Dricus Du Plessis is perhaps one of the best hunters in the UFC today, but his skill is fading in the ring compared to his trash outside.
While the will of Chael Sonnen and Conor McGregor were famous for their big mouth, they never came close to so furious and, to be honest, unnecessary mean as Dricus du Plessis.
His loud mouth has put him in trouble, but also helped him to win fights against countless top candidates, while he entered the heads of some of the top middle weights in the division.
Here are three of the most brutal wild things that Du Plessis said to Jagers, including a few things that are far over the row of decency.
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Dricus Du Plessis made the foreground of the insulting father of Sean Strickland
Du Plessis used Sean Strickland's own traumatic youth against him in one of his most wild attacks at the press conference before their fight on UFC 297.
Strickland has been open about his traumatic youth, including his physically offensive father, who tried to exploit Du Plessis for their UFC Middleweight Title Fight.
Du Plessis has taunted Strickland by saying: 'Why are you so angry, Bro? Do you think your father has defeated you? Your father has no S – on me. I'm going to show you what it's like.
“Every childhood memory you have comes back when I'm with you there. The one where you are in bed at night, where your father enters and beats the S – from you.”
The trashwork worked clearly, while Du Plessis Strickland defeated in five rounds to become the UFC Middleweight Champion.
Israel Adesanya burst into tears during a press conference with Dricus du Plessis
Nobody expected the heated exchange between Du Plessis and Israel Adesanya to end in the challenger who stormed out of the stage in tears.
Du Plessis, however, clearly came to the nerves of the Kiwi-Nigerian hunter after he claimed that he had served servants, and even brought up the controversial allegations about Adesanya and his dog.
The press conference was to build themselves up for their UFC 305 fight, but Adesanya came out as worse for wear while he burst into tears when he spoke about his family before he stormed the stage, to the great delight of the UFC Middleweight Champion.
He then forced him to tap the PPV, so that the scenes at the press conference made funnier from the perspective of Du Plessis.
Dricus du Plessis laughed advice from Darren until afterwards
After Darren Till tried to give Israel Adesanya advice on how to defeat Du Plessis, who defeated him two years earlier, the South African laughed all the ideas that he knew how to defeat him in the Octagon.
In the press conference, Du Plessis stated how Till was “brought down by a boxer” in a fight after his boxing debut against Anthony Taylor, before explaining how he decimated on UFC 282 to their fight.
“I mean, the man was knocked down by a boxer,” Du Persis grinned. “Maybe try to practice what you preach, man, the man couldn't stop any Takedown.
“The man said he won two rounds. He didn't win two rounds – he's crazy. I finished him, stuck him, pulled him down, finished him in the third round.
“He says he won the first round … I hit him 61 times to zero, and there were still 20 seconds left. That is his crazy statistics.”
As we build to UFC 319, there are certainly more wild moments of du plessis for Khamzat Chimaev.