UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland expressed his support for Sadibou Sy ahead of the latter’s fight at the 2023 PFL Championship. As a training partner of Sy, Strickland shared what gives “The Swedish Denzel” the advantage over opponent Magomed Magomedkerimov.

Sy and Magomedkerimov will be one of the pairs that will join the 2023 PFL Championship on November 24 at The Anthem in Washington, DC. The two will be part of the main card event by fighting for the Welterweight Season Final.

Sy, who has a 16-6-2, 1 NC record, will face a powerful opponent in Magomedkerimov with a 33-6-0 record. Nonetheless, as the main training partner of Sy, “Tarzan” knows what the Swede is capable of.

“He (Sy) would be the welterweight champion (in the UFC). Then I’d probably have to fight him for the middleweight belt,” Strickland said in his recent YouTube video. “Sadi is the best striker I’ve ever sparred. Proof is in the pudding, man. We’ve all seen your highlights… Originally when I sparred Sadi, I was like, ‘F*ck, this sucks. Why can’t I hit you, Sadi! This is bullsh*t.’”

The Swede will enter the cage with a seven-fight winning streak, while Magomedkerimov will come with a five-fight winning streak. This, nonetheless, doesn’t give Sy the advantage over the opponent, especially when Magomedkerimov already defeated him at the PFL 2021 Welterweight Semifinal. Still, Strickland believes Sy will dominate using his own thinking skills, allowing him to “understand” the movement of an opponent. 

“I’ll tell you what makes Sadi so good,” shared Strickland. “The f*cking man thinks, dude,” Strickland continued. “When he’s sparring, he just like, he’s calculated, he understands, you know? To be a really great standup artist, a lot of it comes from the mind. If someone gives you an IQ test, what do they test? They test you on reading patterns, predictability. When you’re sparring, all you’re doing is reading patterns and finding out predictability.”

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