Dricus Du Plessis is making it recognized he doesn’t need Khamzat Chimaev talked about in future UFC middleweight title talks.
Chimaev (13-0 MMA) was to struggle Robert Whittaker (27-7 MMA) within the middleweight predominant occasion on Saturday, June twenty second in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, ‘Borz’ pulled out of the bout resulting from sickness.
The undefeated Khamzat Chimaev has not fought since October of final 12 months when he defeated former welterweight champion Kamaru Usman (20-4 MMA) at UFC 294.
Dricus Du Plessis, talking on ‘Submission Radio’ shared he’d be intrigued to struggle Chimaev:
“I might like to struggle Khamzat. No person’s crushed him, and he was nearly just like the boogeyman of this division. However let’s be trustworthy: I used to be a bit upset that struggle didn’t occur. (I’m) not that shocked, to be trustworthy. I didn’t count on it, however you form of must at this stage – count on one thing to occur. I’m feeling sorry for the man. I do know what it appears like.”
Persevering with ‘Stillknocks’ stated (h/t MMAJunkie):
“I’ve been on that facet of the world of not having the ability to struggle and it sucks. Proper now, it simply doesn’t even make sense to speak about it. You already know, (Khamzat Chimaev) hasn’t fought one single ranked middleweight – not one – and to even put him in that dialog proper now looks as if we’re losing time speaking about it. He’s not within the run, and up till he proves that he deserves to be in that run, there’s no use in speaking about it.”
Present UFC middleweight champion Du Plessis is ready to make his first protection on the UFC 305 headliner on Saturday, August seventeenth on the RAC Area in Perth Australia when he takes on former champion Israel Adesanya (24-3 MMA).
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