{"id":424122,"date":"2026-01-19T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424122\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:17:07","slug":"du-plessis-coach-blames-khamzats-blanket-offense-for-ufc-title-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424122\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Plessis coach blames Khamzat\u2019s \u2018blanket\u2019 offense for UFC title loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe made small, small mistakes that cost us dearly every minute of every round in that fight,\u201c coach Morne Visser told Fight Forecast (via Betway South Africa)<\/a>. \u201cSo, easy, easy fixes. We were just not prepared. It sounds stupid what I\u2019m gonna say now, but we were not prepared. We\u2019ve never been prepared to fight a guy who\u2019s not willing to fight. If we knew he was gonna try to just do that, I would have changed Dricus\u2019s base. No punches, no kicks, just flipping wrestle the guy. And Dricus is good enough to do that. But it\u2019s an MMA fight. I know Marc Goddard doesn\u2019t agree with me \u2026 you should have stood that fight up many, many times. He didn\u2019t want to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s an MMA fight, and wrestling is part of MMA.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked like if we knew nothing on the floor,\u201d Visser continued. \u201cI must be honest, we knew nothing about how to get a blanket off us. But this time around, he\u2019s gonna get f*cked up. Look, he\u2019s got zero chance against Dricus with the stand up. Zero. He\u2019s got zero chance with Dricus in the clinch. His only chance is to keep us on the floor. So that\u2019s the only thing we need to fix. And if you look back at the fight, keep people saying, \u2018Ah, you don\u2019t know how to wrestle.\u2018 That\u2019s the only thing he did. He only had to hold onto Dricus for 25 minutes to win the fight. That\u2019s what he did, so he did his job well. We\u2019ll make sure that will never, ever happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe made small, small mistakes that cost us dearly every minute of every round in that fight,\u201c coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,1396],"class_list":["post-424122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424122","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=424122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}