Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier react to the judges’ cards of Dricus Du Plessis’ split-decision win over Sean Strickland to win the middleweight title at UFC 297 and debate who should be next for the new champ.
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Round three was the swing round by the way Eric nixi said he didn’t like that round but one of the three judges did score it for Strickland the other two for dupi Rounds 1 2 four and five were all unanimously scored so round three was the decider and as we spin it
Fourward what do you got you who scored who won round two round two across the board was Drake’s dupy yep that’s what I thought but as we spin this thing forward right kamach Chimay Israel adosa Shan Strickland right you got to think the next opponent is going to come out
Of those three the foundation has already been laid for the Rivalry between dupi and Israel aagna we don’t exactly know Izzy’s appetite for an expeditious return but what do we think DC and then I’ll get to you Dom as to what might be next I think Izzy would
Want to fight this guy I don’t know that Izzy would want to go back and fight strong Strickland right now because he seemed out and he didn’t seem as motivated for it not to take anyway up for from Sean but this guy draus and Izzy have a bad history that would be a
Fantastic fight with the foundation already built for the bad blood that we all love so [Applause] Much
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Strickland wasn't a champ Dana wanted! This was very, i mean very close fight,but not enough done by DDP to dethrone Strickland! Poor decision made by judges to my opinion!!!
Dricus 🔥🫡🇿🇦
The fact they all gave ddp round 2 tells me the fix is in
Cant understand how people believe that the reigning champ should win when there is a close call at the end of 5 rounds, so what you all are saying is the judges should ignore their scorecards and give the match to Strickland, bizarre!
So just to understand, how many points ahead after 5 rounds qualifies the challenger to have the belt taken from the champ? Or is it no split decisions are allowed when challenging for a championship? Hilarious! Its the reason they have 3 judges…
Great fight to watch, Strickland definitely won the 1st round and the last 30 seconds of the 5th round turned that round for him, but rounds 2/3 and 4 definitely goes to Dricus.
Whats also quite funny is people questioning the judges scorecards where all the judges where unanimous for DDP rounds 2 and 4, and round 3 = 2 judges for DDP and 1 for Strickland. End of the day DDP did enough to get the split decision vote.
Strickland was getting all of this hype and I didn't understand why. He beat a out of touch Izzy and never defended the belt. I always kind of felt like he was going to lose his next title defense. He got a bit lucky that night with Izzy. Izzy wasnt the same guy.
Drickus is not bad, but for him to improve, his trainer must concentrate on his boxing skills and improve it a 110%.
Strickland was robbed. You gotta be unquestionable better than the Champ and ddp just wasn't. This way you could argue that reyes won against jon jones, also adesanya would have lost some fights too this way. Sean got up without damage after every Takedown
I have to start paying attention to drake bets and bet the opposite cause he don't miss 🤷🏾♂️
Izz still calling him a cracker?
This scumbag win was giving to him by Dana White cause they were fighting in Canada, this is b s, this laud mouth didn't win the fight, so you're a champion in the United States and you got to defend it it in another country, I never care for the rule wheather is here or any other country.
Decisions like this is why I stream the POOfc for free absolute trash strickland won lol going down the same route as boxing
Can’t help but notice a near empty looking arena….. UFC is never gonna be what it used to be…..
Short lived title for Strickland… that’s not good on the resume… I though he was the next BIG GUY
Stricklands jab is different… you heard ddp acknowledge it and Dana… you also saw dricus post fight. Did not look like a dude that just won a fight. Very close fight but that jab needs to be scored differently, and it was landed quite a bit more. Yes, dricus has more power, but the power punches were few and far between when compared to the Strickland jab. If we’re looking at damage, ddp got busted up badly and could not stop Sean from landing that jab
I like dricus but Sean took that fight
That was a robbery. Dricus won't hold that belt for long.
Drake my man i love your songs and rap but pls pls man dont judge a book by its cover
God's Plan !!!
Ufc is fading away.
Belt Belongs in africa stop this arguing
they need to stop counting a take down with zero damage as a winning round and that cut was because of a headbutt