Sean Strickland and Dan Henderson aren’t on the identical web page in terms of why their coaching partnership dissolved.
Up to now, Henderson has mentioned how the long run UFC champion’s trash speak at Group Quest in California rubbed his fitness center mates the incorrect method. Henderson mentioned Strickland was “too disrespectful” at instances and it acquired to the purpose the place the workforce parted methods with Strickland.
Henderson shared his account of the breakdown once more in a current interview on Mike Perry’s Overdogs Podcast.
“You recognize, he acquired in little argument matches with among the guys that thought he was going too exhausting,” Henderson mentioned. “Then he would log on and speak shit about him and he did it a little bit bit an excessive amount of. Simply extra socially, I didn’t care what occurred within the room. Whenever you ship it out to everyone to listen to all that shit, it’s simply disrespectful to your coaching companions, guys which are in there coaching with you that will help you out as properly. He simply did it too many instances, I warned him a bunch, after which lastly simply mentioned, ‘Hey dude, you’ve acquired to go.’
“However he was a very good coaching accomplice and I loved having him in there and appreciated having a man that’s in there that goes exhausting.”
Strickland responded to a publish on the Overdogs Instagram web page, disputing Henderson’s model of the story.
“None of that is true,” Strickland wrote. “I used to be Dan’s essential coaching accomplice for his final struggle. He retired, the struggle workforce fell off and when it was time to resume my membership I left… however he’s appropriate I’d make enjoyable of the struggle workforce consistently.
“They’d do yoga and skip sparring lol [Keith Berry] I’m speaking about you haha humorous factor is we’re each at [Xtreme Couture] and spar usually now.”
Strickland has developed a repute for making offensive and inflammatory feedback and can be infamous for his in-gym habits, whether or not it’s ruffling his teammates’ feathers or providing to beat up influencers.
That habits didn’t cease Strickland from changing into a UFC champion. He defeated Israel Adesanya for the middleweight title at UFC 293, then misplaced it in his first protection to Dricus du Plessis 4 months later.
Strickland admitted he was vulnerable to dropping his mood at Group Quest, however nonetheless joked it was due to his coaching companions doing different workouts apart from sparring.
“No bro, I misplaced it on a number of events when it was sparring day and 90 % of the struggle workforce was doing yoga skipping professional apply haha,” Strickland replied to an Instagram remark. “Large fitness center blowups from me.”
Although Strickland and Henderson disagree on why Strickland’s relationship with Group Quest ended, the 2 have loads of mutual respect and Strickland made certain to reward Henderson in his replies.
“Dan is the person although,” Strickland wrote. “And if he didn’t retire and seen what I seen with most the fellows skipping class to go do yoga he would have been throwing H bombs, too.”
