Mentor of the UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland Eric Niksik shared his expectations from his ward’s fight against Dricus Du Plessis, which will take place on January 20 in the main event of UFC 297 in Toronto.
“The main thing in this battle will be to impose your pace. I expect that from the first seconds of the fight Drikus will go forward quickly, hard and powerfully, and we will have to deal with this pace in the first two five minutes. And then, as soon as Sean is fully involved, he will begin to seize the initiative.
Both guys are in their places. Randy Couture always said that the hardest fight in his career is the first defense of his belt. So we need to take into account all our weaknesses and strengths,” MMA Mania quotes the specialist.
