LAS VEGAS – Not many are giving Dricus Du Plessis a chance, and Robert Whittaker finds that crazy.
The former UFC middleweight champion doesn’t understand why fans, pundits and fighters are taking Du Plessis (19-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) lightly ahead of Saturday’s UFC 290 showdown. Whittaker (25-6 MMA, 15-4 UFC) thinks it’s a big mistake to not consider Du Plessis a legitimate threat, and that’s likely why Du Plessis is still unbeaten in the UFC.
“I don’t understand anybody who underestimates their opponents,” Whittaker said at Wednesday’s media day. “We’re in the fight game, in the best company in the world with the best fighters in the world. I don’t understand where you think every single one of those guys in the division isn’t going to knock your block off. It just seems a little silly.
