Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland expressed confidence that the current title holder Drikus Du Plessis will be able to inflict the first defeat in the career of challenger Khamzat Chimaev.
“Chimaev knows how to wrestle. I’ve trained such fools for years, and I usually could counterattack and wrestle with them. So I just don’t know if this Drikus can put up anything against his wrestling. But if he can, I think he’ll win, no problem.
I’ve sparred with this Chechen. Certainly, I think Drikus will win. It all comes down to whether he can stop this Chimaev’s takedown and perform counter-wrestling against him, but it’s not difficult,” Strickland said in an interview with Helen Yee.
Let’s remember that Du Plessis and Chimaev will meet on August 17 in the main event of UFC 319 in Chicago, USA.
