The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Daniel Cormier TV - DC REACTS to Sean Strickland & Eric Nicksick PUBLIC BEEF over Dricus Du Plessis fight

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

Daniel Cormier IS BACK with another INSTANT REACTION after Sean Strickland and his coach Eric Nicksick went back-and-forth following Sean's loss to Dricus Du Plessis for the title at UFC 312 in Australia. Nicksick says he only wants to coach world champions, and thinks Strickland's effort wasn't enough, while Sean responded by saying they're still cool but he may need to move on from Eric. DC breaks down the public comments and peels back the curtain as to what that means for Strickland moving forward. Plus, Cormier explains why he thinks Nicksick is IN THE RIGHT to be critical of Sean's performance in Sydney. #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's up, guys? I'm in Las Vegas. Obviously, we're doing the ultimate fighter. But I cannot stay away from my friends, especially when stuff going on in mixed martial arts, and especially when it starts to get a little bit messy. I like mess. I have stated on a number of occasions, and it seems like it's getting a little messy

in the Sean Strickland camp. First off, last weekend when Sean Strickland fought Drick's Duplice, I think he went in there with this idea that the fight was going to be different than it was, obviously. But when it started going in the way that it did, he had no plan or no pivot to try and change the way the fight was going. So it played out in the way that it did.

And it was a dominant performance by Drickland's DuPen. I see. But when you get your fighter gets beat in the way that Strickland got beat, obviously people are going to start talking. The world has turned on Sean Strickland in a way. That's a little surprising, right? Like my boy Luke Rockhold was talking about it the other day talking about, you say you're going to die out there, you better.

Dean Thomas, who I respect so greatly. Luke Rockwood, obviously is one of my best friends. I respect him greatly. Dean Thomas said he felt cheated. I didn't really agree. I thought that he really just got outclassed in that fight. Sometimes you're in there and sometimes things don't work in the way that you expect them to work.

Now, it was surprising for me to hear it from Luke and Dean. Luke in particular because Mike Perry hit him in the face, broke his teeth, and he stopped. And I don't blame him for it. I literally told Luke's ass, I go, don't fight this dude in bare-knuckle fighting. He's a psychopath. He's going to beat you. Luke thought he was too small.

Mike Perry ultimately won the fight. But that's not even here and are there, right? It's just, I don't know that the guy did not live up to what people said he was supposed to live up to. I think he really just got beat. And at the end of the day, sometimes we've got to simplify things and call a spade of spade. Durekis is better than Sean Strickland. We've seen it now in two fights. But that's not why I'm here.

I'm here because after the fight, Eric Nitzik, Sean's coach, Had some words to say. And again, when your fighter gets beat in that way, any great coach will have words to say about said fighter. And the vast majority of those words will be harsh. So I don't blame Coach Nitzik for what he said. He said, I think he needs to evaluate what he wants to do in his sport. Nixick. If it's just to make money, that's great.

Let us know. I want to coach world champions. So my motivations are different. I think that just to kind of show up and do that and not really back it up to me, it's kind of uninspiring. Look, I guess I got to walk that back a little bit. The only area that I think coach Nick Sick was wrong was I want to coach world champs. Not everybody's going to be a world champ.

You don't get to coach all world champs. You coach world champions. You coach guys that might get to the contender series. and lose. You coach guys that might get to an LFA title and that'd be it. You might get a guy that comes to the UFC has a cup of tea. O and two and he's out. So you don't get to coach just world champions. I get the thought of what he's saying, but not everybody gets there. Right. So to make that your goal, but I don't know publicly if you say that. But any great coach will have words for their athlete. I got to be honest with you guys, when I walk into the octagon Saturday,

because I have a relationship with Dracus, his manager. I have a relationship with Sean and his coaches. And I walked up to Eric and I go, it was the same fight. It was the same fight. I go and Eric goes, yeah, he goes. And you could see the frustration. You could see the frustration in between rounds. You could actually see Sean kind of walking away from Eric

