Dricus Du Plessis promises to keep the judges out of proceedings in Toronto

Dricus Du Plessis will be out to empty his tank when he faces Sean Strickland on 20 January 2024 and has promised to keep the judges out of this contest.

Dricus Du Plessis promises to keep the judges out of it

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The UFC has had a few underwhelming bouts go the distance recently but Du Plessis intends to buck the trend.

“One thing that I think is going to shock a lot of people is the way I go at this,” Du Plessis told My MMA News. 

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“From the very first second of this fight, I’m going to go like I always do. The first opportunity I get, I will finish this fight. My honest prediction, there’s no way we’re going to championship rounds of this fight.”

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Du Plessis has delivered two ‘performance of the night’ efforts in the UFC to date along with a fight of the night from his submission win over Darren Till.

He has promised another thriller against Strickland in Toronto.

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“I think people know it’s going to be an entertaining fight,” Du Plessis said. “I’ve had great performances, and I’ve had not so good performances in my career, in the UFC and out the UFC. There’s fights where even though I won, I wasn’t happy with my performance, and there were (losses) where I performed great.

“But not one of those performances, good or bad, was not entertaining. I never had an unentertaining fight in my life, and with Sean Strickland, he’s had some fights where it wasn’t that entertaining. … But when you get me and you get Strickland, you get two guys that are not afraid to stand in there and bang. He doesn’t like to fight backwards, and I promise you I’m not fighting backwards.”