South African world champion Dricus du Plessis says that his UFC 312 title bout against Sean Strickland in Sydney on Sunday ‘won’t be going to the fifth (round)’.
Dricus du Plessis believes Sean Strickland has not improved one bit since their first fight in Toronto a year ago. Photo: BackpagePixEIGHT fights into his UFC career, Dricus du Plessis remains an unsolved puzzle for fighters in the middleweight division as the 31-year-old has remained undefeated heading into his ninth fight this coming Sunday in Sydney.
In trying to decode the South African’s fighting style, experts have used the terms “awkward” and “unorthodox” in an attempt to make sense of or describe Du Plessis’ fight style. The very same terms that they use to describe his fight style reveal just how clueless they are, and how unsettled they are by the often inelegant Du Plessis.
“The Sean Strickland we saw against Paolo Costa was the exact same fighter that fought me. There was literally no change. Believe me, I’m a completely different fighter,” Du Plessis said on Wednesday after a brief public work-out.
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