February 14, 2025 • 9 mins
Daniel Cormier IS BACK with another INSTANT REACTION after Sean Strickland and his coach Eric Nicksick went back-and-forth following Sean's loss to Dricus Du Plessis for the title at UFC 312 in Australia. Nicksick says he only wants to coach world champions, and thinks Strickland's effort wasn't enough, while Sean responded by saying they're still cool but he may need to move on from Eric. DC breaks down the public comments and peels back the curtain as to what that means for Strickland moving forward. Plus, Cormier explains why he thinks Nicksick is IN THE RIGHT to be critical of Sean's performance in Sydney. #Volume #Herd
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What's some guys I'm in Las Vegas obviously, Uh,
we're doing The Ultimate Fighter. But I cannot stay away
from my friends, especially when stuff going on in mixed
(00:23):
martial arts, and especially when it starts to get a
little bit messy. I like mess as I have stated
on a number of occasions, and it seems like it's
getting a little messy in the Shawn Strickland camp. First off,
last weekend, when Shawn Strickland for Drinkers du Plus, I
think he went in there with this idea that the
(00:44):
fight was going to be different than it was obviously,
but when it started going in the way that it did,
he had no plan or no pivot to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Try and change the way the fight was going.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So it played out in the way that it did,
and it was a dominant performance by Drinkers Duplus. But
when you get your fighter gets beat in the way
that Strickland got beat, obviously people are gonna start talking.
The world has turned on Sean Strickland in a way
that's a little surprising, right, Like my boy Luke Rock
Cold was talking about it the other day, talking about
(01:17):
you say you're gonna die out there, yet you better
Dean Thomas, who I respect so greatly. Luke rock Ol'd
obviously is one of my best friends. I respect him greatly.
Dean Thomas said he felt cheated.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I didn't really agree.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I thought that he really just got outclassed in that fight.
Sometimes you're in there and sometimes things don't work in
the way that you expect them to work.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Nah. It was surprising for me to hear it from
Luke and Dean.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Luke in particular because Mike Perry hit him in the face,
broke his teeth and he stopped, and I don't blame
him for it. I literally told Lucas as I go,
don't fight this dude. Don't bear enough to fighting. He's
a psychopath. He's going to beat you. Luke thought he
was too small. My pary ultimately won the fight. But
that's not even here and are there right. It's just
(02:05):
I don't know that the guy did not live up
to what people said he was supposed to live up to.
I think he really just got beat and at the
end of the day, sometimes he got to simplify things
and call us Fadus p Drincus is better than Sean Strickman.
We've seen it now. In two fights. But that's not
why I'm here. I'm here because after the fight, Eric
(02:26):
knit Shawn's coach had some words to say. And again,
when your fighter get beat in that way, any great
coach will have words to say about said fighter, and
the vast majority of those words will be harsh. So
I don't blame coach Knitzick.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
For what he said.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He said, I think he needs to evaluate what he
wants to do in his sport, Nick Sick. If it's
just to make money, that's great.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Let us know.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I want a coach world champions, so my motivations are different.
