Dricus Du Plessis will gladly put Sean Strickland in his place, if mandatory. … Once more.
The final time round, ‘DDP’ scored a carefully contested cut up determination victory over Strickland to assert the UFC middleweight championship. Greater than a yr later, they’ll run it again when the promotion heads again to Sydney, Australia for UFC 312 contained in the Quodos Financial institution Enviornment.
Maybe much more memorable than their struggle was a clumsy 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.
Months later, Du Plessis would have tears streaming from the eyes of Israel Adesanya forward of their UFC 307 headliner in August.
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 purpose to be disrespectful or make issues private. But when his opponents determine to dish it out, they higher be ready to take it again 10-fold.
“I simply know my opponent in and out,” Du Plessis mentioned of Strickland. ‘Now, with regards to me and combating, 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 convention to say, ‘I’m going to say this, that is what I’m going to say to you to get underneath your pores and skin.’ I provide the likelihood to be respectful, and when you attempt to bully me, attempt to be disrespectful, and attempt to be sensible, I’ll put you in your house. And now, with Strickland this time round, possibly, you understand, possibly that’s all he is aware of to do.”
