The South African beat a former middleweight champion in the same category in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in Toronto
25 January 2024 - 05:00
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Dricus du Plessis became an overnight national sensation at the weekend, winning the middleweight title in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a marketing business that promotes mixed martial arts (MMA), a euphemism for barroom brawling (sans the broken bottles and chairs). Du Plessis, 30, defeated Californian Sean Strickland, 32, a former UFC middleweight champion who once attacked his apparently abusive father with a guitar, supposedly to protect his mother. Du Plessis’s upbringing was more conventional: judo as a laaitie, then wrestling and kickboxing before following the money to MMA.
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A good week for Dricus du Plessis
The South African beat a former middleweight champion in the same category in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in Toronto
A good week for Dricus du Plessis
Dricus du Plessis became an overnight national sensation at the weekend, winning the middleweight title in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a marketing business that promotes mixed martial arts (MMA), a euphemism for barroom brawling (sans the broken bottles and chairs). Du Plessis, 30, defeated Californian Sean Strickland, 32, a former UFC middleweight champion who once attacked his apparently abusive father with a guitar, supposedly to protect his mother. Du Plessis’s upbringing was more conventional: judo as a laaitie, then wrestling and kickboxing before following the money to MMA.
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