UFC Vegas 47 - Sean Strickland v Jack Hermansson

Sean Strickland Continues His Rise In UFC With Split Decision Win

The American fighter continued his rise up the middleweight rankings but apologised for a poor performance, which ended in a split decision.

He was rather tame, keeping his opponent away with his jab and landing some good shots of his own which ended with a bloody face for Jack at the end. He could have gone a bit harder like the last 20 seconds, but he was just showing a cool collected master class of defending punches and takedown attempts.

However, there has been outrage by some at the judge's decision as Strickland looked in control the whole fight. Jack Hermansson his opponent was mostly hitting air all night as Strickland stayed out of his range by inches, and managed to defend against all his takedown attempts.

It was only the last few seconds where the blows were swung, with swearing coming from Strickland aimed at Hermansson, in what could have been an entertaining brawl if it hadn't have come so late.

Here are the current highlights, the full fight will come when released.

This makes it 6 straight wins at Middleweight for Strickland now, however, the main fight we all want to see is next week at UFC 271, where Israel Adesanya vows to "fxxk Robert Whitaker up again" in their rematch.

This is going to hopefully be an explosive match and hopefully, Israel is still full of his usual stylebender confidence after going up a weight and losing to Stan the man, heavy hitter, Jan Blachowicz. 

Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya was bidding to become the fifth fighter to hold two belts at different weights but he didn't really put any bulk on himself and was the same middleweight fighting in the light heavyweight division against a man with a rock hard punch.

Let's just hope this has dented any confidence in him, everyone loses at some point.....