Dricus Du Plessis efficiently defended his middleweight title at UFC 305 and was referred to as out by the UFC’s mild heavyweight champion simply moments later.
The battle between Du Plessis and Israel Adesanya was very aggressive. Du Plessis struggled to take down ‘The Final Stylebender’ and even took some brutal pictures in spherical three. Nevertheless, finally, the tides of battle would change, and Du Plessis wobbled Adesanya in spherical 4 on his method to a submission victory.
After the battle, Alex Pereira posted an image of himself sitting subsequent to his TV that confirmed a victorious DDP elevating his arms, with the middleweight title wrapped round his waist. “Coming right down to 185 yet one more time,” learn Pereira’s caption.
Dricus Du Plessis scoffs at Alex Pereira’s callout
“I actually don’t assume Alex Pereira ought to drop right down to 185,” Du Plessis stated on the UFC 305 post-fight press convention (H/T MMA Combating). “If he needs to, nice, good. However then we’re going to listen to the justifications. I noticed Izzy stiff that man within the first spherical. I felt Izzy’s punching energy tonight. Izzy has nice timing, he’s quick, he’s lengthy and he has nice combos, however I felt the facility.
“If Izzy stiffens you want that, you don’t want to be in there with me, particularly not while you’ve obtained to return in there with the justifications, ‘Oh, I minimize an excessive amount of weight.’ That’s going to occur. All people’s going to say it.”
“Keep at 205, battle your battle in opposition to the No. 8 ranked man,” Dricus Du Plessis stated, talking on Pereira’s upcoming battle in opposition to Rountree. “Battle your battle there and luxuriate in it. If Strickland is the following battle, the folks need to see that battle — if that’s the battle that individuals need to see and that’s the battle proper now folks assume is the following greatest man, then it’s the battle that I would like. So let me deal with my enterprise, you deal with your online business.”
