{"id":66685,"date":"2025-08-13T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66685\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:35:11","slug":"dricus-du-plessis-reveals-what-khamzat-said-during-ufc-319-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66685\/","title":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis reveals what Khamzat said during UFC 319 face off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Khamzat Chimaev will challenge Dricus du Plessis for the middleweight title atop the UFC 319 pay-per-view (PPV) event<\/a> on Sat. night (Aug. 16, 2025) at United Center in Chicago. Prior to this weekend\u2019s five-round title fight, Chimaev had an early run-in<\/a> with Du Plessis while on the ground in the \u201cWindy City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Respect today, violence on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was nothing but respect,\u201d Du Plessis told The Schmo<\/a>. \u201cHe said to me that he\u2019s happy that I\u2019m healthy and ready to go, and I said to him, \u2018right back at you.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t always have to be that hostile, but when the cage closes, I\u2019m in there to kill him. I\u2019m better than him in every single aspect. I\u2019m built different and I\u2019m the champion for a reason and he\u2019s gonna find out on Saturday night. The goal always remains the same: to be the greatest ever do this sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what about that \u201cmassive<\/a>\u201d size disparity?<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it was the angle,\u201d Du Plessis told Helen Yee<\/a>. \u201cI stood in front of him. He is definitely not taller than me. Maybe a little; maybe like, half an inch. Yeah, you\u2019ll see. And the other thing, I don\u2019t give a sh*t how big he is. That\u2019s not what wins fights. But yeah, I saw him, he is definitely not bigger than me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev will challenge Dricus du Plessis for the middleweight title atop the UFC 319 pay-per-view (PPV) event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,638,82,42366,702,4454],"class_list":["post-66685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66685","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=66685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}