{"id":394561,"date":"2022-06-28T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394561"},"modified":"2022-06-28T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:38:21","slug":"hes-got-many-screws-loose-israel-adesanya-says-hell-never-spar-idiot-sean-strickland-says-he-doesnt-like-to-hurt-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/hes-got-many-screws-loose-israel-adesanya-says-hell-never-spar-idiot-sean-strickland-says-he-doesnt-like-to-hurt-people\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He\u2019s Got Many Screws Loose&#8217;- Israel Adesanya Says He&#8217;ll Never Spar &#8216;Idiot&#8217; Sean Strickland; Says He Doesn&#8217;t Like to Hurt People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion spoke out about one of the most controversial fighters on the roster in Sean Strickland. Strickland is set to face Adesanya\u2019s rival on the same card that \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019 is headlining for international fight week.<\/p>\n<p>While going over the various fights on the UFC 276 card, Israel Adesanya revealed that he had no intention to spar with \u2018rotten apple\u2019 Sean Strickland. Per Adesanya, Sean Strickland\u2019s overly aggressive approach in sparring that leads to fellow teammates getting hurt isn\u2019t appealing to him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHiwI04xlSY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSean Strickland, he\u2019s a bad motherf***er. Like, literally bad, (a) rotten apple,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cHis standup, I\u2019ve seen him do more damage on YouTube in sparring than in his fights, put it that way. I\u2019ve seen his sparring footage and I\u2019d never spar with an idiot like that. I\u2019ve hurt people in sparring before and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh s***, my bad,\u2019 and I\u2019ll pull back\u2026 But I\u2019ve seen what he does, and he talks s***\u2026 He\u2019s got many screws loose.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some more Sean Strickland sparring footage <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cpAR1qEWiH\">pic.twitter.com\/cpAR1qEWiH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Behunin (@AlexBehunin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexBehunin\/status\/1446608210819891203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Adesanya recognized the irony of not wanting to hurt someone in combat sports but also explained that it wasn\u2019t his preferred method of operation. Adesanya clearly looks at sparring sessions as an opportunity to learn and grow, rather than asset your dominance and hurt your training partner.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/top-prospect-shavkat-rakhmonov-recognizes-colby-covington-as-a-the-real-deal-despite-crossing-the-limit-in-trash-talk\/\">Top Prospect Shavkat Rakhmonov Recognizes Colby Covington as a the Real Deal Despite Crossing the Limit in Trash Talk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhatever floats your boat, yes. But like, it\u2019s funny to say coming from our sport, but I don\u2019t like to hurt people, even though that\u2019s our job. I like to make sure they\u2019re able to come back the next day to do their work,\u201d Adesanya added. \u201cAnd also to give me work, because you need your teammates.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-explains-why-he-would-never-consider-sparring-with-rotten-apple-sean-strickland-hes-got-many-screws-loose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rlvg-nhYfhU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sean Strickland\u2019s outlandish interviews coupled with his antics inside the cage have earned him the reputation of being a loose cannon. However, people close to \u2018Tarzan\u2019 have labeled him as a jovial individual who is simply playing up a character in order to receive more acclaim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Safe to say &#39;sparring&#39; with Sean Strickland is intense&#8230; \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6MyT2b2l1\">pic.twitter.com\/N6MyT2b2l1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC on TNT Sports (@ufcontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufcontnt\/status\/1443618223522451459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whatever be the case, Sean Strickland is a polarising figure and it\u2019s not likely that Israel Adesanya is going to be warming up to him any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion spoke out about one of the most controversial fighters on the roster in Sean Strickland. Strickland is set to face Adesanya\u2019s rival on the same card that \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019 is headlining for international fight week. While going over the various fights on the UFC 276 card, Israel Adesanya revealed that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}