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Dricus Du Plessis Murphy (red gloves) fights Khamzat Chimaev (blue gloves) during UFC 319 at United Center in Chicago on August 16, 2025. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n
Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist Paulo Costa criticised Dricus du Plessis’ dismal performance against Khamzat Chimaev in a middleweight title fight at UFC 319 on August 16, international media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Khamzat earned a unanimous decision win, with all three judges scoring the contest 50-44 in his favour.<\/p>\n
Chechen-born fighter dominated the South African over five rounds, making it clear to everyone that he did not gas out.<\/p>\n
Costa expressed his views about Du Plessis\u2019s defeat, saying the South African did a worse job as he got stuck in the crucifix.<\/p>\n
“[Dricus du Plessis] got stuck in that crucifix. Chimaev [had] good positions above, but he could not hit anyway, but DDP did a worse job,\u201d Costa said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got stuck in the crucifix for five minutes and… when I saw that, I thought, man, the fight is over because you’re going to be gassed.”<\/p>\n
The Brazilian also reflected on Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s game plan, saying everybody was aware of what the Russian was going to do, and he did the same; he shot on the leg from the start.<\/p>\n
“No, I was not impressed… Everybody knew what he was going to do. [Chimaev] did the same, he just shot on the leg in the very beginning… He needed to fight back to get up on his feet,\u201d Costa added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a tough guy to fight, and Khamzat Chimaev knew that, that why he held him [down] for so long. Even the fifth round. Fifth round, Dricus [du Plessis] was still dangerous, you know, and Chimaev was afraid to fight him fairly.” <\/p>\n
Chimaev is still undefeated since his debut five years ago and extended his record to 15-0 with this victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dricus Du Plessis Murphy (red gloves) fights Khamzat Chimaev (blue gloves) during UFC 319 at United Center in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,22192,83778,20207,22191,786,4120,785,6401,85],"class_list":["post-118366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chimaev","tag-costa","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-du-plessis","tag-fighting","tag-khamzat-chimaev","tag-mma","tag-paulo-costa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}