Israel Adesanya will return to the octagon next month to challenge Dricus du Plessis for ... matches and one UFC title fight, Adesanya finally defeated Pereira at UFC 287 in April 2023, reclaiming ...

Dricus Du Plessis has hard a time believing Israel ... We saw Adesanya in the same scenario last year at UFC 287, where "Contender Izzy" avenged multiple losses to Alex Pereira with a knockout ...

Prior to the Strickland loss, Adesanya knocked out Pereira at UFC 287 in March 2023 ... Alex Pereira unsure how Israel Adesanya does vs. Dricus Du Plessis: 'After we fought, he changed a little ...

The long-standing rivalry between Israel Adesanya and Dricus Du Plessis has finally come to an end. In the main event of UFC 305, Du Plessis defeated ‘Izzy’ with a rear-naked choke submission ...

PERTH, Australia — South African Dricus du Plessis took a flurry of body hits across four rounds before defeating Israel Adesanya by submission to retain his middleweight championship at UFC 305 ...

There will be no cries about robberies after UFC 312. Dricus du Plessis left no doubt who the better man was as he beat Sean Strickland more decisively than he did at UFC 297. Last year ...

It doesn’t seem as if Dricus du Plessis is especially confident that Khamzat Chimaev will make it to fight night at UFC 319. Undefeated since joining the UFC in 2020, du Plessis won the ...

The UFC Octagon returns to Australia this Saturday for UFC 312. The card is headlined by a pair of title fights, including Dricus du Plessis defending the middleweight championship in a rematch ...

Dricus du Plessis quietened his critics by submitting Israel Adesanya and defending his UFC middleweight title against one of MMA’s best fighters in Perth, Australia. The South African had ...

That fight card, UFC 312, is headlined by a middleweight title fight rematch between current champ Dricus du Plessis and the man he took the title from in January 2024, Sean Strickland.

Based in Rochester, England, Simon Head is a veteran sports editor who has covered sports for national and international outlets since 2000, and is one of the longest-tenured MMA journalists in ...