I think that just to kind of show up and
do that and not really back it up to me,
it's kind of uninspiring.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Look, I guess I gotta walk that back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The only area that I think coach Nick Sick was
wrong was I want to coach world champs. Not everybody's
gonna be a world champion. You don't get to coach
all world champs. You coach world champions. You coach guys
that might get to the Contender Series and lose. You
coach guys that might get to an LFA title and
that be it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You might get a guy that comes to the UFC
has a couple.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Of tea oh and two and he's out. So you
don't get the coach just world champions. I get the
thought of what he's saying, but not everybody gets there right,
So to uh make that your goal. But I don't
know publicly if you say that, But any great coach
will have words for their athlete.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I gotta be honest with you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
When I walk into the Octa on Saturday, because I
have a relationship with dricus Man, I have a relationship
with Sean and his coaches.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I walked up to Eric and I go. It
was the same fight. It was the same fight.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I go and Eric goes. Yeah, he goes, And you
could see the frustration. You could see the frustration. In
between rounds. You could actually see Sean kind of walking
away from Eric as Eric was given instructions in between rounds. Now,
if these guys have a severed relationship, you can't it
(04:32):
can't be recognized on the world's biggest stage. It can't
be still on display when you make that walk. If
the relationship was severed, and Sean said something a little
bit about it, this training.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Camp was just hell.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
If that was the case, he shouldn't have been there
in the first place. Because if you're not gonna listen
to that guy, a guy who has coached multiple world
champions Al Jermaine Sterling, Francis and Danu and so many others,
don't bring him there. Sean was kind of walking away
from coach Nick Sick, so you could tell that there
(05:07):
was a little bit of an issue, and we made
mention of it on the broadcast. He just didn't seem
to accept the instruction as openly as you would think
he should. So I don't blame coach. I think any
great coach needs to judge their athletes fairly but very
harsh whenever they don't compete to the ability that you
expect them to, because if you don't, who's going to
(05:30):
especially in a world where most people are just saying yes.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Strickland said, everybody was hitting me up about this Eric thing.
He goes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Eric is a great friend of mine and he will
continue to be my friend. Will he be in my corner? No,
we have great coaches at extreme and I look forward
to work.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
With those guys. Guys.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That all sounds really good in theory, It really does
they're friends, I get.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It, But he's the head coach of that gym.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Do you believe that, when we were all especially fighting
at the top of the sport, that we could pick
and choose and go, well, we don't want how vir
Mendez in our corner.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He was the head coach of the gym. I don't
know that it works like that.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And if that's what the idea is supposed to be,
I think we're gonna be seeing more changes coming out
of that extreme courture gym. And when it's that right,
when you have more changes, it's not the coach, guys,
it's not the coach. So I think Sean needs to
be very careful in this sense. And Eric's a great guy,
(06:33):
so it might actually be okay. Eric might be a
guy that might go okay, Sean, you can work with
other people. But I will tell you, in most instances,
you don't get to just x out the head coach
and go about your business freely. It just doesn't work
like that. He's the head coach for a reason. Eric's
been at this gym.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
For a really long time.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're gonna have some hard conversations coming out of that gym,
But ultimately the fault is on Sean Strickland because he
is the one that did not operate at the level
that his coaches expected him to. That's it, and that's
why the frustration was there from coach Nixon. I walked
into the octagon yes and said that same fight, he goes, oh, yeah,
(07:17):
we didn't really change anything, And they were very adamant
leading into the fight of the changes that they needed
to make.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They knew what they had to do different.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
They knew and understood that the pace needed to be higher,
Sean needed to be more active. But what happened in
that octagon that made Sean Strickland go, I can't be
more active. Ultimately, obviously he went to the broken nose
and everything. But up until that point, round one was
an extension of what we saw in round two, three,
(07:48):
four A fight number one just the same thing. And
I think that's credit to Drenk is due plus C.
But I do disagree with you guys on that in
this regard. I don't think he quit. He could have quit,
and I don't think nobody would have blamed him. Would
you guys have judged him less harshly if he walked
away when he broke his nose.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, you'd have called him a quitter. So him staying
in there and.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Continuing to fight with the busted nose doesn't earn any
good favor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
He was losing.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It was three rounds to zero. This dude can do math.
He probably reckon I'm down, it's kind of over now.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I've got a.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Broken nose, and he still chose to fight. So we
gotta be careful how we judge these fighters. I know
Sean can be a lot, but it doesn't matter when
judging what he did inside the octagon. Hey, I'm excited
about what comes out of Extreme Contorto because Sean's trying
to bat it away. I just don't know that he knows.
