UFC fighters Sean Strickland, Dricus Du Plessis have all-out brawl in stands during MMA event
UFC 296 featured more than just fights inside the octagon
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UFC 296 was more than just Leon Edwards taking down Colby Covington in the main event on Saturday night.
Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis had an all-out brawl that sets up UFC 297 in January.
At T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, cameras showed a wild scene where Du Plessis was sitting a couple of rows behind Strickland. Du Plessis was booing Strickland before the latter stood up, pointed an imaginary gun in his direction, and fired away.
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That’s when Strickland turned around and started having words with Du Plessis. Strickland, then, told those in between him and Du Plessis -- at least one kid was in the row behind him -- to move over.
With cameras still panned on them, Strickland approached Du Plessis and started to throw punches, landing his right hand on Du Plessis’ head numerous times.
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The fight was eventually broken up, with UFC CEO Dana White in the middle of the scrum. Strickland was removed from T-Mobile Arena, per ESPN broadcaster Jon Anik over the pay-per-view.
UFC has done many promotions to hype future events, even during ones like Saturday night. But the Strickland-Du Plessis fight that’s set for UFC 297 in Toronto seems like there’s some real bad blood.
The feud went to social media afterward, too.
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"I go hard on everyone I know this, izzy mouth feeding his dog, Dricus kissing his coach and grabbing his cup," Strickland wrote on X, calling out fellow UFC fighter Israel Adesanya in the process. "[Sean] Omalley [sic] talking about sharing his wife in a podcast. You’re a man, on a world stage doing this in public."
Du Plessis fired right back with his own.
"Now I understand why you have a 33% finish rate, you hit like a girl, also 20 January the security won’t be there to save your life when I’m on top #rentfree," Du Plessis tweeted.
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Safe to say UFC 297 is going to be quite the spectacle, as Strickland, who is 28-5 in his MMA career with a 15-5 record in UFC, and Du Plessis, at 20-2 with an undefeated 6-0 UFC record, won’t have security to break up the fight this time.