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Charles Curtis

Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis take their vicious UFC 296 fight in crowd to social media

One of the biggest fights at UFC 296 wasn’t in the octagon.

Nope, it was in the crowd. But it was between two MMA fighters who will be facing each other in the future.

Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis will face each other at UFC 297 in January, and they had words for each other at a recent press conference. Oddly, the pair were seated near each other and came to blows in the crowd — MMA Junkie reports Dana White and security broke up the melee and Strickland was forced to leave.

But the fight didn’t stop there: The two called each other out on X (formerly Twitter):

And here’s footage of the fight:

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