After an intense and bitter structure, we are finally only a few hours away from Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland who throw down for the second time.
The rematch of the middleweight championship is the icing at the top of a rather boring UFC 312 cake, in which both champion and challenger dominate the headlines only during the fight week.
While MMA fans respond to their last countdowns on the long-awaited Rematch Down Under, which will take place later tonight, both athletes sent each other one last message.
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC
Dricus du Plessis 'Know' that he can break Sean Strickland on UFC 312
The favorite of the Bookie: Dricus du Plessis seemed to look pretty when he spoke with the UFC News crew after the UFC 312 ceremonial weightings yesterday afternoon.
'Still Knocks' won the middleweight title last year via a shaving decision about Sean Strickland, and the South African would like to give a more definitive and devastating stamp on things in Sydney.
“The biggest thing to take away [from the first right] Is that we are two boys who don't want to give up. I have to find more holes, poke those holes, and I have to break him off where he no longer wants to be there … I know I can let him break there. “
Du Plessis previously predicted that he would have TKO Strickland at the feet, but now he teased that he is willing to take the fight to the ground if necessary: “If we are in exchanges where struggles are needed, I am more willing to actually be actually to struggle and struggle as should be. “
So how does he manage? By winning every round every minute.
“The easiest way to say it and it's easier said than done, to win a fight, you have to win every round … For you to win every round, you have to win every minute … and for You can do it every minute, can you do it in every exchange?
“That's what I'm going to do to do, to win every round, every round and to win this fight as decisively as possible.”
Sean Strickland promises to 'take him apart for 25 minutes' in repeated rematch
While Strickland is still sticking to the theory that he was robbed of a title victory in their first fight, the former middle weight champion understands that there is enough room for improvement 'Down Under'.
“I just have to be a better man; I have to be faster. I thought I had won that fight, you look at his face and my face is the next day as light and day man, light and day. It will be a repeat of that, but my hand will be put.
“He is like AR – on a short bus, he goes full all the time and God damn it, I respect Him for that, but this time it is not going to work, I'm going to take him 25 minutes apart [and] He will bleed. '
Although he believes that he will put on a master class of five round and in response to Du Plessis promised to put him in the distance, Strickland argued that if there is someone who will probably be eliminated, it is 'still know'.
“Damn you, you know what, I think I'm going to try to put him out as if he's going to try to put me out. I will tell you what, Dutch, you are going to go out – if someone goes out, you will be. “
UFC 312: du Persis vs Strickland 2 goes down live in just a few hours; Stay informed of the latest news and the results on Bloody Elbow.
Comments