{"id":392385,"date":"2021-08-17T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=392385"},"modified":"2021-08-17T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:23:09","slug":"luke-rockhold-sizes-up-stupid-sean-strickland-ahead-of-ufc-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/luke-rockhold-sizes-up-stupid-sean-strickland-ahead-of-ufc-268\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold sizes up &#8220;stupid&#8221; Sean Strickland ahead of UFC 268"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold sized up his &#8220;stupid&#8221; opponent Sean Strickland ahead of their upcoming fight at UFC 268.<\/p>\n<p>Rockhold takes on Strickland in an important fight at 185lbs on UFC 268 in November. Strickland has won all four of his fights since moving up to middleweight last year &#8212; over Uriah Hall, Krzysztof Jotko, Brendan Allen, and Jack Marshman &#8212; while Rockhold is returning to middleweight after several years away from the cage. It is an intriguing matchup between two California natives who are known for their entertaining fights inside the Octagon, as well as some of the things that both men have said outside of the cage.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2021\/08\/luke-rockhold-stupid-sean-strickland-is-effective-but-somewhat-one-dimensional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie.com Radio<\/a> ahead of UFC 268, Rockhold was asked to size up Strickland as an opponent. While Rockhold believes &#8220;Tarzan&#8221; is a &#8220;stupid&#8221; person, he also knows that he is a very tough fighter who is confident and who has decent boxing skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs stupid as he looks and as stupid as he sounds, he\u2019s effective. Probably because he\u2019s so stupid. He just comes forward, he\u2019s got confidence in himself, and he doesn\u2019t question it, and that\u2019s dangerous, for sure. I think he\u2019s somewhat one-dimensional, and being able to expose that is key. He\u2019s just tough \u2013 tough and confident. That\u2019s a big problem for a lot of people, so you\u2019ve got to take that confidence from him,&#8221; Rockhold said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to put him in positions he\u2019s not comfortable with and finish it. I think he\u2019s average everywhere. He\u2019s hasn\u2019t got a great ground game. He doesn\u2019t have great wrestling. Decent boxing. He doesn\u2019t kick much, but he\u2019s tough. He\u2019s tough, and he\u2019s not going to take no for an answer kind of thing. He doesn\u2019t have quit in him. You\u2019ve got to make him quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with the breakdown <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/luke-rockhold-criticizes-the-ufc-and-dana-white-for-creating-a-narrative-for-the-fans-to-want-to-hate-on-fighters\/\">Luke Rockhold<\/a> provided about Sean Strickland&#8217;s skillset?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold sized up his &#8220;stupid&#8221; opponent Sean Strickland ahead of their upcoming fight at UFC 268. Rockhold takes on Strickland in an important fight at 185lbs on UFC 268 in November. Strickland has won all four of his fights since moving up to middleweight last year &#8212; over Uriah Hall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":305299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10150,22456,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luke Rockhold sizes up &quot;stupid&quot; Sean Strickland ahead of UFC 268 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold sized up his &quot;stupid&quot; opponent Sean Strickland ahead of their upcoming fight at UFC 268.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/luke-rockhold-sizes-up-stupid-sean-strickland-ahead-of-ufc-268\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luke Rockhold sizes up &quot;stupid&quot; 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