“It’s one of those things that I don’t know for sure because I wasn’t there myself, but I was told that before the Alex Pereira fight, Shawn was effortlessly moving Magomed Ankalaev to the floor,” Allen said in an interview with Michael Bisping. “He did it with ease – I heard it from a reliable source.”
Adesanya had earlier suggested that Strickland would want to fight him, promising to finish the challenger with a painful or choking hold, notching the first submission victory of his career.
As a reminder, the middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland will be the main event of UFC 293, which takes place on September 9 in Sydney.