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UFC champ Dricus Du Plessis: No middleweight can ‘overpower me,’ not even Khamzat Chimaev

October 31, 2024 1:00 pm ET UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis has no doubt he can match Khamzat Chimaev’s physical prowess. Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) turned his attention to Chimaev (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) after the unbeaten contender ran through Robert Whittaker for a first-round submission this past Saturday at UFC 308.

UFC champ Dricus Du Plessis: No middleweight can ‘overpower me,’ not even Khamzat Chimaev


UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis has little doubt he can match Khamzat Chimaev’s bodily prowess.

Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) turned his attention to Chimaev (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) after the unbeaten contender ran through Robert Whittaker for a first-round submission this previous Saturday at UFC 308. Chimaev’s energy and grappling proved to be an excessive amount of as soon as once more, however Du Plessis says “Borz” received’t have the ability to impose his will on him.

“Once I combat, I don’t know learn how to again up,” Du Plessis advised TMZ. “I’m going to go on the market and combat you. We’ve seen this with Khamzat, slowing down after the primary spherical, round-and-a-half, and I believe that’s as a result of he makes use of a lot energy.

“He has the wrestling approach, after all, however he makes use of his energy as a weapon. On this case, he has a gun, and I’ve a tank relating to the energy. There’s not a middleweight that’s going to overpower me. It’s not going to occur.”

Within the UFC 308 post-fight information convention, Chimaev was requested by MMA Junkie about Du Plessis’ grappling, which he immediately dismissed – however the champion issued him a warning.

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“If it’s Khamzat, you assume you’re sturdy, you assume you’re highly effective, you haven’t felt something,” Du Plessis stated. “And I can’t wait till I see it on his face as a result of I see it on each single individual I combat’s face. After they understand, ‘Oh sh*t.’ That’s the message.”

Du Plessis additionally defined his choice of pivoting to Chimaev over a Sean Strickland (29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC) rematch. Du Plessis claimed the middleweight title by edging out Strickland at UFC 297, a combat Strickland believes he received.

“I fully welcome the Strickland rematch. I’d like to get that end as a result of for Sean, he wants a win again, I want a end,” Du Plessis stated. “He doesn’t thoughts to combat boring fights like most of his fights. That’s why he has seven or eight cut up choice wins. For me, I wish to combat a man like Khamzat to throw down. Not say that he’s going to then jab for 5 rounds. Myself and Sean, it was an in depth combat, however there was little doubt in my thoughts that I received that combat. … Strickland simply beat Paulo Costa in a really boring combat as soon as once more, proper after our combat.

“Whether or not it was shut or not, it’s nonetheless a loss. Khamzat, they’ve puffed up this man for thus lengthy, however he hasn’t come to fruition. He hasn’t misplaced, however the combat cancellations and him being sick. Typically that’s out of our management. However he was the primary man to ever submit Rob, and he did it within the first spherical, and that warrants him leaping the gun on Sean Strickland for me. In the event you ask me personally, that’s a combat I might relatively need as a result of that’s a combat the folks need. It’s a combat extra followers need, and I imagine Khamzat is the subsequent greatest man.”

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