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Sean Strickland captured the UFC Middleweight Title with a unanimous decision win over Israel Adesanya at UFC 293.
The newly crowned champion wasn’t a part of Team Quest when he won the gold and Team Quest’s Dan Henderson has revealed why.
“He was at my gym for, like, three years,” Henderson said on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast (transcript via Alexander K. Lee of MMA Fighting). “We kind of had to let him go. He just kind of gets too involved talking s*** about people. I liked him in the gym, I liked him there, he was a great training partner. You need at least one guy in your gym that does that and goes hard and makes everybody else go hard when they’re going against him, so I liked it.”
Strickland now trains with Xtreme Couture alongside a host of other UFC veterans.
Henderson does believe that Strickland’s cardio will be his biggest advantage against whomever he faces in the Octagon.
“His natural ability is his cardio,” Henderson said. “He knows how to fight well too, but naturally he just has cardio for days.”
