Following the announcement of Nassourdine Imavov as the backup combatant at UFC 319, Dricus Du Plessis had an intriguing response.
In the main event of UFC 319, Du Plessis will face Khamzat Chimaev to defend his middleweight title. The match has been rumored for a long time and is greatly anticipated. Du Plessis joked that he would now be facing the Frenchman when Imavov declared he was the backup fighter prior to the fight on August 16 in Chicago.
“Guess I’m fighting Nassourdine Imavov now,” Du Plessis wrote on his Instagram story.
Chimaev, who has had to withdraw from or be taken out of fights for various reasons, is the target of Du Plessis’ remark. Chimaev has had three fights canceled in the interim, although he has only engaged in combat twice since September 2022.
Even though Du Plessis jokes that Chimaev would withdraw from their UFC 319 bout, it is hoped that Chimaev won’t have to and that we will get to witness this battle at last.
According to Drius Du Plessis, Khamzat Chimaev is not a boogeyman
After Khamzat Chimaev defeated Sean Strickland for the second time, Dricus Du Plessis started to make references to a battle with him.
But according to Du Plessis, Chiamev is no longer the boogeyman that people once thought him to be.
“People think of Khamzat as this boogeyman. That’s a fact. I don’t. I don’t see that. For me, I only see one thing, and that’s the potential to do good to my legacy. The potential to make my legacy even better,” Du Plessis said to Ariel Helwani…
“He’s really hard to deal with in the beginning of the fight, but so am I. When you go that hard, and Round 2, 3, 4, 5 comes, you still have to be there, and I’ve proven that I am there in those rounds,” Du Plessis said. “So that is 100 percent a situation where I see if he can last that long. He has to realize if he wants to come out. I’m still going to be there, like I was there in the first, ready to kill. That will never change in my game.”
Dricus Du Plessis is 23-2 as a pro and a perfect 9-0 in the UFC.
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