Joe Rogan shocked judges awarded Dricus Du Plessis purchase over Sean Strickland at UFC 297

Joe Rogan didn’t request Dricus Du Plessis to beat Sean Strickland when the scorecards hang been being read out.

Du Plessis (21-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) edged out Strickland (28-6 MMA, 15-6 UFC) to utter the middleweight title in Saturday’s UFC 297 main tournament at Scotiabank Area in Toronto.

Strickland started off stable when he pumped out his jab to corpulent manufacture. However because the fight went on, Du Plessis rallied, doing enough to sway the judges in his desire. The discontinuance outcome yielded mixed reactions, and Rogan seemed to mediate Strickland must hang obtained.

“Wow, titillating, very titillating,” Rogan talked about on his “JRE Battle Companion.” “I wonder how the of us online in truth feel about that because we’re now not scoring it while we’re watching it, we’re simply having fun. Were we unpleasant?… Listen, fourth round, he (Du Plessis) did awesome. How about him vs. Khamzat (Chimaev), UFC 300?”

All three judges agreed on the scoring of every and each round with the exception of the third, which used to be the deciding factor for Du Plessis. Rogan thinks Strickland had the stronger shut to the fight.

“I no doubt mediate (Du Plessis) obtained the fourth, nonetheless make you observed he obtained the fifth? I don’t know, man,” Rogan talked about. “The fifth gave the affect take care of it used to be Sean used to be touchdown more shots.”

At some stage in the post-fight news conference, Dana White used to be requested about what’s next for Du Plessis, and if UFC 300 is a possibility for his first title defense. Du Plessis called out inclined champion Israel Adesanya, nonetheless if Adesanya isn’t willing, Rogan wouldn’t mind seeing a rematch between Du Plessis and Strickland.

“Why now not? If Adesanya can’t possess it, listen, that’s a upright fight,” Rogan talked about. “A rematch? That’s a upright fight. That’s a extraordinarily quick turnaround for either in truth the form of guys, despite the actual fact that. If it is probably you’ll maybe also simply hang a split decision loss, that’s in truth one of the most traditional indications that it used to be a shut fight. The more or less fights it is probably you’ll maybe also very well be looking out to investigate cross-test a rematch on are the ones which can also very well be shut fights. If Izzy can’t, that as a rematch is terribly compelling.”

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