One month after the incident which saw Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis get involved in a heated altercation, more news has surfaced on the situation. Although they’ve never been the best of friends, the relationship between the two middleweights grew sour after the UFC 2024 seasonal press conference . The pair went back and forth until a comment made about the champion’s well-documented childhood trauma understandably hit a nerve. During a recent interview, Dricus Du Plessis recalled his brawl with Sean Strickland . While it shouldn’t have ever reached that point, the South African detailed why the two did come to blows. “I took on his manliness, you know.