Dricus du Plessis and Israel Adesanya delighted the crowd with an intense faceoff ahead of UFC 305 Izzy talked about his motivation heading to his UFC return and his goal to beat guys like ...

Du Plessis, who won his middleweight title by putting over Sean Strickland sometime back, has been on a song. Putting up some impressive performances against Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland ...

However, Adesanya lost the title to Sean Strickland via unanimous decision in Sept. 2023. 'Izzy' then faced current UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis in Aug. 2024 and lost via fourth ...

Adesanya and Whittaker, both of whom have fallen to the South African during that run, have acknowledged the effectiveness of Du Plessis, even while being surprised by his ascent. "He's just weird ...

Nothing personal…[Pereira’s] aura? Gone.” After du Plessis defeated Pereira’s two-time UFC rival Israel Adesanya last year, Pereira teased a return to middleweight for a clash with du Plessis.

In fact, I'm not supposed to do this, but Dricus du Plessis, Israel Adesanya and the Jiri that just won - I thought they could've beaten Alex Pereira that night." ...

It was the second title defense for the 31-year-old Du Plessis (23-2) after defeating Israel Adesanya with a fourth-round submission on Aug. 17 in Perth, Australia. The first round saw Strickland ...

Du Plessis took the championship belt from Strickland at UFC 297 via split decision, and he successfully defended the strap at UFC 305 against Israel Adesanya last time out via submission in Round 4.

Du Plessis won the middleweight title by split decision against Strickland at UFC 297 in Toronto last January before defending it against Israel Adesanya by fourth round submission at Perth's UFC ...

The result marked Du Plessis’s second successful defence of the belt, after he submitted former champion Israel Adesanya in August. Adesanya, who was in attendance at UFC 312, is a former two ...