An unshakable competitive drive and pure brute force have teamed up to take reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight titleholder Dricus Du Plessis to unexpected heights.
The 30-year-old South African tank will put his 185-pound championship on the line when he rematches Sean Strickland in the UFC 312 headliner on Feb. 8 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. Du Plessis enters his 2025 campaign on the strength of a career-best 10-fight winning streak that now spans more than five years. “Stillknocks” owns a perfect 8-0 record inside the Octagon, with six of those eight victories having resulted in finishes, and laid claim to titles in the Extreme Fighting Championship and Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki organizations prior to his arrival in the UFC.