The answer to every of those questions is No
Essentially, to say Strickland was "lucky" is like taking away the credit he deserves. He put in a lot of hard work and executed an effective tactic. Out of his last 11 fights he only lost to Pereira, who later won 2 belts.
Anyhow, here's the video from the press conference. Sean did not disappoint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsQYhhAlu7o&t
And here's Dricus' one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0pZmBxUL0
For me, luck is in every one of us, those fighters can not be aware that a punch is coming so they are unaware that they dodge it, in some cases there are kinds of things that might happen, but I get your point Strickland and for sure other fighters didn't train this much just to win the fight with luck but there is a contribution of some sort for sure we could say there is an element of hard work and luck for sure, but all idea is correct and have surely there is no wrong answer to it,
Adesanya was really lucky to win against Pereira. Overall, Pereira was dominating the match but Adesanya got a super lucky moment and a very lucky shot and knocked him out. Yes, Adesanya won it but we didn't see him dominating the match. Then we saw a very weak Adesanya against Stickland, Adesanya who was doing nothing in the octagon. Current Adesanya can't beat not only Stickland but many other fighters but old Adesanya can do it for sure.
That is quite true, for sure Israel Adesanya did act a possum thinking that Pereira was punching and pressuring him in the corner but Adesanya was waiting for the right opportunity to strike back, and from that position, he surely unleashed that fury that he had on Pereira and from that Alex Pereira didn't do much from this fight and I think let us not argue anymore that there isn't an element of Luck and hard work in that one as for sure Adesanya is lucky in landing that punch that could knock out Pereira, and for sure hard work honed that hand to be that devastatingly damaging,
And that's why Adesanya just took an indefinite vacation since he doesn't want a rematch with Alex. Whoever wins will fight anyway will fight Alex
so if it's Seam, he will face Alex once again. I don't know if he could trash talk still, Alex wouldn't even understand what he's saying, it could be a dilemma for Sean unless he wants to fight Alex again.
Sean will lose this fight. DDP has the cardio of a horse. This is gonna be a striker vs striker which Sean may only be on in his defence at all time.
so if it's Seam, he will face Alex once again. I don't know if he could trash talk still, Alex wouldn't even understand what he's saying, it could be a dilemma for Sean unless he wants to fight Alex again.
Sean will lose this fight. DDP has the cardio of a horse. This is gonna be a striker vs striker which Sean may only be on in his defence at all time.
That will be an interesting fight for sure as we all know that Alex Pereira after a title defense for the belt might return to get the belt from the middleweight division so even if they have good terms with Pereira and Texeira because they have helped Sean Strickland trained with his sparring sessions, they will eventually needs to fight but if Dricus Du Plessis did won this one, or maybe Strickland will let him take the belt, so that Pereira would target Dricus instead, but let's just wait this is really interesting,