UFCVegas76 Aftermath: What Makes Sean Strickland So Difficult via BlaineHenryTFL
set him up for a knockout. But Strickland, with his half-hearted Philly Shell/shoulder roll offensive approach, Strickland often gets in the way of oncoming attacks and parries them away.Part of the shoulder roll, as seen in the gif above, is parrying away strikes, not just rolling with punches like a lot of people think.
While this isn’t the most picture-perfect example of blocking and parrying from the Philly shell, it does demonstrate how Strickland makes life miserable for fighters who want to throw heavy. He has a good set of eyes on him and sees punches coming. He also gets in the way of these punches. Often they will land but not after some obstruction from Strickland, taking the wind out of a lot of the sails. Other times, he blocks them completely, as seen above.
Near the end of the first round, Magomedov scored a takedown on Strickland, something that is quite difficult as well. Magomedov had to shoot the double, get pulled up, and then go for the trip. There, he was forced to control Strickland only for Strickland to pop up against the fence. All of that effort out of Magomedov for 23 seconds of control time. Once Strickland disengaged, Magomedov was visibly exhausted and breathing with his mouth open.
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