With his mostly dominant win over a former champion Saturday, Dricus Du Plessis punched his ticket to a title fight. Then things got ugly. Du Plessis (20-2 MMA, 6-0 UFC) took out former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker (25-7 MMA, 15-5 UFC) with a second-round TKO at UFC 290 in Las Vegas. The fight was a title eliminator meant to determine the next challenger for champ Israel Adesanya – who has been going back and forth in the media and on social media with Du Plessis.
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