UFC 297 Odds: Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis Predictions and Best Bets
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UFC is set to host their first major pay-per-view show of the year 2024, UFC 297. UFC’s newly crowned middleweight champion Sean Strickland will headline the UFC 297 event and will defend his UFC middleweight championship against UFC fighter Dricuss Du Plessis.
Du Plessis and Strickland are engaged in a high-voltage rivalry, with both superstars trading personal blows at each other. Both even got into a physical fight at UFC 296, where Strickland launched an attack on Du Plessis.
Plessis even revealed that UFC management including Dana White asked him if he could fill a lawsuit against Sean Strickland for attacking him outside the Octagon. To which Du Plessis denied it and said this is the nature of this sport.
The co-main will be for the vacant UFC women’s bantamweight championship. Former UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes vacated the UFC bantamweight championship after she announced her retirement at UFC 289.
UFC 297 Odds
Main Card
Arnold Allen (+137)
Prelims Card:
Early-Prelims
UFC 297 Main Event - Sean Strickland vs Dricus Du Plessis
Newly crowned UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland will main-event UFC 297, the first major event of UFC year 2024. Strickland is set to defend his title against Dricuss Du Plessis, and this will mark Tarzan's first championship defense.
Strickland captured the UFC middleweight championship in 2023, at UFC 293, after he defeated Israel Adasenya and shocked the mixed martial world.
Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis are currently involved in an intense rivalry, after exchanging some blows online, both confronting each other at the UFC 2024 press conference, where Strickland talked about Du Plessis’ relationship with his coach.
Du Plessis did not take a backseat and fired some personal shots at Sean Strickland mentioning his traumatic childhood and his father. Later at UFC 296, Strickland launched an attack on Dricus Du Plessis.
UFC 297 Predictions
Main Card:
Sean Strickland (-125) vs. Dricus du Plessis (+105) for the UFC middleweight title.
Prediction: Dricus du Plessis (+105), Strickland captured the UFC middleweight championship at UFC 293, after defeating former two times UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya. Defeating a decorated champion like Israel Adesanya is not a luck game, and it needs a high level of skills and mindset.
Strickland knows how to take the pressure and handle it. Additionally, he has more experience than Dricus Du Plessis. But Stillknocks is not a man who is here to wait. He has an impressive win streak in UFC of 6 wins and no losses.
He possesses the power to knock people out, as he has showcased his power in his previous fights. On the other hand, Strickland is one of the best boxers in the division but he keeps his guards low, which could be the biggest problem for him in a fight with a force like Dricus Du Plessis.
Our pick for this fight would be Dricus Du Plessis via a knockout.
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Prediction: Mike Malott (-165)
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Prediction: Movsar Evloev (-165)
Prelims Card
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Prediction: Brad Katona (-190)
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Early Prelims Card
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