‘I paid my dues’: Sean Strickland calls for title shot after UFC predominant match win

For Sean Strickland, there’s nowhere else to transfer various than up.

The brash American middleweight earned the eighth win of his past ten fights on Saturday night time within the UFC Apex when he stopped Abus Magomedov in what used to be his fifth predominant match contest of his past six. And in a division which has reheated some old rivalries for most in kind champion Israel Adesanya, Strickland instructed the media — alongside with TheMacLife — on Saturday night time in Las Vegas that it is time for some recent faces at the summit of the 185-pound fold.

“It wants to occur,” Strickland mentioned of his title potentialities, as transcribed by MMA Fighting. “We know Izzy’s on f*cking repeat. Right here’s what the UFC mentioned, ‘The middleweight division’s stagnant, let’s acquire Abus in right here, he may beat Sean,’ and I’m devour, ‘Yeah correct, motherf*cker! Wait until you eye what occurs!’

“Every time they are attempting to carry new blood — the French guy [Nassourdine Imavov] I fought sooner than, I despatched him home. This guy, I despatched him abet. Every time they are attempting to carry new blood in, I ship them abet. Give me the f*cking title [shot], I earned it.

“I paid my dues. Give me that sh*t. I need the f*cking title. Don’t traipse me round. I took Imavov on f*cking three days’ survey. I f*cking fought this time. I paid my f*cking dues. Accurate give me the f*ckingshot.”

Strickland’s instantaneous title potentialities shall be influenced, at the least in portion, by the of this weekend’s UFC 290 conflict between aged champion Robert Whittaker and Dricus Du Plessis — but Strickland says he sees finest one winner of that fight.

“I feel Whittaker’s going to slump thru Dricus,” Strickland later added on the UFC’s put up-fight how. “Whittaker’s going to slump thru him. We’ve seen Izzy fight all people. We’ve seen Izzy fight your entire top guys. Let’s acquire some recent blood in there. Let’s throw some new meat at him. Perchance I’ve bought one thing he don’t bear. Perchance we rob it into deep waters, eye what’s up.”

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