A middleweight championship rematch headlines the UFC 312 combat card in Sydney, Australia on Feb. 9. Champion Dricus du Plessis places his belt on the road towards former titleholder Sean Strickland.
The 2 first fought at UFC 297 in January 2024. Du Plessis received the combat and the championship by break up resolution. Strickland has been relentlessly looking for a rematch from the second the UFC 297 scorecards had been learn.
Weeks forward of their rematch at Qudos Financial institution Enviornment, previously often known as the Sydney SuperDome, Strickland supplied to make a ‘pact’ with the champion to maintain the combat on their toes.
“Pay attention Dutchman, I’m going to want you to be a f*cking man,” Strickland stated in a video posted to social media. “I’m gonna want you to face up, not go to your knees, and we’re gonna have to strike like males. I do know you wish to wrestle and also you wish to f*cking choke folks out and do some homosexual sh*t, dude, however I’ll make a pact with you, you make a pact with me that we f*cking rise up like f*cking males and we settle this sh*t like males.”
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Du Plessis reacted to Strickland’s supply with a one-sentence response. “There aren’t any pacts between Lions and males,” he wrote on X.
There aren’t any pacts between Lions and males https://t.co/oLxMPwgqIq
— Dricus Du Plessis (@dricusduplessis) January 22, 2025
