Forward of his return at UFC Saudi Arabia this weekend, Michael Venom Web page has dismissed the skillset of present middleweight kingpin, Dricus du Plesis — claiming past being a “tough guy”, the South African gold holder is way from particular.
Web page, a former Bellator MMA title challenger, makes his third Octagon look this weekend in Riyadh, co-headlining the promotion’s return to the area in a high-stakes pairing with the highly-touted, Shara Magomedov.
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And making an impromptu middleweight transfer, British striker, Web page has been sidelined since final summer season, the place he featured at UFC 303 throughout Worldwide Struggle Week, struggling a one-sided unanimous resolution loss to Irish contender, Ian Garry.
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Debuting within the Octagon after years of hypothesis in April of final yr, London Shootfighters star, Web page turned in his personal dominant unanimous judging win over veteran challenger, Kevin Holland.
Michael Venom Web page calls into query Dricus du Plessis’ potential
Nonetheless, forward of his mark in middleweight waters, Web page has questioned the flexibility of Pretoria native, du Plessis — claiming the present divisional kingpin is way from particular.
“When I look at DDP [Dricus du Plessis], I… I don’t — I’ve never looked at him and thought anything special of him,” Michael Venom Web page advised Inside Preventing throughout a current interview forward of his return at UFC Struggle Night time Saudi Arabia. “However he at all times appears to simply win.
“One thing he just knows how to do is scrape out the win, regardless of how he performed,” Michael Venom Web page defined. “Because I’ve seen him do some technically really, uh, bad things during the fight. But still, like I said, he just knows how. He’s just a tough guy. He just knows how to grind out the result.”
