South Africa's Dricus Du Plessis claimed a landslide decision victory in his title rematch with Sean Strickland to retain his UFC middleweight title in Sydney.

With both fighters being deceptively difficult to kill, their first encounter back at UFC 297 ended up being a tactical, back-and-forth battle that saw Du Plessis narrowly scrape out a split decision ...

Dricus Du Plessis already had a win over Sean Strickland going into UFC 312 ... and expressed confidence in the rematch. He failed to get much going, however, and was essentially a sitting ...

Dricus Du Plessis met Sean Strickland again in a title fight in the UFC 312 main event, but there was no controversy on the cards this time.

The South African was around a 2-1 favorite heading into the rematch with ... and while Strickland did have success during the early going it was du Plessis that continually threw his strikes ...

Dricus Du Plessis did the double over Sean Strickland by beating him on points again at UFC 312, retaining the middleweight title in the process. Du Plessis took the belt from Strickland in ...

UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis gave his thoughts on the barrage of criticism aimed at Sean Strickland after their rematch. Dricus du Plessis gave a surprising reaction to those ...

Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland face off ahead of their rematch at UFC 312. / (Zuffa LLC) "It was just uninspired fighting to me," Nicksick said of Strickland's performance on The Ariel ...