Sean Strickland is ranked among the many UFC’s pound-for-pound greatest and combat followers should not blissful about it.
Returning to the Octagon at UFC 312, ‘Tarzan’ delivered a lackluster five-round efficiency towards reigning middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis. Within the days main as much as their combat, Strickland repeatedly referred to as for the 2 to “fight to the death” as soon as locked within the cage.
However when the time got here, Strickland largely sat behind his jab and allowed ‘DDP’ to manage the motion en path to a dominant unanimous resolution victory.
However regardless of Strickland’s poor efficiency that earned criticism from just about everybody, together with UFC analyst Din Thomas, the outspoken middleweight star nonetheless discovered himself sitting among the many high 15 P4P fighters on the planet.
Followers slam Sean Strickland’s spot within the UFC p4P rankings
Earlier than his rematch with Du Plessis in Australia, Strickland was sitting because the No. 14 ranked P4P fighter on the planet. His loss to ‘Stillknocks’ finally knocked him down one spot, however followers have been fast to name bullsh*t on the rankings, suggesting that Strickland must be nowhere close to it after such a weak exhibiting.
“Why is Strickland even ranked lmao,” one person commented.
“The fact O’malley and Strickland are even on this list lol,” one other added.
“Sean shouldn’t be top 15 after that performance,” a 3rd wrote.
“Why is Sean in the top 15 P4P dude ain’t top 1000.”
“Strickland being ranked is pathetic honestly.”
Du Plessis outstruck Strickland in all however one spherical at UFC 312 and outlanded his challenger by a margin of 147 to 128. ‘DDP’ additionally scored certainly one of two takedowns, a far cry from the six he landed of their first assembly. Nonetheless, that didn’t cease Du Plessis from operating away with issues on the scorecards.
