Forward of their UFC 319 showdown for the UFC Middleweight Title, Khamzat Chimaev and Dricus du Plessis have gone forwards and backwards on social media, buying and selling insults.
Chimaev took goal at du Plessis’ group, insinuating that his opponent and his coaches are donuts. The champion has since responded in brutal trend.
Khamzat Chimaev Takes Goal At Dricus Du Plessis’ Staff With Social Media Put up
Dricus du Plessis vs Khamzat Chimaev was formally introduced final week because the UFC 319 important occasion.
The pair have been rumored to be preventing one another for fairly a while, with final week’s affirmation now making the struggle official for August 19 in Chicago.
It appears that evidently MMA followers have needed this struggle for fairly a while, and now their want has been granted for a compelling UFC Middleweight Title showdown later this summer time.
With the struggle now lower than three months away, the pre-fight build-up has been gathering momentum. This consists of the fighters themselves, who’ve started buying and selling blows already on social media.
The most recent installment of their forwards and backwards on-line got here on Wednesday twenty first Might, with Khamzat Chimaev first insulting Dricus du Plessis and his group with a photograph captioned with a number of emojis.
The photograph is of the champion holding his 185-pound belt together with his 4 coaches round him. Chimaev has captioned the photograph with 5 donut emojis and a laughing face emoji, insinuating that the South African and his group are donuts.
Time will inform whether or not Chimaev’s insults are backed up contained in the cage when the pair meet in the midst of the octagon within the UFC 319 important occasion on August 19.
@dricusduplessis 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🤣 pic.twitter.com/nm1zYSi1lZ
— Khamzat Chimaev (@KChimaev) Might 20, 2025
Du Plessis Responds As Unhealthy Blood Boils Forward Of UFC 319 Showdown
With Khamzat Chimaev’s newest assault on Dricus du Plessis on social media, ‘Stillknocks’ hasn’t precisely let it fly.
The South African champion has hit again at ‘Borz’, commenting underneath Chimaev’s social media publish.
The UFC middleweight king wrote: “O s**t, would get you by there’s no i****d emoji.”
It’s clear to see that there isn’t a love misplaced between each Chimaev and du Plessis.
The pair will lastly be capable to settle their variations as soon as and for all on August 19 on the United Heart in Chicago, Illinois after they conflict in a very epic UFC Middleweight Title struggle.
Evidently there’ll most likely be much more forwards and backwards on social media between the pair between now and struggle night time.
It’s honest to say each males aren’t big followers of the opposite and might be chomping on the bit to get their palms on one another contained in the octagon in only a few months time.
