LIVE! Strickland Vs. Du Plessis Full Fight Blog, Streaming Updates

Mixed martial arts (MMA) Middleweight rivals, Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis, will settle their ugly score once and for all TONIGHT (Sat., Jan. 20, 2024) in UFC 297’s pay-per-view (PPV) main event from inside Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Indeed, it all ends here … right?

Besides “revenge,“ Strickland has a lot on his plate this evening in “The Great White North.” That’s because “Mr. Apex” more or less slid into Du Plessis’ spot at UFC 293 last year and then he accomplished the unthinkable: He dethroned Israel Adesanya in fairly dominant fashion (watch highlights).

Was it a fluke?

There’s also Dana White’s UFC 300 “rabbit” lurking in the shadows. In other words, the winner this evening could very well find himself in the historic pay-per-view (PPV) main event on April 13, 2024.

No pressure.

Du Plessis has played a magical foil to Strickland’s typically unbothered alpha male attitude. More important, he hasn’t lost since 2018, carving a bloody path through his Middleweight opposition en route to the top of the division.

Enough trash talk — it’s time to fight!

Live updates will begin to flow below the moment the two fighters make their way to the Octagon …

“DDP” the “challenger,” was the first to make the walk:

Then, it was time for Canada’s unlikely hero to head to the cage with his “secret weapon” in tow:

Round one:

In progress …

Round two:

Round three:

Round four:

Round five:

Final result:

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