Regardless of combating to a razor-thin and considerably controversial break up determination at UFC 297, Sean Strickland and new middleweight world champion Dricus Du Plessis will transfer on from each other.
UFC CEO Dana White seems to be cooking up one thing somewhat extra thrilling for Du Plessis’ first title protection even if even he admitted to scoring the highly-debated headliner in favor of Strickland. Although nothing is official, battle followers assume that the promotion might be concentrating on a conflict between DDP and former two-time titleholder Israel Adesanya.
It definitely is sensible given their heated historical past, together with a racially charged face-off in July following Du Plessis’ second-round knockout of Robert Whittaker. However whether or not or not it occurs on the promotion’s subsequent large landmark occasion, UFC 300, is up within the air as rumors proceed to flow into about Adesany’s well being.
DDP’s supervisor Daniel Rubenstein tried to clear the air on what has been happening behind the scenes, revealing that forward of Du Plessis’ win over Strickland in Toronto, he was knowledgeable that Adesanya can be able to battle at UFC 300. That in flip prompted DPP to name out ‘The Final Stylebender’ in his post-fight interview.
“Choice clever, I feel it’s Adesanya. I feel there’s warmth between the 2 of them, they’ve already carried out all of the lead as much as construct the battle. I feel [Adesanya] is who we’d all desire as a group,” Rubenstein stated on the Anik & Florian podcast. “Very actually, he wasn’t gonna name out Izzy if Izzy wasn’t gonna be prepared.
“I hit up Izzy’s supervisor like, ‘Hey is Izzy gonna be prepared? We’re gonna name out Izzy if he’s gonna be prepared. But when he’s not gonna be prepared for [UFC 300] I don’t need Dricus barking up the improper tree. We’ll name out Alex Pereira, he’s proper there within the Octagon.’ They advised me Izzy can be prepared, in order that was the callout he made” (h/t MMA Mania).
UFC 300 remains to be with no principal occasion
The UFC 300 headliner remains to be a thriller with Dana White lately revealing that they’re circling a few different options for probably the most anticipated principal occasion announcement of the 12 months.
10 fights in whole have been introduced for the milestone occasion on April 13, however just one title tilt (BMF excluded) has made its means onto the cardboard. That may be a strawweight championship showdown between Chinese language superstars Zhang Weili and Yan Xianan.
The complete UFC 300 lineup so far is as follows:
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