Heading into their championship rematch at UFC 312 on Feb. 9, former middleweight titleholder Sean Strickland challenged champion Dricus Du Plessis to keep the fight standing. Strickland suggested making a ‘pact,’ a gentlemen’s agreement to not take the fight to the ground. “Listen Dutchman, I’m going to need you to be a f*cking man,” Strickland said in a video posted to social media. “I’m gonna need you to stand up, not go to your knees, and we’re gonna need to strike like men. I know you like to wrestle and you like to f*cking choke people out and do some gay sh*t, dude, but I’ll make a pact with you, you make a pact with me that we f*cking stand up like f*cking men and we settle this sh*t like men.” Du Plessis wasn’t interested in making any pact and quickly shot down the request
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Dricus Du Plessis scoffs at Sean Strickland’s ‘ridiculous’ UFC 312 request – MMA Weekly