Chris Curtis Says It’s ‘Absolutely Terrifying’ How Loved Sean Strickland Is | TMZ Sports

Chris Curtis Says It’s ‘Absolutely Terrifying’ How Loved Sean Strickland Is | TMZ Sports

Relieved man like it’s the stress of going into the fight uh enemy territory especially after having such a rough year last year man it’s a it’s definitely a lot to deal with so I’m feeling very very relieved right now that I’m not questioning like what went wrong again you’re the ranked fighter in

The matchup you’re above him so and you’re fighting a guy an enemy territory so you didn’t have a lot to gain but you went in there took care of business where do you go from there who’s next who do you want next I imagine it’s somebody ahead of you in the rankings

This time who knows man we’re uh we’re GNA talk to the coaches this week and figure things out um interesting to see how the Hermanson uh f for fight plays out that’ll be interesting but also you know we have been talking about I maybe going back down to 170 um with Buckley

And Gast them leaving the division I think officially the shortest like the smallest 85er in the division and uh it’s nice not having to cut the 170 but man everyone is huge everyone is huge and uh as you get higher and higher in those ranking you start running into

Those problems so I guess we’ll look at the fight we’ll see uh what’s on there and maybe what goes next but right now I’m not thinking about it man there’s a I just fought I got it out of the I got a win finally after like this a really

Rough year I’m kind of stepping away from fighting I I made some made the money that I wanted to on that one sit back hang out with the family I got a newborn I got Fellowship going on I got to get home to Ohio at some point to see

My son haven’t seen him in a while I’m gonna try not to worry about fighting right now like it’s I spend a lot of time being Chris the fighter like most my like most of my time is Chris the fighter so I think for a little bit I

Want to try to be Chris the dad and Chris the person I was gonna say because normally the question is how how soon do you want to get back in there but it seems like you want to take care care of your personal life deal with some other

Stuff be Chris the father before you even think about taking another fight yeah they asked me like oh we gonna fight the The Fluffy hernandes figh in February and like normally I’m like yeah like absolutely but now you know I think my coaches are kind of and myself even

Myself where all realizing that like at 36 I can do the camps but you know mentally it’s stressful for me physically running from Camp to camp the camp is stressful for me like I train full-time and I’m not a guy who like I’m not gonna go and be out of

Training for you know two or three months I’ll be back in training by the end of the week just get guys fighting so because I’m training year round and then I just hop from Camp to Camp to Camp I mean I’m grinding gears at 30 at 36 I’m grinding myself to the [ __ ]

Bus man so uh I think we’re all realizing I gotta back up a little bit and I give myself some time you fight you take care of business and there’s two fights in between I’m sure you’re back in the locker room take us in your mindset watching your buddy watching

Sean fight and then I guess first and formost for most did Shawn win there still seems very mixed bro I thought he I thought he I so when I watch fights especially my teammates fights I very rarely side with my teammates I’m always cautious and I’m always expect so I’m

Always kind of like when I’m doing a scoring I go against them so even me being pessimistic and conservative I had it 3-2 I I had him up 3-2 I personally think um the Optics of getting cut may have worked against them worse Cuts Cuts suck uh but I think especially

If you get cut like mid in the middle rounds later on the fight as you’re still bleeding in a close round even though let say you got cut let’s say you got cut the first round if you’re in the fourth round and you’re still bleeding it’s a close round and you’re still

Bleeding they’re gonna say okay well he did more damage even though that damage happened three rounds ago I think refs are just bad at differentiating that you’re human you know you go off your eye test so I think that may have kind of scored it again you he may have lost

Points that he didn’t deserve to lose because when it comes like a you know who landed more and effective striking I think he out landed him he touched him up you know Sean had a cut with blood on him but drz’s face looking got hit by a

Small car so uh it sucks that sucks I thought he won it uh he looked great warming up he was ready like this Camp everything was great man he looked phenomenal uh it sucks to lose belt by that and it sucks to win a belt like that so I’m really helping they running

It back to like get a more definitive answer because Canadian judging is interesting are you surprised at all how big of a star he’s become Champion or not he is becoming one of the you know most popular faces of the sport are you surprised how quick this has happened oh

It’s wild like no one we joke before but we joked a while ago like oh man Sean becomes Champion it’s gonna be crazy and then to see him become Champion is one thing but to see sha going from the Sha I know to being loved by feel like this

Week was wild in Canada seeing the amount of love he got oh it’s terrifying it’s absolutely terrifying you could say like you guys don’t get we’re at the uh press conference and somebody St us talking and the crowd’s like we love you Sean and somebody yse strickling tell me

What to think and I’m like that is a scary thing that like he’s that Lov people look it’s crazy to see uh where he is now compared to where I where he was when I met him so that I love I love it for him I’m so happy for him but this

Week in Canada alone made me realize I don’t want to be any more famous than I am where where do you stand I mean you guys are close and I’m sure you don’t believe everything that comes out of his mouth but you guys remain best friends

How does how do you tackle that you know on a day-to-day basis putting up with what he says what he says to you what he says to everybody body else I mean you don’t it’s funny people like me and Sean disagree on a lot there’s a lot of

Things I’m like nope I’m not going to back you on this one for one reason or another and that’s funny people would be like you’re a bad friend like no I’m a good friend I’m not a yes man I won’t be a Yes Man for anybody like I’ll call

Sean on his [ __ ] the same way he’ll call me on my [ __ ] like good friends don’t you know jump off a cliff blinding behind you but good friends like you’re a [ __ ] idiot for doing this and here’s why so I don’t have to agree with everything he says or does like there

There are some he crosses when I will step forward like hey we’ve had talks before about certain things like either a like you know this personally this like offends me or like this is me trying to protect you from yourself and getting screwed over but I don’t have to

Agree with everything he says like I’m I’m a grown ass man he’s a grown ass man like if you’re looking for a friend if if if you only have friends that you completely agree with 100% of the time like you’re probably a pretty shitty shallow person and I just whatever I

Don’t have to agree with him and I think uh and a way are like vastly different personalities kind of keep each other more centered but it is what it is like I he’s a [ __ ] grown man he’s going to say [ __ ] I don’t agree with I’m GNA say

She doesn’t agree with it doesn’t matter like it’s grow up people

TMZ Sports spoke with Chris Curtis fresh off his win over Marc-André Barriault at UFC 297. “The Action Man” tells us what’s next for him after picking up the W on Saturday in Toronto. The #14 ranked UFC middleweight also breaks down the championship fight that saw Dricus Du Plessis pick up a split-decision victory over Sean Strickland. Curtis believes Strickland, his teammate and good friend, won the fight and is hoping for an immediate rematch. Plus, what’s it been like watching Sean Strickland transform into one of the most popular fighters in the UFC?

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