Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis will battle in the principle occasion for the UFC middleweight title of UFC 297 in Toronto on Saturday, the promotion’s first pay-per-view occasion of 2024. Whereas the cardboard as a complete isn’t anyplace close to akin to the UFC’s subsequent three pay-per-view playing cards, the Strickland vs. du Plessis matchup is doing a number of heavy lifting because the anticipation continues to construct.
Forward of the occasion, and the 185-pound title combat, MMA Combating’s Mike Heck, Shaun Al-Shatti, and Eric Jackman preview UFC 297, Strickland vs. du Plessis, the potential of the winner turning round for UFC 300, and extra.
Moreover, they’ll talk about the vacant girls’s bantamweight championship co-main occasion between Mayra Bueno Silva and Raquel Pennington, which different primary card fighter is the panel conserving their eye on, the low-key banger of the cardboard, and rather more.
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