Russian fighter Denis Tyulyulin, in an interview with , called UFC champion Israel Adesanya’s low kicks one of the most dangerous weapons in the fight against Sean Strickland at UFC 293.
American Strickland and New Zealander Adesanya will determine the UFC middleweight champion on Sept. 9 in Sydney.
Sean has pretty stiff feet. Considering Adesanya’s kickboxing, don’t you think Israel’s chances lie in throwing sharp low kicks?
— Of course, there will be low kicks. I think they dismantled Strickland during the camp. I can’t say low kicks are a serious hole in Strickland, but one of them. Stuffing a leg, a shin is real, because just hitting it with your hands is impractical.
– If they prick each other, then whoever breaks first will lose. Do you think Strickland can be mentally broken in a fight?
‘I can’t say, because fighting is not training. You might not like the way the sparring went: a few rounds didn’t work, you move on to the next slow one. In combat, a different mode.
There are fights when you see that a fighter is beaten simply because he gave up and does not want to defend himself. And it happens that a person falls after the first blow and closes. The boys say, “He shit himself,” and in the locker room you find that his orbital bone was broken. I don’t know how it will go in the fight between Strickland and Adesanya. Judging by the speeches of Israel, it cannot have such a thing. He motivates himself between rounds as well as during them.
It seems to me that Strickland will push, defend and “break through” if possible, and Israel will push. But Adesanya would be uncomfortable hitting him. Sean is very functional, doesn’t expend a lot of energy and breathes the same on the first and fifth lap. Yes, maybe he fought with non-supertops, but with the same Hermansson he calmly passed five rounds, ”Tyulyulin told .
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