Former UFC middleweight champion Drikas du Plessis shares his ideas on the present state of the division.
As , Doricas du Plessis is at present one of many high middleweight fighters in blended martial arts. Nonetheless, he’s not the UFC champion after shedding a reasonably one-sided struggle to Khamzat Chimaev earlier this yr.
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Since then, many have puzzled what the title image will appear like at 185 kilos sooner or later. Whereas Chimaev is the champion, du Plessis will want no less than a number of extra wins earlier than he can consider difficult for gold once more.
In a current interview, du Plessis detailed his ideas on the present large names within the middleweight division.
Du Plessis considers middleweight division
“Imavov is aiming for the title,” du Plessis instructed Battle Forecast. “I believe the one factor that basically is smart proper now could be Imavov going for the belt. However I believe it may be an attention-grabbing struggle. I believe Khamzat will win that struggle for certain.”
“And as for myself, I am not so certain. The entire division is a large number. When Imavov and Kaio struggle, these two come up as potential contenders and the winner turns into the contender. Not an important struggle, in my view. These two stood there and had their moments to shine. I fee Caio Boralho and I picked him to win that struggle, however he did not present up that night time.”
“He simply did not present up. Properly accomplished to Imavov for profitable that struggle, he did what he was purported to do, however proper now we do not have guys who’re profitable persistently, and that is the issue. How do you decide a candidate? There are guys who’ve two nice fights and one dangerous struggle. There are loads of fighters who’re inconsistent, however are good. Simply constant. I am glad it is not my job to choose the fights.”
“I believe shedding Reinier de Ridder has, in a approach, derailed the scenario,” du Plessis stated. “You may inform he did not look fairly equal in that struggle. I fee him. I believe he is an important fighter. A gritty fighter. A scrappy fighter, and I like that model. However I may see that he was flat in that struggle. I believe he in all probability fought an excessive amount of and dropped weight too usually. Slicing weight is one factor, however dropping weight that always makes it troublesome for an enormous man like him.”
“Then in fact there’s the Hernandez and de Ridder fights. That will have been an important match, an important match,” du Plessis stated. “I heard Strickland say he will struggle Hernandez. It should be an important struggle as a result of it is one factor for Strickland to go down and it is one other factor to maintain him there. He is actually good at that.”
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