Dricus Du Plessis will gladly put Sean Strickland in his place, if vital. … Once more.
The final time round, ‘DDP’ scored a intently contested cut up choice victory over Strickland to assert the UFC middleweight championship. Greater than a 12 months later, they’ll run it again when the promotion heads again to Sydney, Australia for UFC 312 contained in the Quodos Financial institution Area.
Maybe much more memorable than their battle was an ungainly second throughout the UFC 297 press convention when Du Plessis had Strickland in tears after bringing the previous titleholder’s traumatizing childhood into their intense back-and-forth.
December fifteenth, 2023.
1 12 months in the past at this time, Du Plessis angered Strickland to the brink of tears on worldwide tv. #UFC pic.twitter.com/Xu5LD0jhlF
— 11 DAYS UNTIL DRICUS BECOMES 3X CHAMP👑🇿🇦🎯 (@JustinHerronUFC) December 8, 2024
Months later, Du Plessis would have tears streaming from the eyes of Israel Adesanya forward of their UFC 307 headliner in August.
Dricus🇿🇦 made Adesanya🇳🇬 cry on the press convention forward of their battle pic.twitter.com/MFFPEajTxj
— 𝗢𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗲 🔥🚀 (@unclescrooch) August 16, 2024
Dricus du Plessis refuses to be bullied
Regardless of his clear penchant for making his opponents emotional, Du Plessis revealed in a latest interview with Niko Pajarillo of Fox Sports activities Australia that it’s by no means his objective to be disrespectful or make issues private. But when his opponents resolve to dish it out, they higher be ready to take it again 10-fold.
“I just know my opponent inside and out,” Du Plessis stated of Strickland. ‘Now, with regards to me and preventing, that is my life. That is the whole lot to me. I do know the whole lot there may be to know.
“I don’t go to any press conference to say, ‘I’m going to say this, this is what I’m going to say to you to get under your skin.’ I give you the chance to be respectful, and if you try to bully me, try to be disrespectful, and try to be smart, I will put you in your place. And now, with Strickland this time around, maybe, you know, maybe that’s all he knows to do.”
