Dricus du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev have agreed on a date for his or her extremely anticipated conflict. In actual fact, they’ve agreed to 2 dates.
Final month, panic set in as rumors began flying across the web that ‘DDP’ had suffered a critical damage, placing his subsequent title protection towards the undefeated Chechen monster in jeopardy.
However after letting us sweat it out for just a few days, du Plessis emerged on-line to debunk all of the reviews and reveal that his combat with Chimaev is coming earlier than we expect.
“So we now have a date,” the reigning middleweight champion stated throughout an look on The Sias du Plessis Present. “However we now have potential of two dates. I already agreed to each. Lots of people are saying, ‘Is it this 12 months?’ Sure, 100%. It’s not distant. It’s not that distant. The announcement will probably be made quickly. Me and the UFC, we’ve recognized. All these rumors that got here out with accidents, I don’t know the place it got here from, it was ridiculous.
“I used to be like, OK, and I simply left it for like per week, after which I used to be like, ‘OK, everyone had their enjoyable, now you’re all going to look silly.’ We’ve already agreed on a date. That’s been some time in the past.
“So I’m simply ready for the contract, however that’s the combat that’s occurring. It’s going to be occurring within the subsequent couple of months, most 4 months. It’s going to occur considered one of today. Nothing is signed, however I’ve already agreed to any date. Any date that they gave me, I stated, ‘Cool. Prepared. Let’s do it.’”
Dricus Du Plessis able to show that he’s the best of all time towards ‘Borz’
DDP’ is coming off a decisive unanimous determination victory over Sean Strickland in February at UFC 312. Earlier than that, he submitted former two-time titleholder Israel Adesanya in The Land Down Beneath.
Chimaev has not but been formally introduced because the champ’s subsequent challenger, however after his beautiful first-round end of Robert Whittaker in Abu Dhabi, no different combat makes extra sense than ‘Stillknocks’ vs. ‘Borz.
“His wrestling is world-class,” du Plessis stated of Chimaev. “It’s phenomenal. However so is Israel Adesanya’s placing, proper? So is Sean Strickland’s boxing. World-class. Adesanya’s placing, world-class. His kickboxing document speaks for itself. This isn’t placing, this isn’t wrestling, this isn’t grappling, that is MMA.
“And sure, I do suppose his wrestling is phenomenal, however when the evening comes, it’s not about educating him a lesson, it’s about proving as soon as once more that I would be the biggest of all-time and doing no matter I’ve to to show that” (h/t MMA Preventing).
