{"id":101023,"date":"2025-08-27T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101023\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:48:07","slug":"dricus-du-plessis-vs-paulo-costa-should-be-the-next-fight-says-mma-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis vs Paulo Costa should be the next fight, says MMA analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chael Sonnen believes that Dricus du Plessis vs Paulo Costa is a smart fight to make in the middleweight division.<\/p>\n

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As we know, Dricus du Plessis recently lost his UFC middleweight championship<\/a>. He fell short in his title fight against Khamzat Chimaev and while some believe an immediate rematch could be on the cards, the majority are of the opinion that he needs to win a fight or two in order to earn his way back there.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Paulo Costa turns attention to \u2018unpredictable\u2019 Dricus Du Plessis as his next opponent: \u2018A huge fight\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Regardless of which side of the fence you fall on, there\u2019s no denying that du Plessis has some interesting options out there. One of them would see him collide with Paulo Costa who is coming off the back of a win over Roman Kopylov. He isn\u2019t really on the same level as DDP right now in terms of contendership, but it\u2019d definitely be an intriguing fight to see.<\/p>\n

In a recent video, Chael Sonnen gave his thoughts on the possibility of du Plessis vs Costa taking place.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen believes that Dricus du Plessis vs Paulo Costa is a smart fight to make in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-101023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}