Sean Strickland and Dan Henderson aren’t on the identical web page relating to why their coaching partnership dissolved.
Up to now, Henderson has mentioned how the long run UFC champion’s trash discuss at Group Quest in California rubbed his fitness center mates the fallacious manner. Henderson stated Strickland was “too disrespectful” at instances and it received to the purpose the place the staff parted methods with Strickland.
Henderson shared his account of the breakdown once more in a latest interview on Mike Perry’s Overdogs Podcast.
“You recognize, he received in little argument matches with a few of the guys that thought he was going too onerous,” Henderson stated. “Then he would go browsing and discuss shit about him and he did it somewhat bit an excessive amount of. Simply extra socially, I didn’t care what occurred within the room. If you ship it out to all people to listen to all that shit, it’s simply disrespectful in your coaching companions, guys which might be 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 stated, ‘Hey dude, you’ve received to go.’
“However he was a great coaching accomplice and I loved having him in there and favored having a man that’s in there that goes onerous.”
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 principal coaching accomplice for his final struggle. He retired, the struggle staff fell off and when it was time to resume my membership I left… however he’s right I’d make enjoyable of the struggle staff continually.
“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 frequently now.”
Strickland has developed a fame for making offensive and inflammatory feedback and can also be infamous for his in-gym conduct, whether or not it’s ruffling his teammates’ feathers or providing to beat up influencers.
That conduct 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 liable to shedding his mood at Group Quest, however nonetheless joked it was due to his coaching companions doing different workouts in addition to sparring.
“No bro, I misplaced it on a number of events when it was sparring day and 90 p.c of the struggle staff was doing yoga skipping professional observe haha,” Strickland replied to an Instagram remark. “Huge 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.”
