Episode 692: Is Sean Strickland UFC’s best worst fighter?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Leisure, Sports

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

He did it again, brother. This crazy MFer Sean Strickland once again went out there in a championship fight he had no business winning and walked away with the belt. This time, he took the UFC middleweight strap off the previously undefeated Khamzat Chimaev. Strickland needed a little help from Chimaev himself to pull it off, as the now former champ fought one of the weirdest title fights we’ve seen in a long time, following up an absolutely dominant first round with a disastrous second round before bouncing back to spend the rest of the fight failing to utilize his best skills. Anyway, Strickland is now a two-time, two-time UFC champion, which leaves us all at a bit of a loss about how to even think about the guy. Now, Joshua Van and Tatsuro Taira? That was a fight. That was a fight right there. Plus, Ronda Rousey is gonna fight Gina Carano at MVP this weekend on Netflix. We’re gonna watch. Are you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the co-main event podcast.
0:10.9	And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.9	That's right.
0:19.2	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:24.6	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for the last 14 years.
0:31.6	We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally a wonderful world,
0:38.9	a mixed martial arts.
0:41.1	Man, I guess when it rains and pours, man.
0:43.8	We got a lot of stuff happening this week.
0:45.8	We're just kicking off a pretty big week in MMA.
0:49.4	We had UFC 328 over the weekend.
0:52.7	Fairly shocking results there, if not necessarily scintillating I would say
0:58.2	and then of course we are we're getting into rousey Carrano fight week the debut of most
1:05.4	valuable promotions in MMA so there is a lot of stuff for us to talk about. I think we might as well
1:13.8	just get started with it. It perhaps, Ben, what we learned over the weekend is that the best
1:21.9	thing you can do for Sean Strickland is book him in an unwinnable fight. Yeah. Because he seems to fare better in those bouts than he has any right to.
1:33.1	I wanted to kick us off.
1:34.1	We got a lot of listener mail, obviously, and a lot of it had to do with Strickland and Shemyev.
1:40.4	I wanted to start us off with this one that we got from Mike Stereus, who wrote in to say.
1:47.3	I like everything about that. Yeah, Mike, I do too. Subject line, best, worst fighter, question mark.
1:53.9	Okay. A legitimate win over Izzy after he's just knocked out Alex, then a legitimate, albeit close win over Chimaev,
2:02.0	after he'd just ragdolled DDP to cap off his unstoppable march toward the title.
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