New middleweight champion, Sean Strickland, answered questions from the media following UFC 293 on Saturday. All OFFICIAL …
hello oh Alice congratulations on the victory I don’t know if you know but I think you’re one of the third or fourth UFC fighters to ever pull off an Ezekiel choke in there so uh what are your emotions after a win like that yeah first of all I don’t know why I don’t have any bonuses to that so probably like all the fans in the comments I saw the the sayings is that I have to it was a like my very first uh submission until you see it was a very good performance via striking with a really dangerous Striker and uh uh all uh stadium was supporting him so I don’t know why I don’t have any bonuses so uh it’s like question I don’t know who yeah but yeah I’ve been great with this so easy culture works very good I know uh during cadizes tonight I remember every single like like teach me in the past when I was really young and I drive with him so yeah it was awesome so that’s not a submission you practice regularly uh not really I I just know how to do this yeah I try to do some submissions to us uh first like but doesn’t work he was a little bit like a slippery and he was like a radio for the submission uh and uh I see how Ezekiel a joke uh like it will work with him and I just did it you were in there and you were getting the better of him on the feed too it looks like at the end of the first round he was very bloody so I’m curious how did the fight play out in Camp as compared to how it played out in the actual fight in my Camp a lot of like a similar style guys yeah but I was really surprised the state of also he’s a really tough fighter he’ll get uh like get some so much punches from me I did I throw some of them really hard and a feeling how hard it was for him but he keeps stayed on his legs and then fight with me and I feel he he was like a real real dangerous or all the way all the fire so for me it was like a really good challenge but uh it goes really good for me I I work hard and I I I fight I like easier the final one for me what would you like the rest of your year to look like would you like to get one more fight in before the end of the year and if so do you have names at this point uh of course I want to fight I want to fight this uh as much as possible to to to get back and titles uh and title uh Battle Race so um yeah I’m ready to to fight in the end of the year or maybe like in the beginning of the next year so I I will keep going training I’m going to Camp I’m just enjoying my camps enjoying enjoying practice enjoying learning new things so I have all the files as you know like almost like 50 but uh I will keep like learning new things and I really motivated and I’m feeling like I have everything to be a champion future Alex uh just want to quickly get your thoughts on uh Ty’s walkout music Missy Higgins can I say that Alex volkov is a Missy Higgins fan after tonight uh I I I didn’t hear this song before so for me it was a little bit like a weird to hear it was it was another like fight music something but but uh it was nice it was cool so I was like you know in uh in the flow of of what was happening today and all a stadium I also flew uh I feel like how everybody support him but I enjoyed the uh the event I understand uh all fans who support him Beyond his homeland so I was just I was just a really good mood today and it was really nice is there a shoe in your plans tonight to celebrate is uh is uh oh I I think plans and really uh you know like uh for uh I will drink some beer but for foreign like a regular way or maybe like oh my gosh but not from sure sorry foreign like in the build up to this fight you and Ty were very friendly and there wasn’t much trash talking as compared to the other fights do you feel like they gave you an advantage coming into this fight um uh no because it was not like my advantage it is uh you know it’s really normal uh yeah I know for France it’s it’s much better and much interesting if Fighters like hate each other but we are both like I’m uh have a lot of experience in the sport I I was a lot of battles and I met a lot of different Fighters and I understand how it’s worse you know it’s like uh or or all the guys who angry each other after fights they became a friends so it’s just maybe for fans but uh I understand I’m I’m trying to be a professional in my sport I’m don’t put a lot of energy on trash token on like all these things I just I try to keep going like straight uh and to be like a professional and show a really good fight in in octagon not like outside but I understand that it’s more interesting for for friends to to make some trash talk uh I don’t know English maybe a little bit better and I will I will start to try doing too um you manage to keep the distance pretty well between tying yourself you’re using your reach really well but tire was getting you with some really good lower calf kicks did they start to affect you towards the uh middle part of the second round before you took him down uh it’s got some effect you know this is like uh how to say uh not uh it’s a good way for him if he like it just uh you just this damage I have from the file just for from his care of kicks uh I mean I I’m exposed this like before before the fight but my list was really ready for this is just bruises uh you know I’m originally from Karate we have a lot of these kicks or low kicks and Chaos kicks like in our sport so I’m really used to this it was a not a really big deal for me so and you know especially in the real in the real like Last Kiss uh uh I tried I tried to to give him uh the work because I feel like when when he kick this he heard he’s like yourself yourself so so feeling this and just I just I keep going going forward and give him this leg he tried to to make the scale kick and just catch him uh him on this movement and throw him down so I just yeah expect this it was not so bad but it just bruises and you also have it in a fight like it’s okay and finally for me there’s someone like Tom aspinal uh interest you for your next fight uh yeah why not yeah I already followed this game but in London maybe we can follow him in another place and he he can’t do maybe U.S because he’s too much food in his uh Homeland and and and not so much in different countries so maybe uh we’ll do this in another place thank you congratulations on the win thank you it’s just over here oh oh it’s over here uh it felt tonight that out of all the non-australian or New Zealand Fighters you got not as bad as a reception as some of the other ones what were your thoughts fighting in front of the Aussie crowd oh I know uh I I I I I feel really good here in Australia like all fans was really welcome to me like outside outside the um outside of Arena so I I met a lot of people in Europe all these five weeks uh in three years like everywhere and they make picture with me so fans here really amazing I know like like and and there were people from a different uh Society like living from different jobs and different age they all know about MMA like it was really like a surprise me here and all of them want to make some picture and it was really nice for me so I feel great I understand uh that this is uh his homeland and everybody will support him so it’s okay but I understand that like for France uh one of us uh it could be good one I have to be bad today I was like a bad fighter but after fight everybody like uh I love me so it’s okay it’s just part of the sport and I feel I’m feeling good today it was absolutely like a good feeling there’s one for me over here was Ty better on the ground than you thought he was going to be as early on in the Jiu Jitsu exchanges he seemed to be said to have some improved defense on the ground was his defensive Jiu Jitsu a little bit better than you thought it was going to be yeah absolutely uh I feel uh that he like was a little bit expected some some Jujutsu movement and wrestling move into this fight so he can train and working on this a lot so I I I I saw this it was so I expected um that my ground game is here will be a little bit easy for me but he was really good really good good prepared to this fight in in jurisa game uh I tried to to did some like jokes in the first round and then earlier like middle or second but I can do this he was a little bit slippery and big or really strong and strong enough to defend yeah and it was good so it was good because it makes some sure for fans and make a fight a little bit longer so yeah I like it yeah thanks so much