deserved more 10-8 rounds,<\/a> you know it was a beatdown \u2026 one that UFC commentator Joe Rogan believes could keep du Plessis out of title contention so long as Chimaev holds the belt.<\/p>\n\u201cFor Dricus to come back from that and bridge the gap between him and Khamzat, that is a tall task,\u201d Rogan said following the main event. \u201cIt\u2019s a tall task because that kind of dominance, that kind of grappling dominance, was not just a level. It was multiple levels, and it just didn\u2019t seem like he had any answer for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know who he brought in to train with him, but clearly he didn\u2019t bring in anybody that had that kind of skill.\u201d<\/p>\n
While many expect we\u2019re about to see a long Khamzat reign, Rogan suggested there might be a man with the skills to counter Chimaev\u2019s wrestling in the wings.<\/p>\n
\u201cReinier de Ridder in particular, given his ability to grapple on the ground and also his ability to land shots standing,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cHis toughness, his experience. He throws those combinations with that long lead-in knee. He\u2019s interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Ridder is a former ONE middleweight champion and has already gone 4-0<\/a> since his debut with the UFC in November 2024. In May he took out three time NCAA Division I champion Bo Nickal, showing he knows how to handle wrestlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday night at UFC 319, Dricus du Plessis got dominated for 25 solid minutes by Khamzat Chimaev.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,785,85,51992,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-75238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-full-results","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75238","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=75238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}