Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-06-01, some good exchanges but not enough to get three stars: mma fight between Sean Strickland and Paulo Costa gets two (see our rankings of Best Mma Fights of 2024).Costa vs Strickland is scheduled for Saturday, June 1, at home. Prudential Center in Newark (New Jersey, USA), in a five-round middleweight bout (185 lbs, 84 kg); it’s on the bottom tab of Islam Makhachev vs Dustin Poirier – UFC 302. Watch the video and Rate this fight!
Sean Strickland’s record
Bjj black belt and former Ufc champion Mw Sean Strickland Join this fight with a professional record of being 6-28-0 (54% finishing rate) and he is ranked as No.3 middle class in the world.
In his last three fights, he defeated Abusupiyan Magomedov (Sean Strickland vs Abusupiyan Magomedov) and Israel Adesanya (ranked in the top 10 mma fights of 2023, Israel Adesanya vs Sean Strickland) but he then lost to current No. 1 Mw Dricus Du Plessis (Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis).
Record of Paulo Costa
His opponent, black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Paulo Costahave a record 14-3-0 (eighty six% completion rate) and he joined as No. 16 in the middle weight category.
He has won just one of his last four fights against Luke Rockhold in 2022 (Paulo Costa vs Luke Rockhold), after this match he lost to Robert Whittaker (Robert Whittaker vs. Paulo Costa).
In the number Costa’s best fight we recommend the 2019 four star fight: Yoel Romero vs Paulo Costa.
Battle card
Here’s the full fight card for UFC 302 (we’ll update it after weigh-ins):
MAIN CARD (live on ESPN PPV)
Islam Makhachev vs Dustin Poirier
Sean Strickland vs. Paulo Costa
Kevin Holland vs Michal Oleksiejczuk
Alex Morono vs Niko Price
Randy Brown vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
PRELIMINARY CARD (live on ESPN 2/ ESPN+)
Roman Kopylov vs. Cesar Almeida
Jailton Almeida vs Alexander Romanov
Grant Dawson vs. Joe Solecki
Philip Rowe vs. Jake Matthews
EARLY CARD (live on ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Bassil Hafez vs. Mickey Gall
Ailin Perez vs. Joselyne Edwards
Andre Lima vs. Mitch Raposo
Countdown – Preview the video
Watch the official video of the full episode of the UFC 302 Sean Strickland vs Paulo Costa countdown, a documentary to get a better insight into the lives of both fighters and how they prepare for their fight.
Full fight video/highlights
Below we will post a selection of the best videos about the match between Sean Strickland vs Paulo Costa right after the match ends. If you’ve seen the entire fight, you can rate it at the end of this post. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook etc. and are not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
Official Highlights – Spanish
Result
Who won the Strickland vs Costa match?
Sean Strickland defeated Paulo Costa by split decision. The score is 46–49, 50–45, 49–46.
Interview after the match
Hear the words of the winner or two fighters after their fight, here is Sean Strickland and Paulo Costa’s UFC 302 post-fight octagon interview.
