Sean Strickland says he is going to mix things up after losing to Dricus du Plessis in Australia last weekend.

Former middleweight champ Strickland was decisively outpointed by South African champion Du Plessis in the UFC 312 main event in what was his second loss to his rival in the span of a little more than a year. And ahead of his next bout, whenever that may come, Strickland says he is going to switch things up in camp as announced in a video posted to social media in the aftermath of his UFC 312 coach Eric Nicksick’s recent appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show in which he was critical of what he saw as his fighter’s “uninspired” performance in the cage.

“He’s a friend of mine and he’s going to continue to be a friend of mine. Will he probably be in my corner? Probably not. We have so many great guys at Xtreme, Nate, Ray Sefo, we have so many savages that I would love to corner me.

“But that entire fight camp was just a struggle. It was a f*cking struggle. We all have excuses as to why we didn’t win or why we won and we shouldn’t have won. We all f*cking have excuses and they don’t f*cking matter. The only reason I’m doing this video is Eric had to go do a f*cking podcast and become an influencer so I’ve got to be like kind of explain myself.”

Strickland elaborated further, saying that he experienced a broken bone in the lead-up to the fight as well as admitting to the staph infection which prompted a mini media frenzy ahead of the bout.

“But that entire fight camp was just a struggle. It was a f*cking struggle. We all have excuses as to why we didn’t win or why we won and we shouldn’t have won. We all f*cking have excuses and they don’t f*cking matter. The only reason I’m doing this video is Eric had to go do a f*cking podcast and become an influencer so I’ve got to be like kind of explain myself.

“But all camp this is just in the back of your head and you just keep telling yourself ‘I’m f*cking good’ and I think this is what all men do,” Strickland said. “All men do this. You look in the mirror and even though you’re not good, you’re like ‘I’m f*cking good, you’re a f*cking man, you sack up.’

“But all camp whether it be the staph infection, the broken arm, having to get a visa that didn’t get approved until a week [before], not being able to get cornermen out there. This entire camp was a struggle of I’m not good but me looking in a mirror and saying ‘sack up.’”