ANC Fight Night Champion Dmitri Bikrev In a conversation with , he said that New Zealander Israel Adesanya would be victorious over UFC middleweight champion Drikus Du Plessis of South Africa.
Du Plessis will make his first UFC middleweight title defense against the former league belt holder in the main event of UFC 305 on August 17 in Australia. Adesanya has 24 wins and three losses. In his last fight in September 2023, the New Zealander lost to American Sean Strickland and lost the UFC belt. Strickland lost to Du Plessis in his first defense in January 2024. Du Plessis has 21 wins and two losses. The African has seven wins in seven UFC fights.
– It’s a confrontation between two styles. Du Plessis will try to fight and Adesanya will try to hit. I don’t know what will happen. But my opinion is that Adesanya will win. It seems to me that Du Plessis has not been champion for a long time. I won against Strickland, that’s all,” Bikrev told .
UFC 305 in Australia will be broadcast live on , starting August 18 at 05:00 Moscow time. On “Match!” The broadcast of “Fighter” will start at 01:30 Moscow time.
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