Forward of his title battle return at UFC 312 subsequent month, Sean Strickland has urged incoming foe and incumbent champion, Dricus du Plessis to keep away from using his grappling or wrestling acumen in Sydney, difficult him to a strike stand-up battle of their re-run conflict.
Strickland, the present primary ranked middleweight contender, will return to motion subsequent month at UFC 312, taking headlining honors in a essential occasion rematch with South African star, du Plessis in one other journey to Australia.
And sidelined since final June, outspoken title challenger, Strickland most just lately returned to winning-ways with a dominant break up choice win over former title chaser, Paulo Costa within the co-main occasion of UFC 302.
Previous to that, Strickland headlined the primary flagship occasion of final 12 months, dropping a middleweight title battle loss to the above-mentioned, du Plessis in a controversial and heavily-debated break up choice defeat of their grudge battle in Canada.
Sean Strickland affords Dricus du Plessis stand-up battle at UFC 312
And set to share the Octagon for a second time in simply plenty of weeks, Strickland has challenged the Pretoria native to solely strike with him at UFC 312 after they do battle once more.
““Listen Dutchman, I’m going to need you to be a f*cking man and I’m going to need you to stand up, not go to your knees and we’re going to need to f***** strike like men,” Sean Strickland mentioned.
“I know that you like to wrestle, and you like to f*cking choke people out and do some g*y sh*t dude,” Sean Strickland continued. “But I’ll make a pact with you; you make a pact with me, that we stand up like f****** men and we settle this s*** like men.”
Himself most just lately headlining UFC 305 final summer time, du Plessis efficiently defended the middleweight crown with a shocking fourth spherical face crank submission win over common-foe, and former two-time champion, Israel Adesanya in a conflict ‘Downunder.
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