Dricus Du Plessis’ First Title Defense Already Decided by Dana White, Signals Israel Adesanya & Khamzat Chimaev’s Return After UFC 297

Dricus Du Plessis has arrived and he’s looking for blood. The new and first South African middleweight champion celebrated his win over Sean Strickland just a little while ago and then called out the former champion. Israel Adesanya is on Stillknocks’ list and now, Dana White has an interesting update.

Dana White, as usual, appeared for the press conference after UFC 297. He took many questions from a whole horde of journalists one of which was about Du Plessis’ very first title defense. So, who will be his opponent and when can we expect to see him back in action?

Dricus Du Plessis might have two interesting opponents

Dricus Du Plessis has had a storyline to settle with Israel Adesanya. Adesanya walked up to Dricus Du Plessis after he knocked out Robert Whittaker. The two faced-off and Adesanya was loud and clear when he tried to humiliate the South African fighter.

“I don’t need a DNA test to know where I’m from.” Adesanya said to Du Plessis cutting him off after Joe Rogan asked him a question. “I will show you where you’re from. It’s an easy fight. It’s easy money. I said I was going to have this moment.” 

Apart from that, Khamzat Chimaev who has recently moved to the middleweight class also has Du Plessis’s name on his list. Now that ‘Stillknocks’ is the champion, everyone wants a piece of him. ‘Borz’ sent out a warning from his X account saying that he’ll see Du Plessis at UFC 300. Now Dana White has an update.

White was asked about the status of Du Plessis’s first title defense to which he said. “We’ll figure this out Tuesday, we’ll probably announce it next week. . . we’ll find out next week.” Looks like White is a bit consumed with the aftermath of the current event. Once his schedule clears up, perhaps we can expect a new title fight soon too.

‘Izzy’ is on Du Plessis mind

If Du Plessis could pick a fighter to take down, perhaps he’d enjoy going up against Israel Adesanya the most. The storyline they started is still incomplete and will remain so until they battle it out for the championship title inside the cage. And so, Du Plessis called out Adesanya quickly.

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“Israel Adesanya, get your as* back in the cage so we can settle the score.” he declared with great ambition. He now has the belt that Adesanya wore so proudly and defended with his might. Will he come back to get his belt back? Or does ‘The Last Stylebender’ have deeper plans for his return? Only time can really tell. We’ll find out the coming Tuesday what exactly Dana Whit has cooked up for the new and reigning middleweight champion.

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