If the choice of opponent depended on him, in the next fight Dricus Du Plessis I wouldn't fight with Sean Stricklandand with Khamzat ChimaevSports.kz reports with reference to Fighttime.ru.
The current UFC middleweight champion announced this to fans on the social network.
“Just to be clear, I would have preferred the Khamzat fight, but the Shawn rematch is the fight I was most looking forward to before the Chimaev-Whittaker fight,” the South African fighter wrote. “I won’t say that I’m unhappy with the UFC’s decision. Like I said, I'll fight whoever the fans think is the next best guy. He was promised a fight, so it's Strickland.”
Du Plessis also responded to a fan who said that Chimaev would easily beat both of them.
