Israel Adesanya has taken aim at Dricus Du Plessis after his N-word-laiden rant following the South African's win over Robert Whittaker at UFC 290 in Las Vegas.
The middleweight world champion has a long-standing feud with Du Plessis after he claimed to be the UFC's only true African fighter due to staying in South Africa for his fight camps. And the pair are likely to fight later this year after their heated face-off on Saturday night.
Adesanya is from Nigeria but lives and trains in New Zealand, while his fellow Africans Kamaru Usman and Francis Ngannou are former world champions. But Du Plessis has argued that he would be the promotion's first truly African champion, which has enraged the Nigerian and led to an X-rated speech on Saturday.