(08:47):
It's much more serious than just going. He's my friend,
I love him. I'm gonna stay in the gym, but
do something different. I don't think it works like that,
especially when you're talking about the head coach. Guys, it's
time to go film the ultimate. Thank you for listening
to me, Thank you for always supporting me. I appreciate you,
guys more than you would ever know. Till next time, Like,
subscribe and tell you friends about my YouTube channel, and
(09:08):
I will be giving you guys, behind the scenes stuff
from the Ultimate Fighter as we get close to the show.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Til next time, Peace,
The volume. What's some guys I'm in Las Vegas obviously, Uh,
we're doing The Ultimate Fighter. But I cannot stay away
from my friends, especially when stuff going on in mixed
(00:23):
martial arts, and especially when it starts to get a
little bit messy. I like mess as I have stated
on a number of occasions, and it seems like it's
getting a little messy in the Shawn Strickland camp. First off,
last weekend, when Shawn Strickland for Drinkers du Plus, I
think he went in there with this idea that the
(00:44):
fight was going to be different than it was obviously,
but when it started going in the way that it did,
he had no plan or no pivot to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Try and change the way the fight was going.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So it played out in the way that it did,
and it was a dominant performance by Drinkers Duplus. But
when you get your fighter gets beat in the way
that Strickland got beat, obviously people are gonna start talking.
The world has turned on Sean Strickland in a way
that's a little surprising, right, Like my boy Luke Rock
Cold was talking about it the other day, talking about
(01:17):
you say you're gonna die out there, yet you better
Dean Thomas, who I respect so greatly. Luke rock Ol'd
obviously is one of my best friends. I respect him greatly.
Dean Thomas said he felt cheated.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I didn't really agree.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I thought that he really just got outclassed in that fight.
Sometimes you're in there and sometimes things don't work in
the way that you expect them to work.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Nah. It was surprising for me to hear it from
Luke and Dean.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Luke in particular because Mike Perry hit him in the face,
broke his teeth and he stopped, and I don't blame
him for it. I literally told Lucas as I go,
don't fight this dude. Don't bear enough to fighting. He's
a psychopath. He's going to beat you. Luke thought he
was too small. My pary ultimately won the fight. But
that's not even here and are there right. It's just
(02:05):
I don't know that the guy did not live up
to what people said he was supposed to live up to.
I think he really just got beat and at the
end of the day, sometimes he got to simplify things
and call us Fadus p Drincus is better than Sean Strickman.
We've seen it now. In two fights. But that's not
why I'm here. I'm here because after the fight, Eric
(02:26):
knit Shawn's coach had some words to say. And again,
when your fighter get beat in that way, any great
coach will have words to say about said fighter, and
the vast majority of those words will be harsh. So
I don't blame coach Knitzick.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
For what he said.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He said, I think he needs to evaluate what he
wants to do in his sport, Nick Sick. If it's
just to make money, that's great.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Let us know.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I want a coach world champions, so my motivations are different.
I think that just to kind of show up and
do that and not really back it up to me,
it's kind of uninspiring.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Look, I guess I gotta walk that back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The only area that I think coach Nick Sick was
wrong was I want to coach world champs. Not everybody's
gonna be a world champion. You don't get to coach
all world champs. You coach world champions. You coach guys
that might get to the Contender Series and lose. You
coach guys that might get to an LFA title and
that be it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You might get a guy that comes to the UFC
has a couple.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Of tea oh and two and he's out. So you
don't get the coach just world champions. I get the
thought of what he's saying, but not everybody gets there right,
So to uh make that your goal. But I don't
know publicly if you say that, But any great coach
will have words for their athlete.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I gotta be honest with you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
When I walk into the Octa on Saturday, because I
have a relationship with dricus Man, I have a relationship
with Sean and his coaches.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I walked up to Eric and I go. It
was the same fight. It was the same fight.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I go and Eric goes. Yeah, he goes, And you
could see the frustration. You could see the frustration. In
between rounds. You could actually see Sean kind of walking
away from Eric as Eric was given instructions in between rounds. Now,
if these guys have a severed relationship, you can't it
(04:32):
can't be recognized on the world's biggest stage. It can't
be still on display when you make that walk. If
the relationship was severed, and Sean said something a little
bit about it, this training.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Camp was just hell.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
If that was the case, he shouldn't have been there
in the first place. Because if you're not gonna listen
to that guy, a guy who has coached multiple world
champions Al Jermaine Sterling, Francis and Danu and so many others,
don't bring him there. Sean was kind of walking away
from coach Nick Sick, so you could tell that there
(05:07):
was a little bit of an issue, and we made
mention of it on the broadcast. He just didn't seem
to accept the instruction as openly as you would think
he should. So I don't blame coach. I think any
great coach needs to judge their athletes fairly but very
harsh whenever they don't compete to the ability that you
expect them to, because if you don't, who's going to
(05:30):
especially in a world where most people are just saying yes.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Strickland said, everybody was hitting me up about this Eric thing.
