{"id":86404,"date":"2025-08-21T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86404\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:29:08","slug":"dricus-du-plessis-only-needs-12-to-16-weeks-to-fix-wrestling-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86404\/","title":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis only needs \u201812 to 16 weeks\u2019 to fix wrestling defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dricus du Plessis is taking a couple of weeks off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The good news, at least from the perspective of CIT Performance Institute head coach Morne Visser, is that Du Plessis only needs three months to fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/383458\/ufc-319-the-morning-after-ill-prepared-dricus-du-plessis-cannot-magic-his-way-into-wrestling-fundamentals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the holes that led to his downfall at UFC 319<\/a>. As a result, fight fans can expect Du Plessis back inside the cage in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI need 12 to 16 weeks, which is like three to four months, to sort this problem out,\u201d Visser told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TqQKMZ9ZvyA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submission Radio<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t need fitness, I don\u2019t need strength, I don\u2019t need conditioning, I don\u2019t need to fix his stand up. I just need to fix this problem, and it\u2019s a fixable problem. I need about 12 to 16 weeks to fix the problem and then go back into camp immediately, a 12-week fight camp. So, we\u2019ll be back early next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis is taking a couple of weeks off. The good news, at least from the perspective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,42366,702],"class_list":["post-86404","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86404","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=86404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}