A middleweight competition believes that Turnabout Fair Play is after some UFC 319 loser Dric Du Plessis told him in the past.
Saturday's pay-per-view in Chicago did not go to plan for Du Plessis, who had in mind as the first man who defeated Khamzat Chimaev to further build his estate and strengthen an ambitious urge to goat status on 185 pounds.
Instead, Du Plessis was dominated by Chimaev in the main event of UFC 319, in which the South African was barely able to set up each attack on a five-round game in which he was driven for more than 21 minutes.
'Stillknocks' enjoyed great success before he met 'Borz' and was unbeaten about a run with nine fights with a title crowns and two successful defenses. But those achievements did not stop with one of the old rivals of Du Plessis to mock him.
Brendan Allen rubs salt in the wounds after the first UFC defeat of Dricus du Plessis
Du Plessis never shuns away from garbage and trolls while he occupied the middleweight throne, and much of it was aimed at Brendan Allen.
Although the couple never fought and has often been far apart in the pecking order of the division, a short meeting made the South African on Kill Cliff FC made sure they would never see eye to eye.
Du Plessis is said to have joked about Allen's Tattoo by asking if the religious “1: 2-7” -ink was MMA record. Both parties have since been critical of the other, and the success of Du Plessis in combination with Allen's successive losses to Nassourdine Imavov and Anthony Hernandez gave the then camp the upper hand.
But he received a lesson in Payback Na UFC 319, where all made the best of his chance in a comment about social media.
“#Domined easy to talk when someone loses,” wrote Allen. “But man, to be completely dominated after talking, now that is funny.
“Finally, someone fought young and hungry and see what happened fun,” Allen to it.
Dricus du Plessis 'sacrificed' happiness to Brendan all that he could have used on UFC 319
Du Plessis ruled his all rivement only a few weeks before UFC 319, prior to the return of the American to the pay-per-view event in New Orleans.
The South African again mocked 'All in' for his losing run, while he joked that he would 'sacrifice' his luck to help all against Marvin Vettori on UFC 318 because he 'needed it'.
Allen defeated Vettori through a unanimous decision to bounce back from successive defeats and to record his first victory since April 2024.
Du Plessis, on the other hand, scribbled into a bit of luck that he could find after he couldn't set up resistance, because Chimaev ended his title line in a single way.