{"id":67832,"date":"2025-08-14T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67832\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:28:08","slug":"du-plessis-vs-chimaev-ufc-319-title-clash-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67832\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Plessis vs. Chimaev: UFC 319 Title Clash in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis defends his title for the third time against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/10\/26\/24280285\/robert-whittaker-vs-khamzat-chimaev-results-live-streaming-updates-ufc-308\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oncoming force<\/a> Khamzat Chimaev in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/17\/24450993\/ufc-319-fight-card-ppv-start-time-date-location-dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-chicago-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319<\/a> this weekend (Sat., Aug. 16, 2025), which all goes down inside the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A five-round war could force Chimaev to rethink his all-out approach\u2014but du Plessis is banking on the opposite and hopes \u201cBorz\u201d charges him from the opening bell as the South African champion will not quit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/10\/26\/24280285\/robert-whittaker-vs-khamzat-chimaev-results-live-streaming-updates-ufc-308\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">change his game plan against<\/a> Robert Whittaker despite it being five rounds, so that already gives me the sense he\u2019s not thinking about the full distance,\u201d du Plessis told reporters during UFC 319 media day. \u201cFive rounds is a long time, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/18\/24222390\/full-fight-video-highlights-dricus-du-plessis-israel-adesanya-ufc-305-results-espn-ppv-submission\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m not afraid to go to that dark place<\/a>\u2014you\u2019ve seen that. If we go full speed, I can fight tired all day\u2014I\u2019ve done that many times. So, let\u2019s go for it. Let\u2019s go full speed and see who quits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Will stamina be the X-factor in this high-stakes clash? The MMA world gets its answer in just three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis defends his title for the third time against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,42366,702,3194],"class_list":["post-67832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832","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=67832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}