{"id":2046,"date":"2026-09-24T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/2026\/09\/24\/dricus-du-plessis-the-middleweight-champion-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:54:59","slug":"dricus-du-plessis-the-middleweight-champion-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/2026\/09\/24\/dricus-du-plessis-the-middleweight-champion-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dricus Du Plessis: the middleweight champion, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/dricus-du-plessis\/\">Dricus Du Plessis<\/a>, \u201cStilknocks\u201d, holds the middleweight title with a record of 24-3-0. Six of those wins have come in title fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How the wins came: 83% of 24 wins have come inside the distance \u2014 9 by knockout, 11 by submission. The other four went to the judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Du Plessis stands 6&#039;1&quot;, with a 76&quot; reach, fights switch, out of Team CIT, and is 32 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last time out: a win over <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/kamaru-usman\/\">Kamaru Usman<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/mma_event\/ufc-fight-night-du-plessis-vs-usman\/\">UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman<\/a> (Unanimous decision).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is chasing the belt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No. 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/nassourdine-imavov\/\">Nassourdine Imavov<\/a> (17-4-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/sean-strickland\/\">Sean Strickland<\/a> (31-7-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/khamzat-chimaev\/\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> (15-1-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/israel-adesanya\/\">Israel Adesanya<\/a> (24-6-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/robert-whittaker\/\">Robert Whittaker<\/a> (28-9-0)<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24-3-0, 83% of 24 wins have come inside the distance \u2014 9 by knockout, 11 by submission. The middleweight champion\u2019s record, the finish rate and the five contenders closest to the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}