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Dricus Du Plessis
“Stillknocks”
Middleweight
South Africa#2 MiddleweightUFC
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24WINS
3LOSSES
0DRAWS
9KO/TKO
11SUB
4DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 32 · born Jan 14, 1994 UFC.com
- Height
- 6′1″ 185 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 76″ 193 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 43″ 109 cm UFC.com
- Stance
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- Weight class
- Middleweight UFC.com
- UFC ranking
- #2 Middleweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- MMA UFC.com
- Team / gym
- CIT MMA UFC.com
- Born
- Welkom, South Africa UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- South Africa UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Oct. 10, 2020 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 8 UFC.com
UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)
UFC career stats
49%Striking accuracy906 of 1851 landed
4%Takedown accuracy2⚑ of 45 landed
5.21Sig. strikes landedper min
4.24Sig. strikes absorbedper min
54%Striking defense
1.9Takedownsper 15 min
50%Takedown defense
0.6Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.35Knockdownsper 15 min
15:48Average fight time
⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.
Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22
UFC fight history 11 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Kamaru Usman | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Jul 18, 2026 | ↗ |
| L | Khamzat Chimaev | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Aug 16, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Sean Strickland | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Feb 8, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Israel Adesanya | Submission | 4 | Aug 17, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Sean Strickland | Decision - Split | 5 | Jan 20, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Robert Whittaker | KO/TKO | 2 | Jul 8, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | 2 | Mar 4, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Darren Till | Submission | 3 | Dec 10, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Brad Tavares | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jul 2, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Trevin Giles | KO/TKO | 2 | Jul 10, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Markus Perez | KO/TKO | 1 | Oct 10, 2020 | ↗ |
UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.