UFC 297: 🇺🇸Strickland vs. du Plessis-🇿🇦Live discussion thread

[Nicklol]

Sean won that fairly easily.

chat is saying like 4-1 ddp..
donno about dat

Ddp just had more activity

sean never wants to throw any power punches

so frustrating

waits until last 30 secs to throw some right hands

[Swept]

Strickland has one gear

[Skylinerd1]

Thats rubbish DDP didnt do enough for me.

[wickedman]

That's what fighting like a puss will get ya - he had the means to do what he did in R5 way earlier, had set it up with the jab, he's just a big ole' bitch and didn't want to fight until it looked like he was gonna lose.

[FAPhaggot]

Cloooose fawking fight. Rematch when?

[dingler]

Winning the belt via split decision is bs. F that guy.

[sooby]

razor close, what lost it for sean is he stopped putting his foot on the gas in round 3 and round 4, maybe the cut in his eye broke his defense but he didn't fight with urgency until round 5.

[CanardMedic]

Thats rubbish DDP didnt do enough for me.

got 5 out of 4 take downs..bloodied up Sean and kept him backing up the whole fight.
Sounds fair to me.

[stayhomeneet]

Nice win for DDP and he will only improve from that.

Strickland is just a average fighter who was hyped up because he beat Grace Jones, yeah it was funny watching Grace Jones take another L but then Strickland became ALMOST as annoying a presence himself.

Happy for DDP.

[Schnitzl]

How's this Paperview? fuark, garbage card, hopefully the main event delivers

My favourite typo lmao. Paper View.

[TrueTruth]

First real African champ, who lives and trains there, not just on paper like the other fake clowns from New Zealand, US, and anywhere else but Africa. Congrats.

Good fight from both fighters, but DDP deserves it by pushing forward every round. Split decision is just about right. It was close.

[Skylinerd1]

got 5 out of 4 take downs..bloodied up Sean and kept him backing up the whole fight.
Sounds fair to me.

They were nothing take downs when a guy can get up basically straight away imo thats barely a proper take down. DDP was extremely average on the ground.

Sean had to of landed twice the shots with that jab. DDP's face is a mess.

[stayhomeneet]

They were nothing take downs when a guy can get up basically straight away imo thats barely a proper take down. DDP was extremely average on the ground.

Sean had to of landed twice the shots with that jab. DDP's face is a mess.

Strickland is a meme now, he should stick to calling out youtubers and talking about men's rights.

[Harry362]

Dricius “Aparteid” Du Plessus new MW champion what?


Good for him I bet robocop is pissed. Apartheids old arch nemesis lost to a nobody and here is DDP as new ufc champ

[LeoThedude]

That should of been a draw if not a win for Sean, I had Strickland up by atleast a point... They over valued that cut, a rematch in the future is deserved thats bs...

[nn586]

DDP only won cause the takedowns, but by a small margin if that and I could see Sean winning that as well

Very close fight, but underwhelming.

[MinisterOfLust]

I had

RD 1 Strickland
RD 2 DDP
RD 3 DDP
RD 4 DDP
RD 5 Strickland.


DDP won.

[HarryDick]

Glad Du Plessis won.

He may be good on the mic, but Strickland is very boring in the octagon.

Throwing weak jabs for 5 rounds, trying to win a decision, doesn't make for an exciting fight.

[FAPhaggot]

Can't disagree with the judges' decisions. The split mostly came on round 3, which really could have gone either way.

So nice to have reasonable judges, instead of those Saudi phaugs calling Fury vs Ngannou.

[MinisterOfLust]

Dricius “Aparteid” Du Plessus new MW champion what?


Good for him I bet robocop is pissed. Apartheids old arch nemesis lost to a nobody and here is DDP as new ufc champ

Stop being a moron.

How you're not red?

[MinisterOfLust]

Winning the belt via split decision is bs. F that guy.

Wot???

[goingcia]

I had

RD 1 Strickland
RD 2 DDP
RD 3 DDP
RD 4 DDP
RD 5 Strickland.


DDP won.

This. DDP was trying to make up for round 1 and it showed. There is something to say for pressing and dictating the pace.

[TheGattingBall]

Winning the belt via split decision is bs. F that guy.

Agreed. Dricus clearly won but Sal pulled his usual bull**** and made it a split decision.

[Harry362]

Stop being a moron.

How you're not red?

Is Roblox down? I had ddp winning

Like
Both fighters

You prob mad Strickland calls out groomers like you

[Dontknomyass2]

I knew Duplessis was going to win, but can't believe that the fight was so close. I was winning everything last night, so I kept piling it on and adding more to the bet.

I don't know anything about this betting stuff
but you wagered 175 and won 1.4k? brb might start doing this

[Scorpion613]

I don't know anything about this betting stuff
but you wagered 175 and won 1.4k? brb might start doing this

I picked the exact method of victory and winner on a 5 round fight. It's all luck. There are some fighters that I recognize very well and can put together a decent prediction of the outcome. But it all comes down to luck.I was up around $1k at the time, so I kept adding more to the fight since I felt very strong about du plessis.

[ooph]

DDP only won cause the takedowns, but by a small margin if that and I could see Sean winning that as well

Very close fight, but underwhelming.

Which he shouldn't have. 1 2 and 5 went to Sean. Fight verdict gave sean 4 rounds, but close.



Take down with no control/damage is effectively useless.

The headbutt that cut sean was the game changer in the fight. That looked like 'damage' to judges. Clearly the only person with any damage was DDP.

But it sets up the DDP vs Izzy fight which is what they wanted in the first place.

But LMAO saying DDP did more damage.

He had good octagon control (which is a secondary scoring subject), take downs to no control/damage. Some of you should actually read the MMA scoring criteria for MMA fights.


"Weak Jab"



Yeah okay.

Besides the headbutt cut, there is literally no damage to strickland.

[DDoc]

I didn't catch it live but I watched a replayed today without sound (at work). I thought DDP won pretty clearly, though I will admit ^^^he looked a hell of a lot worse than Sean after the fight. People's bodies are different I guess. I was rooting for Sean btw. The only round I could decisively give him is the 5th. Maybe I need to watch again.

[sooby]

ppl saying DDP clearly won are crazy

the fight was super close. round two was super close, even though Sean landed more shots.

Rd 1 and Rd 5 clearly went to Sean

Rd 3 and Rd 4 went to Dricus

Either way can't be mad at the decision. Both had a case for winning. Sean was landing more shots but DDP was landing the more damaging stuff IMO. Unfortunately Sean front loaded his efforts in R1/R2/R5 and had little output in 3/4

[MinisterOfLust]

Is Roblox down? I had ddp winning

Like
Both fighters

You prob mad Strickland calls out groomers like you

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Try to make some sense next time