For the veryfirst time giventhat their notorious in-cage exchange almost one year ago, Dricus Du Plessis and Israel Adesanya got inperson at Tuesday’s UFC 305 on-sale press conference in Australia.
Du Plessis (21-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) will effort to make his veryfirst middleweight title defense in the Aug. 17 headliner when he takes on previous champ and competitor Adesanya (24-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) at RAC Arena in Perth (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+).
The heated back-and-forth that tookplace following Du Plessis’ upset TKO surface of Robert Whittaker at UFC 290 in July 2019 was a precursor to the some of the word at the press conference, as remarks about race and familytree continue