UFC 312 fight cancelled as Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis meet again

This weekend's paper sees Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis spell head-to-head erstwhile again, but 1 cardinal combat connected the undercard has been scrapped

The UFC 312 pay-per-view paper mislaid a flyweight undercard showdown conscionable minutes earlier the authoritative weigh-ins successful Sydney.

Saturday nighttime sees the instrumentality of Dricus Du Plessis, who volition beryllium looking to successfully support his middleweight rubric for a 2nd clip against a acquainted foe successful Sean Strickland. The brace archetypal went head-to-head past January and produced a memorable dust-up, with Du Plessis fixed the motion connected points.

The triumph handed the South African the middleweight strap. He would past spell connected to support the coveted prize a fewer months aboriginal against erstwhile king Israel Adesanya. As for Strickland, the out-spoken American returned past June, defeating Paulo Costa via divided determination successful a 5 circular slugfest.

This clip around, though, some men volition beryllium looking to enactment connected a much convincing show alternatively than leaving their destiny successful the hands of the judges. The brace made the title bounds of 185lbs earlier this morning. When tipping the scales, Du Plessis looked much drained that the challenger. There was immoderate flimsy play up of the weigh-in amusement - that resulted successful a combat being scrapped disconnected the aboriginal prelims.

Popular UFC commentator Jon Anik confirmed that Hyun Sung Park's flyweight bout with Nyamjargal Tumendemberel had been cancelled. According to reports, Tumendemberel had issues with cutting down to the 125lb limit. Eventually, neither combatant would spell connected to weigh-in.

Tumendemberel featured connected the Road to UFC earlier putting pen-to-paper connected a woody with the MMA organisation. After losing connected his promotional debut against Carlos Hernandez, the Mongolian prima was itching to get backmost successful the triumph file and prime up his archetypal authoritative triumph wrong the UFC cage. As for Hyun-sung, the undefeated South Korean was looking to support his cleanable grounds intact successful what would've been his archetypal combat since 2023.

Thankfully, determination were nary different issues connected the scales arsenic each different combatant made weight. The co-main lawsuit this play sees a mouthwatering strawweight rubric combat betwixt Zhang Weili and Tatiana Suarez. Weili volition beryllium looking to adhd different awesome sanction to her CV, but arguably faces her toughest trial yet successful Suarez.

Despite some Du Plessis and Strickland having a spot of communal respect for each other’s skillset, the brace were inactive speedy to commercialized barbs during the property league earlier this week. “Let maine archer you thing astir the Dutchman, which is simply a chill nickname by the way,” began Strickland. “This antheral fights similar a r***** connected a abbreviated autobus and hey, Dricus, I respect you for that due to the fact that you combat similar a f—— maniac! But, I won that combat and I’m gonna triumph this combat truthful f****** saddle up and let’s get it done!” The champion, unwilling to backmost down, had a brutal effect to the American's stunning comments. “Yeah, I combat similar idiosyncratic connected the abbreviated bus, but you look similar the driver, helium said. "You’re not allowed adjacent kids with that look anymore.”