Jared Cannonier has no thought who wins between Dricus Du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev, however he’ll positively tune in to seek out out.
Following Du Plessis’ dominant unanimous choice victory over Sean Strickland at UFC 312, all indicators level to ‘DDP’ placing his middleweight gold on the road towards the undefeated Chechen monster someday in 2025.
Thus far, virtually everybody contained in the MMA bubble has picked a facet, however Cannonier simply can’t carry himself to decide on one over the opposite.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that I—I simply can’t not decide fights, you recognize what I imply? It’s simply—it’s nothing—it’s not one thing that I ever preferred doing,” Cannonier informed Helen Yee forward of his return to the Octagon. “Each of these guys have instruments, and I’m certain they’re each going to make use of their instruments to the very best of their capacity. The query is, who’s going to be the one to prevail? I don’t know.”
Initially, Chimaev opened as a 2-to-1 favourite to come back out on high in a possible conflict with Du Plessis. Nonetheless, these odds have shifted considerably in only a matter of days with ‘DDP’ now sitting on many sportsbooks as a slight +150 underdog.
Jared Cannonier meets ‘Robocop’ in middleweight headliner contained in the APEX
As for Jared Cannonier, the ‘Killa Gorilla’ has larger issues to give attention to. Like getting again into the win column when he steps again contained in the Octagon this Saturday evening (Feb. 15). After arising quick in his final two outings towards Nassourdine Imavov and Caio Borralho, Cannonier will take a look at his mettle towards Brazilian knockout artist Gregory Rodrigues inside The APEX.
‘Robocop’ rides into his first Battle Evening headliner on a three-fight win streak, together with back-to-back KOs towards Denis Tiuliulin and Brad Tavares. In July, he picked up his seventh profession win below the UFC banner by way of a unanimous choice W over Christian Leroy Duncan.
Because it stands, Rodrigues just isn’t ranked within the middleweight division, however a win over Cannonier would seemingly thrust him into the division’s high 10 and make him an immediate title contender.
