Eric Nicksick is making sure that
Sean
Strickland’s recent brawl with upcoming opponent
Dricus Du
Plessis
doesn’t take an emotional toll on the UFC middleweight
champion.
Strickland is slated to defend his middleweight strap against Du
Plessis in the main event at
UFC 297
on Jan. 20 in Toronto. The bad blood between the two started during
a recent seasonal press conference where “Stillknocks” brought up
Strickland’s abusive childhood.
The feud boiled over while the two were in attendance at UFC 296
the next day. Strickland was seen leaping over chairs to attack Du
Plessis after an exchange of words before being escorted out of the
T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
As Strickland’s head coach at Xtreme Couture, Nicksick admits that
the champ was triggered by the altercation with Du Plessis.
However, Nicksick claims to have made sure that Strickland has used
it for motivation heading into their upcoming fight.
“There’s two sides to that coin: Sean has no problem saying what he
says about everybody else, so people are going to probably poke and
say things about him, as welI,” Nicksick told