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Given the rich history of boxing in South Africa, home country of world champions like “Baby” Jake Matlala, Brian Mitchell, Corrie Sanders and Lehlo Ledwaba, to name a few, it is surprising that no one has ever reached championship level in South Africa. UFC. But Dricus Du Plessis changed that last weekend by beating Sean Strickland for the middleweight crown, and it was a big win not only for “Stillknocks” but for a generation of fighters who might now view MMA as a career path instead of boxing. As for the new champion’s immediate future, he didn’t shy away from fighting former titleholder Israel Adesanya, and it’s a stylistic matchup made for fireworks at 185 pounds.
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