{"id":77052,"date":"2025-08-17T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77052\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:41:07","slug":"mick-maynards-shoes-whats-next-for-dricus-du-plessis-after-ufc-319-title-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77052\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Maynard&#8217;s Shoes: What&#8217;s next for Dricus Du Plessis after UFC 319 title loss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dricus Du Plessis championship era was brought to a halt Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319<\/a> courtesy of Khamzat Chimaev.<\/p>\n<p>Du Plessis (23-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) was handily beaten by Chimaev (15-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) in the form of a unanimous decision at United Center in Chicago, ending his reign as middleweight titleholder with two defenses under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With almost no moments of success in the fight, Du Plessis is highly unlikely to get an immediate rematch and will have to regroup. Where does he go, though?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above for analysis on Du Plessis&#8217; options after UFC 319.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/17\/ufc-319-matchmaker-dricus-du-plessis-next-fight-title-loss\/85700317007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319 matchmaker: Who&#039;s next for Dricus Du Plessis after title loss?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319 matchmaker: Who&#8217;s next for Dricus Du Plessis after title loss?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dricus Du Plessis championship era was brought to a halt Saturday at UFC 319 courtesy of Khamzat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,17724,19451,641,5899,638,82,640,1160,46540],"class_list":["post-77052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-du-plessis","tag-fighting","tag-khamzat-chimaev","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-unanimous-decision","tag-united-center-in-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77052","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=77052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}