Joe Rogan is not very happy with Sean Strickland. Why? Everyone in the MMA community may have now witnessed the infamous video of Sean Strickland really hurting popular streamer Sneako in a sparring session. Sneako has no professional MMA experience and happens to be of a smaller weight class too. But for Strickland, it was all the same.
What transpired in the practice cage was pure chaos and a one-sided sparring session that looked more like ‘Tarzan’ practicing with a punching bag instead. For Joe Rogan, it was all a bit too much. In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the UFC color commentator laid his thoughts bare.
Joe Rogan thinks Sean Strickland is a “different animal”
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In episode #2104 of The Joe Rogan Experience, the MMA pundit sat down with fellow podcaster and TV personality, Chris Williamson. Here, he ended up bringing up the wild clip of Strickland going absolutely nuclear on streamer Sneako who agreed to a sparring session with him.
In the clip, ‘Tarzan’ can be seen landing one after another punch on the head and body of an inexperienced person who ended up in the cage. To Rogan, it just didn’t make much sense at all. “He beat up that kid who’s a smaller than him streamer named Sneako which is not a good look,” he told Williamson.
“He beat the sh*t out of that guy. I just don’t know why he wanted to do that. It’s so easy for him to beat that guy up. . . Sean Strickland has you know, he’s got this f*cking man code and he believes in it. You’re essentially agreeing to let him beat the f*ck out of you cause you don’t really have a chance,” noted Rogan.
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And Rogan is right about it all too. Strickland is the type of fighter who would treat everyone similarly. Even Dana White recently told the press that you can’t expect Strickland to act in a normal manner around other people. This was White remarking on Strickland’s beef with popular artist, Machine Gun Kelly. More interestingly, Rogan pointed out that ‘Tarzan’ treated ‘Poatan‘ differently.
Could he do the same to the LHW champion?
Sean Strickland has previously trained with none other than the current reigning light heavyweight champion of the world, Alex Pereira. Rogan hilariously pointed out that Strickland was trying to go easy around Pereira when the two of them were sparring.
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Rogan told Williamson how Strickland opted to go for “light sparring” when he was in the cage with Pereira instead. He noted how ‘Poatan’ had already knocked out Strickland once at UFC 276. In fact, he was knocked out in the very first round of the bout.
So Strickland couldn’t give ‘Poatan’ the same treatment as he did to Sneako. The fighter really unleashed a barrage of punches on him even after a towel was thrown in the cage multiple times to signal him to stop.
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Is Rogan right about his opinion on ‘Tarzan’? What’s your take on this?
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