“Not the brightest tool in the shed”- Josh Thomson confused by Sean Strickland brutal sparring with 205 pounder Dominick Reyes
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Recently, as to not most people’s surprise since he has that insane personality in the public view, UFC Middleweight Sean Strickland went on a hard sparring match on the fight week, and someone wasn’t impressed. It was former Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Josh Thomson that had this thought. In recent video footage, Strickland was seen sparring against former UFC Lightheavyweight title contender Dominick Reyes.
The fight happening this weekend is a middleweight clash between Strickland who’s #7 ranked UFC Middleweight and #6 ranked Jack Hermansson. Both are fighting on the 200th fight card under UFC’s Fight Night series that has been going on since 2005.
Josh Thomson remembers AKA gym talent that went futile after watching Sean Strickland sparring video
Thomson alongside his co-host, retired and first MMA referee John McCarthy for their podcast Weighing In, weighed personally on seeing the sparring footage between Strickland and Reyes.
“He’s [Strickland] sparring with Dominick Reyes,” says Thomson “And they’re sparring with little gloves and they’re going hard I believe and someone said like ‘I can’t believe they’re sparring like this,’ like a week before the fight and I am like man, little gloves with someone like you know who’s 205 lbs [Reyes] and he is 185 pounder and this doesn’t make sense.
But from what I understand, he’s not the brightest tool in the shed either,“ continued Thomson “So it’s just whatever. I mean… I’ve been in the gym with some guys that were really top like top prospects that we had coming. They got knocked out real bad in the training because they were going hard… and we never saw those guys again, we saw [some of] them but they just came back and forth…” Thomson concludes.
What do you make of Josh Thomson talking critically about Sean Strickland’s recent video of him doing hard sparing against former UFC lightweight title contender Dominick Reyes? Do you think fighters should be strictly restricted from going to any sparring a week before the fight? Or should we leave it to a fighter’s durability based on which it’s his personal choice whether to spar during fight week or not?
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