Cocaine Bear? Nah, cocaine chimps.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis and former Middleweight kingpin Sean Strickland will run it back in exactly one month (Sat., Feb. 8, 2025) in the main event of UFC 312, which will go down inside Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Today (Weds., Jan. 8, 2025), during UFC Vegas 101 media day (watch here), former Top 15 ranked Middleweight Chris Curtis, who returns to action this weekend again Roman Kopylov, offered his viewpoint on the upcoming 185 lb title fight.
“[The fight is playing out like] two coked-out chimpanzees in a phone booth,” Curtis told MMAMania.com. “Honestly, that’s just how Dricus fights. It’s like, what do you do? God, it’s so funny because, like everyone I know, always clowns how Dricus fights. It’s f—king wild. But you know what? God damn, it’s effective.”
“I really just want to see how this plays out because it’s such an awkward clash of two really awkward- probably the two most awkward people in the division, fighting each other. So, there’s a lot to take away from that. It’s an event. It’s like the short bus special…So I’m like, the two most awkward dudes in the division happen to be really good at fighting. I just want to see it.”
Curtis, a longtime friend and teammate of Strickland, is obviously picking “Tarzan” to reclaim the title even though the two recently got into a fight at the gym.
“There are times when I have debated hitting him with a brick. Like, not even joking, I’m like, ‘Bro, I’m gonna hit you with a f—king brick.’ Like, I don’t care where it goes,” Curtis said. “This time led to a fistfight as well. And we were really about to throw down, and the entire gym was like, ‘Are you guys really doing this?’ And I’m, like, threatening to cripple him before he fights Dricus. ‘I was like, ‘I will f—king cripple you!’ So, yeah, we get out of hand.’
It’s a good thing “The Action Man” didn’t maim Strickland, or else UFC 312 would have been ruined, and we’d be robbed of “two coked-out chimpanzees.”
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