Having already gone toe-to-toe with each fighters, Israel Adesanya supplied his prediction for who will go away UFC 312 with the middleweight championship wrapped round their waist.
Emanating from the Qudos Financial institution Area in Sydney, Australia on February 8, reigning 185-pound titleholder Dricus Du Plessis will put his gold on the road towards the very man he took it from simply over a 12 months in the past, Sean Strickland.
The rematch got here as a little bit of a shock to struggle followers contemplating how rapidly undefeated Chechen monster Khamzat Chimaev tore by means of former champion Robert Whittaker final 12 months. Even Du Plessis said that he’d a lot favor a struggle with ‘Borz’ over anybody else. Nonetheless, the promotion opted to present ‘Tarzan’ one other crack on the title after selecting up a carefully contested victory over Paulo Costa in June.
Adesanya, who has fought and misplaced to each Strickland and ‘DDP’ contained in the Octagon, not too long ago supplied his prediction for the way issues may play out between the previous and present titleholders in The Land Down Below.
“I say, I say that Dricus wins that one, if it’s close maybe, or maybe it’s more decisive this time, it’s gonna be a hard fight for both men but I think I would give the edge to Dricus in this fight,” Adesanya advised MMAJunkie.
Israel Adesanya headlines the UFC’s return to Riyadh on February 1
Whereas the world waits for Du Plessis and Strickland’s sequel scrap, struggle followers will see Adesanya step again into the Octagon for his first non-title struggle in six years. ‘The Last Stylebender’ will headline the UFC’s return to Saudi Arabia on February 1 when he meets Nassourdine Imavov contained in the ANB Area in Riyadh.
Whereas the build-up to this struggle could not produce the identical kind of animosity and intrigue as his scraps with Strickland or Du Plessis, Adesanya guarantees that the struggle will produce the fireworks they’ve come to know and anticipate from the ‘Stylebender.’
“It’s always good to mix things up but again, this is just fighting. It’ll be pretty boring the lead-up to this fight for the fans who want like, that kind of stuff but the fights gonna be very exciting, that’s the sauce in this one,” Adesanya defined.
