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South African MMA star Dricus du Plessis has questioned the authenticity of former Africa-born champions Francis Ngannou, Israel Adesanya and Kamaru Usman in a shocking outburst.
Du Plessis, who racked up his seventh consecutive win last weekend with a knockout victory over Derek Brunson at UFC 285, is aiming for a shot at the middleweight title - and believes winning the belt would make him the first true African champ.
'Did those belts ever go to Africa? As far as I know, they came to America and New Zealand. I'm going to take a belt to Africa,' he said of the titles won by the trio at a recent media day.
'I'm the African fighter in the UFC. Myself and Cameron [Saaiman, Du Plessis' teammate], we breathe African air. We wake up in Africa every day. We train in Africa, we're African born, we're African raised. We still reside in Africa, we train out of Africa. That's an African champion, and that's who I'll be.'
South African MMA star Dricus du Plessis plans to win a UFC belt soon, and has questioned the authenticity of the three former African champions before him
Du Plessis, who racked up his seventh consecutive win over the weekend with a knockout victory over Derek Brunson at UFC 285, is aiming for a shot at the middleweight title
Du Plessis' comments have rubbed some MMA fighters up the wrong way, including Nigerian-American featherweight Sodiq Yusuff.
Yusuff shared a video of Du Plessis and commented that it was 'like
