- Michael Bisping criticized Sean Strickland over his viral sparring session with Sneako
- “The Count” speculates that “Tarzan” is trying to prove that he is what people think he is
Michael Bisping shared his honest take on Sean Strickland’s recent beating of Sneako at UFC P.I.
Sean should’ve just gone to the body
In the viral video, the former UFC middleweight champion mauled Sneako with some power shots, mostly in the head and face. Speaking on his Believe You Me podcast, “The Count” weighed in on Strickland’s sparring session with the influencer and said that “Tarzan” could’ve made his point by just going to the body. For Bisping, there’s no need to go that hard on the kid.
“I’m not talking sh*t I’m just looking at both sides of the coin because I’ve been in that situation many times… Teeing off on a guy like that, like Sean did against Sneako to the face with full power shots, you can break a guy’s nose, you can break his jaw, you can detach a retina, you can knock him out, you can cause a concussion, you can do some real, real nasty damage. If you wanna make a dick out the guy and you want to get the buzz and you want to embarrass him and you want to make yourself feel big like a big man or whatever, you could just give him a nice little body shot,” Bisping said.
“A nice little body shot right? Because a good body shot, boom! suck the wind out of him, drop him to the floor… and you can all laugh about it,” he continued.
Sean Strickland just gave Sneako a BEAT DOWN and bloodied his nose 😳 pic.twitter.com/LjdwL8gotN
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) February 9, 2024
Sean may have been trying to prove something
Apart from destroying Sneako, Strickland also had a verbal exchange with Machine Gun Kelly at Power Slap 6. Bisping linked Strickland’s recent drama to his UFC persona and concluded that “Tarzan” may have been living up to the bad boy “brand” that people have tagged him.
“I do feel to a certain degree, he’s trying to live up to that brand,” Bisping assessed of Strickland. “… He has become, not a caricature of himself because as long as I’ve known Sean, he’s always been the same way, but people have come to expect a certain type of behavior from Sean so therefore you get trapped into the cycle of perpetuating that myth, not that I’m saying it is necessarily a myth or a fake personality because it’s not, but you understand the point that I’m trying to make you know like when he threaten to kill you, when he threatens to kill Machine Gun Kelly, when he’s trying to beat everyone up and threatens to stab Dricus du Plessis, when he sees him and all the rest of it.”
Strickland had just lost his middleweight title to Du Plessis last month at UFC 297. He has yet to find a potential matchup but his fellow top contender Jared Cannonier is down to rematch him for a title eliminator bout.
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