Daniel Cormier Slams Sean Strickland’s Coach Over Comments Made After Middleweight Title Defeat To Dricus Du Plessis

Daniel Cormier has spoke out against the comments made by the coach of Sean Strickland after his defeat to Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 312.

Daniel Cormier Slams Sean Strickland Coach After UFC 312 Loss

The former UFC heavyweight champion, who is now a member of the commentary team for PPV events, was not pleased with Sean Strickland’s coach after the fight.

Typically, coaches remain silent and respectful after the fight, however, Sean Strickland’s defeat to Dricus Du Plessis for the middleweight title took a slightly different route.

Strickland’s coach, Eric Nicksick, was highly critical over the performance of his fighter and even described the display as ‘uninspiring’.

Strickland was looking to beat the middleweight champion at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia, to take the title from the man who ended his title run at UFC 297.

The fight failed to live up to expectations in relation to Strickland’s performance, as he failed to put in a performance after a close bout in the first fight.

Du Plessis dominated from start to finish and Nicksick was not best pleased with Strickland’s efforts – with his remarks over wanting to coach ‘world champions’ leaving Cormier perplexed.

Cormier said (Via YouTube): “The only area that I think coach Nicksick was wrong was that ‘I want to coach world champs’.

“Not everyone is going to be a world champ. You don’t get to coach all world champs. You coach world champions, you coach guys that might get to the Contender Series and lose, you coach guys that might get to an LFA title, and that might be it.

“You might get a guy that comes to the UFC, has a cup of tea, 0-2, and he’s out. So, you don’t just get to coach world champions.

“I get the thought of what he’s saying, but not everybody gets there. Make that your goal, but I don’t know if publicly you say that. But any great coach will have words for their athlete.

“I don’t blame coach. I think any great coach needs to judge their athletes fairly, but very harsh whenever they don’t compete to the ability that you expect them to because if you don’t, who’s going to? Especially in a world where most people are saying yes.”