The second wages of the 2025 UFC à la carte cannot be called a Doozy rightly, but he has two title fights at the top, including a revenge match between Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland for the weight belt Middle, and the defense of Zhang Weili to date to date against Tatiana Suarez. There are a lot of questions.
1. In the first fight, Strickland exceeded Plessis each turn except one. Should he keep the same match plan?
Petise: The more I think about it, the more I have the impression that Dricus du Plessis has become a Dvalishvili Merabe of average weight. However, there is a big difference; While we expect Merab to take his own results in the second half of his battles as we have recently seen against Umarmagomedov, the “DDP” often seems cooked by the second round, but always finds this additional gas for caress it on the finish line.
So far, of all the champion’s opponents, Strickland has been closest to defeat him. The American is the only enemy of the last five of Du Plessis to hear the last bell. I think it would be silly for Strickland to promulgate a complete tactical overhaul before this second meeting, but I also think that we will see the champion change much more the dynamics of the fight by trying to wear the American from the high position.
Mandrel: After a certain time, you become safe from everything that looks like excuses in the fighting game, Petesy, so when Strickland stressed that he could not see during the majority of this first meeting because of this Cut, I barely recorded it.
But now that they are on the other hand, and we are taking more and more exams on the way everything happened, I would say that it has played a massive role. Not only to hinder Stickland’s ability to see, but also in the creation of a macabre visual to distort judges to obvious “damage”. Strickland did a good job in the strike, as he always does. He landed, but it was nothing splashing. It was a lot of pepper volume that may not register. Larger shots went to Plessis.
I think that if I am Strickland, the goal is to keep Plessis in front of you, to avoid withdrawals at all costs and to preserve enough energy to come to life later against one of the greatest engines in the division .
2. Who would be the UFC would prefeat this average weight title after the UFC 312?
Mandrel: I think that, as articulated as Plessis and for everything it represents for the continent of Africa, the wider appeal is likely to in Strickland. It is almost blasphemous to list the reasons for this, but mark one for inexpensive heat, intolerant attitudes and a pure audacity.
It was interesting to see Khamzat Chimaev and Strickland getting started on social networks, just as Strickland obtains a second crack in Plessis. I think the UFC could have a fairly major quarrel preparing between the two, and you can imagine every ugly and dark corners that rivalry would go if Strickland would win. At present, he seems to focus on who is “the most gay”, which is essentially a level of fifth year sophistication on a waste scale, and therefore calls on a large number of MMA fans.
I would say, however, that Du Plessis would make a certain section of combat fans very happy to remove Strickland once and for all.
Petise: Yes, I can see reasons why having either “DDP” or Strickland as champion would place at the UFC.
On the one hand, Plessis remains the most important key to the African promotion market, with the whites, repeatedly citing the hope of taking the UFC to South Africa in the last 12 months. Now that Ngannou has left the company as well as Adesanya and Usman separating from their titles, “DDP” is the greatest commodity in the UFC in terms of African brand.
Strickland, on the other hand, is a provider in good faith with pearls. With the CEO of the UFC, Dana White, increasing the flag of freedom of expression throughout the Bryce Hall incident, he has the impression that the patented diatribes of Strickland “You Guys …” are in perfect State with what the company tries to be identified as in 2025.
3. Who should be online for THE Winner of DuplSis vs. Strickland: Khamzat Chimaev or Nassourdine Imavov?
Petise: It must be Chimaev, Chuck.
It is hard to believe the same guy that we were talking about fighting for a Welter weight title less than a year after his beginnings in 2020 have still not fought for a belt in 2025. Of course, he is not Not without problems – mainly trips – but white it seems convinced that the saga of the Chechen visa is coming to the end. If this is true, I think that will reduce part of the hesitation that the company put it in first place, because it was widely known that “Borz” could not compete anywhere outside the means -Orient for some time.
Imavov would certainly be the guy if Chimaev was not a must in average weights. His victory over Adesanya showed the world that he was able to challenge for the belt, but it seems that a meeting between him and Caio Borralho has the most sense of determining the next competitor.
Mandrel: Khamzat should be the guy, for sure, and I think that the combo of his mystique and his cream makes him a rare type of essential star. The only thing is that it is so 50/50 that it will be there on the night of combat. To put it on all the promotional material and create B-Roll to report the masses on his domination, and to sell the quarrel between him and anyone who holds this belt … It’s a lot of well.
However, I think you are right. The risk is worth creating a star of its magnitude. And if he can travel more freely given White’s links with this new American administration, it is the obvious botter of all this configuration. Being confined to the Middle East essentially made him the greatest regional fighter of all time, but if he can come to Vegas to inaugurate the “borz” era with average means? White’s eyes would light up as if he was looking at an ice bath.
4. It was a long hard road for Tatiana Suarez to obtain her title. Now that she is here, she takes control of the female straw weight division?
Mandrel: I feel like I said Tatiana Suarez One day to be a champion for a decadeAnd I can’t come back to it now. She succeeded so far, finally, and it would be a disappointment of all time if she does not realize this hanging carrot of a dream after all that she went through.
I think she does it in Australia, although I think Zhang Weili will make things incredibly difficult. I do not think it is the unilateral traffic that we saw in the previous Suarez fights. Zhang is built like an anvil. His hands, I swear, are made of six million layers of densely compressed jute. Just a robust fighter with power and an unknown average sequence.
But Tatiana will finally have her belt. And I must say that it will feel good for someone who was about to replace Zabit Magomdsharipov on the “What What If” list.
Petise: Why do you even ask me? Mr. “5-0” Mindenhall (in terms of choice of main cards in 2025) should be the only person that people should listen to at this stage.
You are right, however – when we were presented to him for the first time, it seemed that it was only a matter of time before seeing Suarez fight for a belt. However, as her inactivity because of the injury has become commonplace, I doubted that she could go unscathed from a camp to reach a league date.
The crossed fingers, a few days before his meeting with Zhang Weili, it seems that the date has finally arrived and – damn Chuck, I think she will do the work.
5. Apart from the title of the fights at the top, what is the discreet banger on the UFC 312?
Petise: There is not much to excite on this map outside the two fights. It really lacks the flair and the support cast that we saw on the UFC 311 with Payton Talbott, Ailin Perez and Kevin Holland.
I am a little intrigued by the beginnings of the brother of Ilia Topuria, Aleksandre, who shakes the curtain against another beginner, Colby thick. And you can call me a brand, but I was all in the Wang Cong Build as Alex Pereira in Israel Adesanya from Valentina Shevchenko. I can’t wait to see if she can come back to the column of victories when she faces Bruna Brasil of the Nerds of the fights.
Mandrel: Everyone has fun tonight, Petesy. Everyone Wang Cong tonight.
I will see myself.
But I leave you with this: Jake Matthews is a silent wonder that I always appreciate. One has the impression that he has been fighting since the fertittas arrived and bought the UFC, but he was only 30 years old. Somewhere in his attic, there is a Portrait of himself in the stages of hideous decadence. However, he goes there to fight every time, especially when he is in competition in his native Australia. I think he and Francisco Prado will be in the running for a night bonus.
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