Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley goes with ‘wildcard’ Dricus du Plessis this Saturday evening in Chicago.
Emanating from the United Middle, UFC 319 will see ‘DDP’ put his undisputed middleweight crown on the road in opposition to undefeated Chechen monster Khamzat Chimaev in a bout that seemingly has MMA followers cut up down the center.
Because it stands, oddsmakers are nonetheless leaning in direction of Chimaev to come back out on high, with ‘Borz’ trending as a 2-to-1 favourite to go away ‘The Windy Metropolis’ with the 185-pound crown wrapped round his waist. However not everyone seems to be satisfied that Chimaev will get previous the odds-defying South African.
“I’mma go DDP simply because I hate after they attempt to force-feed a star, I hate after they attempt to groom any person into one thing,” Woodley mentioned in an interview courtesy of Motion Community. “You allow them to struggle. Allow them to kind out what they’re gonna do. And I really feel like there’s been lots of grooming of him, and there’s been lots of speak, and lots of hype. I give him his credit score, however I’mma simply play the wild card, I’m gonna go together with DDP.”
Chimaev and Dricus du Plessis are each unbeaten within the UFC
To this point, du Plessis is an ideal 9-0 beneath the UFC banner. An particularly spectacular feat when you think about that ‘Stillknocks’ has opened as an underdog in seven of these 9 fights, together with title tilts in opposition to Sean Strickland and Israel Adesanya.
After all, ‘DDP’ has by no means confronted a fighter as ferocious as Chimaev, main many to imagine that the Russian-born boogeyman will ragdoll his option to one other dominant victory contained in the Octagon.
Chimaev goes into his first UFC title alternative with an unblemished 14-0 file — his most up-to-date victory coming by the use of a teeth-shattering submission over Robert Whittaker in Abu Dhabi final yr.