He goes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Eric is a great friend of mine and he will
continue to be my friend. Will he be in my corner? No,
we have great coaches at extreme and I look forward
to work.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
With those guys. Guys.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That all sounds really good in theory, It really does
they're friends, I get.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It, But he's the head coach of that gym.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Do you believe that, when we were all especially fighting
at the top of the sport, that we could pick
and choose and go, well, we don't want how vir
Mendez in our corner.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He was the head coach of the gym. I don't
know that it works like that.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And if that's what the idea is supposed to be,
I think we're gonna be seeing more changes coming out
of that extreme courture gym. And when it's that right,
when you have more changes, it's not the coach, guys,
it's not the coach. So I think Sean needs to
be very careful in this sense. And Eric's a great guy,
(06:33):
so it might actually be okay. Eric might be a
guy that might go okay, Sean, you can work with
other people. But I will tell you, in most instances,
you don't get to just x out the head coach
and go about your business freely. It just doesn't work
like that. He's the head coach for a reason. Eric's
been at this gym.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
For a really long time.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're gonna have some hard conversations coming out of that gym,
But ultimately the fault is on Sean Strickland because he
is the one that did not operate at the level
that his coaches expected him to. That's it, and that's
why the frustration was there from coach Nixon. I walked
into the octagon yes and said that same fight, he goes, oh, yeah,
(07:17):
we didn't really change anything, And they were very adamant
leading into the fight of the changes that they needed
to make.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They knew what they had to do different.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
They knew and understood that the pace needed to be higher,
Sean needed to be more active. But what happened in
that octagon that made Sean Strickland go, I can't be
more active. Ultimately, obviously he went to the broken nose
and everything. But up until that point, round one was
an extension of what we saw in round two, three,
(07:48):
four A fight number one just the same thing. And
I think that's credit to Drenk is due plus C.
But I do disagree with you guys on that in
this regard. I don't think he quit. He could have quit,
and I don't think nobody would have blamed him. Would
you guys have judged him less harshly if he walked
away when he broke his nose.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, you'd have called him a quitter. So him staying
in there and.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Continuing to fight with the busted nose doesn't earn any
good favor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
He was losing.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It was three rounds to zero. This dude can do math.
He probably reckon I'm down, it's kind of over now.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I've got a.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Broken nose, and he still chose to fight. So we
gotta be careful how we judge these fighters. I know
Sean can be a lot, but it doesn't matter when
judging what he did inside the octagon. Hey, I'm excited
about what comes out of Extreme Contorto because Sean's trying
to bat it away. I just don't know that he knows.
(08:47):
It's much more serious than just going. He's my friend,
I love him. I'm gonna stay in the gym, but
do something different. I don't think it works like that,
especially when you're talking about the head coach. Guys, it's
time to go film the ultimate. Thank you for listening
to me, Thank you for always supporting me. I appreciate you,
guys more than you would ever know. Till next time, Like,
subscribe and tell you friends about my YouTube channel, and
(09:08):
I will be giving you guys, behind the scenes stuff
from the Ultimate Fighter as we get close to the show.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Til next time, Peace,
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