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Dricus Du Plessis vs. Israel Adesanya. Fight Prediction
The champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship in the middleweight category Dricus Du Plessis will meet Israel Adesanya. The title fight within the UFC 305 tournament will take place on August 18 at the RAC Arena in Perth (Australia) and will start approximately at 06:00 Moscow time. Will the South African be able to succeed in the fight with the fighter from Nigeria and what bets should he choose? - read our betting tip
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Dricus Du Plessis
South AfricaCurrent form
Dricus Du Plessis is the winner of the Youth World Kickboxing Championship. In MMA, he became champion in the Extreme Fighting Championship and Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki. The South African came to Dana White's league in 2020 and has not lost a single fight yet. Stillknocks defeated Australian Robert Whittaker (technical knockout, second round) in July 2023 and won the UFC championship belt.
And six months later, he successfully defended his title in a fight with another US representative, Sean Strickland (split decision). The 30-year-old Plessy has 20 wins (nine by knockout, two by decision, nine by submission) and two losses. Drikus has a black belt in kickboxing.
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Plessy commented on Adesanya's statement, who promised to hold him accountable for trying to appropriate the title of the first African champion.
"I don't know whether I got into his head or not, but I do know that he has firmly established himself in his own head. If my goal was to get into his head, I succeeded in doing so, judging by what he says. Now not only do I haunt him, but he haunts himself. In any case, I am glad that I achieved a double effect.
"I said his fire was gone, but I don't think it is. It's just that his fire is small compared to mine. The passion and fire that I have overshadows everything, so it's hard for me to see his fire."
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Plessy's takedown rate is 52 percent.
65 percent of Plessy's punches land on his opponent's head.
Israel Adesanya
NigeriaCurrent form
Israel Adesanya is a former Super 8 Boxing Tournament (boxing), King in the Ring, and Glory (kickboxing) champion. In MMA, he won the Australian Fighting Championship and Hex Fighting Series Middleweight titles. The Nigerian is also a former two-time UFC champion, ranked second in the division and 13th in the pound-for-pound rankings.
The Last Stylebender has lost his last two out of three fights. In his last one in September 2023, he lost to Strickland (unanimous), and before that to Brazilian Alex Pereira (knockout, fifth round). But a few months later, Adesanya was able to take revenge on the Latin American (knockout, second round). The 35-year-old Israel has 24 wins (16 by knockout, eight by decision, zero by submission) and three losses.
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Adesanya called Du Plessis a colonialist. «He’s not like Francis Ngannou, who had to cross the desert to go overseas and train. If you know Francis’s story, you can’t call him a fake African champion just because he didn’t train in Africa. This is a guy who should have died in the desert several times, but he survived. We paved the way for Dricus, and he comes out and tries to take it all for himself. I wonder where he got that from? It’s a colonialist mentality.»
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Adesanya has finished his opponents in the first round six times.
Adesanya's strike defense stats are 56 percent.
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Bet Adesanya wins by knockout
Adesanya has 16 knockout wins
3.50Tip and bets
Bookmakers' analysts found it difficult to name a clear favorite of the upcoming fight. In their opinion, Adesanya will have a slight advantage. In general, one can agree with them. After an unsuccessful period, the Nigerian managed to restore his physical condition in a year, do a lot of work on his mistakes and is now definitely ready to regain his lost championship belt.
Our prediction is Adesanya's victory at 1.72
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