Strickland, DDP Come Face-To-Face In Toronto

Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis have been reunited.

Their awkward hotel encounter, just days ahead of their five-round middleweight title fight atop the UFC 297 pay-per-view (PPV) event on Sat. night (Jan. 20, 2024) at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, marks the first time “Tarzan” and “Stillknocks” have shared the same real estate since their crowd-clearing brawl at UFC 296 last month in Las Vegas.

Watch them exchange pleasantries in the embedded video above.

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