{"id":809886,"date":"2026-07-19T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809886\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:06:08","slug":"ufc-oklahoma-city-post-show-dricus-du-plessis-beat-up-kamaru-usman-but-what-did-it-do-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809886\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Oklahoma City Post Show: Dricus du Plessis beat up Kamaru Usman, but what did it do for him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dricus du Plessis got back in the win column, but where he goes from here is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Saturday night, the former middleweight champion added a rock-solid win to his resume, winning a wide unanimous decision over Kamaru Usman in the main event of UFC Oklahoma City. But though it was a good win for \u201cDDP,\u201d du Plessis failed to make a statement over the smaller fighter, raising the question of whether that was good enough for him to get another crack at the middleweight belt?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Following the UFC Fight Night card, MMA Fighting\u2019s Jed Meshew reacts to du Plessis\u2019s win and where it puts him in the 185-pound pecking order. Additionally, Jed talks about where Usman goes from here, the rest of the UFC Oklahoma City Card, Johnny Eblen\u2019s big win at PFL Austin, the marquee RAF results, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch the UFC Oklahoma City post-fight show above, or an audio-only version of the show can also be streamed below and on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?xcust=__sb0719awD__496800____r______________google.com&amp;id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id320642139&amp;referrer=sbnation.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27Z2RR39rjGrRcV1DiQ40J?si=5ZS0Lje7QbWITUd60cOb8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you get your pods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis got back in the win column, but where he goes from here is anybody\u2019s guess.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,45518,1591,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-809886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809886","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=809886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}