S. Sherk believes he has the experience and the credentials. Photo: Reproduction/Facebook @seansherk
The main fight of UFC 229 placed the best grappling and strikers in Ultimate inside the Octagon. However, Khabib Nurmagomedov managed to impose his game of pressure and grappling on Conor McGregor. At 3:03 of the fourth round, the Russian submitted the Irishman with a rear naked choke. A potential rematch between the arch-rivals has already been speculated. With this in mind, former lightweight champion Sean Sherk offered to train 'Notorious' in wrestling.
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“You can't learn to fight from a guy like Khabib who has been fighting since birth in a matter of weeks, just by training with a world champion. It doesn't work like that. The keys to winning the rematch would be to hire a guy like me, for example. Whoever is fighting style is almost identical to Khabib,” Sherk posted.
Sherk believes that only a wrestler knows the strategy to beat another athlete of the same style. Furthermore, he sees mixed martial arts as a confrontation between men in which planning and execution of game plans and evolution are worked on.
Sean Sherk won the lightweight belt by winning Kenny Florian at UFC 64 in October 2006. However, in 2007, despite the victory over Hermes França, he lost the title after being caught in an anti-doping test. Against B.J. Penn At UFC 84, 'Muscle Shark' had the chance to regain the belt, but was knocked out in the third round.
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“Note to McGregor
I'm not sure the McGregor/Khabib rematch will happen, but hiring a guy like Jordan Burroughs to go out and teach you how to fight is not the key to winning. You can't learn to fight from a guy like Khabib who has been fighting since birth in a matter of weeks, just by training with a world champion. It doesn't work like that. The keys to winning the rematch would be to hire a guy like me, for example. Whoever's fighting style is almost identical to Khabib. I've made a career out of using my wrestling skills to face opponents in a cage. I know how to beat guys like me. I know what works for knockout artists, catching finishers on the fly, stopping ground and pound from being affective and bottom escapes based on the same techniques and philosophies that worked on me. Mixed martial arts is no longer a game of style versus style. It's man versus man, game planning/executing game plans and evolution. The best athletes in the world see a loss as an opportunity to learn and evolve. I have the experience and credentials to prove it. I’m the guy to hire!!”.
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