BJJ on the bottom.”
Based on Eblen, Sean Strickland has an opportunity to win a dogfight with Khamzat Chimaev.
Evren continued (by way of Bowks Speaking Bouts),
“However I feel the extra it is a dogfight, the higher it’s for Strickland, and I feel he could make it a dogfight. Particularly if he stays on his ft and retains combating, I feel he has a greater probability of profitable. I will exit. I am truly going to exit after the combat and assist him and get him prepared for the Chimaev combat.”
“I feel it is a good match for him. I feel we push one another and it is at all times nice coaching. So so long as Sean stays wholesome and targeted, I feel he has a very good probability to win the title once more, dude.”
