Teddy Atlas credits Sean Strickland ’s fundamentals for his upset win over Israel Adesanya at UFC 293. Strickland dethroned middleweight champion Adesanya with a unanimous decision win this past Saturday at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. Strickland dropped Adesanya at the end of Round 1 and was able to keep him on the backfoot for the majority of the fight. Atlas said Strickland (28-5 MMA, 15-5 UFC) sticking to the basics was his key to victory. “We all knew that obviously Izzy was the more dynamic talent here and a different kind of striker, almost one in a millennium,” Atlas said on the UFC 293 post show . “Almost makes you think about Anderson Silva, guys like that, with that kind of pure ability to make his own music, as I was saying yesterday.
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