On the UFC 294 Post Show, Chael Sonnen and Laura Sanko look ahead to a potential middleweight title fight between Sean …
will’ll focus on hamzat Chimay title fight at 185 is that next who do you think it will be absolutely Sean Strickland look one thing in this sport we will fiercely adhere to the rules that we make up on the spot but I do think but I do think this number one contendership is going to hold look there was no injuries there was no illness and as much credit as Kamar Usman got and he deserved a lot of it chamay have also accepted a replacement F uh fight on short noce that in many ways was a more difficult fight I don’t think that chamay is going to get anything but rewarded one part of the story that hasn’t been told at least not yet Sean Strickland runs a practice at extreme Couture he’s actually the head coach now it’s pretty intense they kind of warm up a little bit then they start sparring but either way when chamaya was in Las Vegas for four months he attended that practice every single day not only did they work out but it was in a capacity where Strickland was officially his coach at least for that hour of a day so I think that there’s an interesting Dynamic here these two haven’t spoke about the workout yet but I know there was plenty of witnesses and eventually that’s going to leak out to the audience Laura oh yeah we’re going to hear all all about it in the leadup to this fight I like this fight this is the matchup the fact that there is familiarity there I think think makes it very interesting but even if here’s the thing about gym fighting you get a sense of where you match up with someone but you don’t really know until you step into an actual fight you’re not fighting five full rounds with the same person in an octagon in front of an audience on during a fight week when you when you match up in the gym and sometimes people hold back sometimes people don’t like it’s not a 100% accurate picture but you do have an idea and this fight for hamzat shamayev is a really really good match up but Sean Strickland you know what he can do better than about anybody else manage a fight you know what hamzat is still struggling with managing a fight a five round fight is a very different animal that sea is very familiar with and he’s Adept at and he’s perfectly suited for hamzat will have to make some adjustments and if he does make adjustments is he the same guy if he’s not full gas from the start of the fight that’s what I’m curious about and for Sean Strickland it was a level up in terms of a championship fight against Israel osna but he is deep in experience on five round fights that went the distance and that is something that hamzat chimaya has yet to really acrew since being in the [Applause] [Music] octagon