as Eric was given instructions in between rounds. Now, if these guys have a severed relationship, you can't, it can't be recognized on the world's biggest stage. It can't be still on display when you make that walk. If the relationship was severed and Sean said something a little bit about it, this training camp was just hell. If that was the case, he shouldn't have been there in the first place. Because if you're not going to listen to that guy,

a guy who has coached multiple world champions, Al Jermaine Sterling, Francis Nganu, and so many others, don't bring him there. Sean was kind of walking away from Coach Nixick. So you could tell that there was a little bit of an issue. And we made mention of it on the broadcast. He just didn't seem to accept the instruction as openly as you would think he should. So I don't blame coach.

I think any great coach needs to judge their athletes fairly, but very harsh whenever they don't compete to the ability. that you expect them to because if you don't, who's going to, especially in a world where most people are just saying yes. Strickland said everybody was hitting me up about this Eric thing. He goes, Eric is a great friend of mine and he will continue to be my friend. Will he be in my corner? No, we have great coaches at extreme and I look forward to work with those guys.

Guys, that all sounds really good in theory. It really does. They're friends. I get it. but he's the head coach of that gym do you believe that when we were all fighting especially fighting at the top of the sport that we could pick and choose

and go well we don't want Javier Mendes in our corner he was the head coach of the gym I don't know that it works like that and if that's what the idea is supposed to be I think we're going to be seeing more changes coming out of that extreme culture gym and when it's that right when you have more changes

it's not the coach, guys. It's not the coach. So I think Sean needs to be very careful in this sense. And Eric's a great guy. So it might actually be okay. Eric might be a guy that might go, okay, Sean, you can work with other people. But I will tell you, in most instances,

you don't get to just X out the head coach and go about your business freely. It just doesn't work like that. He's the head coach for a reason. Eric's been at this gym for a really long time. they're going to have some hard conversations coming out of that gym. But ultimately, the fault is on Sean Strickland because he is the one that did not operate at the level

that his coaches expected him to. That's it. And that's why the frustration was there from Coach Nixon. I walked into the octagon, yes, and said that. Same fight. He goes, we didn't really change anything. And they were very adamant leading into the fight of the changes that they needed to make.

They knew what they had to do different. They knew and understood that the pace needed to be higher. Sean needed to be more active. But what happened in that octagon that made Sean Strickland go, I can't be more active. Ultimately, obviously, he went to the broken nose and everything. But up until that point,

round one was an extension of what we saw in round two, three, four of fight number one. It's the same thing. And I think that's credit to Drucker's duplexie. but I do disagree with you guys in this regard. I don't think he quit. He could have quit

and I don't think nobody would have blamed him. Would you guys have judged him less harshly if he walked away when he broke his nose? No. You'd have called him a quitter. So him staying in there and continuing to fight with the busted nose doesn't earn any good favor.

He was losing. It was three rounds to zero. This dude can do math. He probably reckoned I'm down. It's kind of over. now I've got a broken nose and he still chose to fight. So we got to be careful how we judge these fighters.

I know Sean can be a lot, but it doesn't matter when judging what he did inside the octagon. Hey, I'm excited about what comes out of extreme Cottero, because Sean's trying to bat it away. I just don't know that he knows it's much more serious than just going, he's my friend,

I love him, I'm going to stay in the gym but do something different. I don't think it works like that, especially when you're talking about the head coach. Guys, it's time to go film the Ultimate Fighter. Thank you for listening to me. Thank you for always support me. I appreciate you guys more than you would ever know.

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and the stuff nobody gets to hear. Listen to SportsSlice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. I'm Michelle McPhee, and I've been unraveling the strangest criminal alliance I've ever reported on, a Mormon polygamist and an Armenian businessman. Multi-million dollar house, Ferraris and Lamborghinis, private jets, a billion dollar fraud.

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