Sean Strickland is the new UFC middleweight champion.
Shortly after his bookie-busting upset of former 185-pound titleholder Israel Adesanya in the main event of UFC 293 pay-per-view (PPV) in Sydney last month, UFC CEO Dana White announced that he was going to fight with “Tarzan.” teased an immediate rematch. ” and “The Last Stylebender.”
A few days later I had a change of heart.
“That game just happened. There’s going to be a few games here over the next month or so, and we’ll go from there and think about what’s next,” White told reporters. “Contender Series” press conference. “Even if we put up the best fight when it’s all said and done, who’s injured, who’s not, who’s able to go, when, where…what we do next varies. factors are involved.”
And a variety of candidates are vying for the award.
That includes No. 1-ranked Doricus du Plessis, who was offered to headline UFC 293 but turned it down, paving the way for Strickland. He could now take a backseat to the Adesanya rematch or the winner of the Paulo Costa-Khamzat Chimaev clash at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi later this month.
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