UFC: Israel Adesanya is keen to show out on his return, promising the fans to land a knockout victory.
Izzy vows to hit "between the eyes" | 01:59UFC middleweight champ Dricus du Plessis has been likened to Irish megastar Conor McGregor due to his ability to break opponents mentality – yet the South Africa n insists it will also be his fight IQ that proves the difference at UFC 305.
Earlier this week however, DDP reduced his rival to tears at an emotional, and at times explosive, UFC press conference, prompting plenty of analysts to recount how the South African had also done the same to America’s Sean Strickland prior to taking the strap from him in January. Elsewhere, the champ also laughed off those critics who have panned his fight style as awkward, unconventional, even likened it to “a gorilla on roller skates”.
“And in terms of how opposite I had to then fight – it was like one game plan was ‘up’ and the second was ‘down’.“Then in the Strickland fight, while I lost the first round I could still see that things were working.“ I thought I’d walk through them … but you couldn’t just take the jabs because while they weren’t hard, they were on the money.“But the game plan was working and by the second round I’d caught up and by the third it was a runaway.
As revealed by Fox Sports Australia, local punters have been rushing to back the champion over the first half of the week, with DDP holding 70 per cent of the head-to-head betting as late as Friday morning.
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