Dricus Du Plessis scoffs at Sean Strickland's | MMA News
Heading into their championship rematch at UFC 312 on Feb. 9, former middleweight titleholder Sean Strickland challenged champion Dricus Du Plessis to keep the combat standing. Strickland urged making a ‘pact,’ a gents’s settlement to not take the combat to the ground.
“Listen Dutchman, I’m going to need you to be a f*cking man,” Strickland stated in a video posted to social media. “I’m gonna need you to stand up, not go to your knees, and we’re gonna need to strike like men. I know you like to wrestle and you like to f*cking choke people out and do some gay sh*t, dude, but I’ll make a pact with you, you make a pact with me that we f*cking stand up like f*cking men and we settle this sh*t like men.”
Du Plessis wasn’t concerned about making any pact and rapidly shot down the request. The South African thought the entire thing was ‘ridiculous.’
“Look, it’s a ridiculous thing to ask. If you want to make pacts about us just standing up, go do boxing,” Du Plessis advised FOX Sports Australia. “I don’t go into fights thinking I have to stand up or take the guy down. I do what the situation tells me to do. That’s what MMA fighters do. I’m comfortable everywhere.”
While the champion expects the rematch with Strickland to play out totally on the toes, if a takedown presents itself, he plans to grab the chance.
“100 percent, I think we are most likely going to keep it standing,” Du Plessis stated. “I know I have the cardio, I know I can push him back and I know I have the power to knock him out. So for me, that’s great. Then, if the opportunity comes to get a takedown, it’s a decision you have to make immediately. If you see the moment, you take it.”
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Du Plessis thinks Strickland talks a robust recreation however the pre-fight phrases do not match the octagon performances.
“He said ‘To the death,’ and I was ready for that,” Du Plessis stated. “You saw it, too. I went forward for 23 minutes of a 25-minute fight. But from him? It was jabs and teeps. Against Paulo Costa, next fight, same thing. So, ‘to the death?’
“Sean Strickland is aware of a lot of one-liners to sound robust, however I expose pretend robust guys. And as for him now again saying let’s make this pact? What’s the aim of a pact after we noticed what occurred the final time? Plus, I’m not right here to make pacts – I’m right here to win.”
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