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\nDricus Du Plessis will return at UFC Oklahoma City. |
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Oklahoma City is getting a marquee middleweight matchup.<\/p>\n
Dricus Du Du Plessis hasn\u2019t competed since last August, when he relinquished Usman is back in action for the first time since he outpointed Dricus Du Plessis will return at UFC Oklahoma City. | Getty\/UFC Oklahoma City is getting a marquee middleweight matchup. Dricus Du Plessis will square off against Kamaru Usman in a matchup of former title holders in the UFC Oklahoma City headliner, the Las Vegas-based promotion announced on Saturday. The event, also known as UFC Fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPlessis<\/a> will square off against Kamaru
\nUsman<\/a> in a matchup of former title holders in the UFC
\nOklahoma City<\/a> headliner, the Las Vegas-based promotion
\nannounced on Saturday. The event, also known as UFC Fight Night
\n281, takes place at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
\nand airs in its entirety on Paramount+.<\/p>\nHigh Stakes Affair<\/h2>\n
\nthe middleweight crown in a lopsided unanimous decision loss to
\nKhamzat
\nChimaev<\/a> at UFC 319. Prior to that, the South African standout
\nwas 9-0 in the Octagon, earning notable victories against the likes
\nof Sean
\nStrickland<\/a> (twice), Israel
\nAdesanya<\/a>, Robert
\nWhittaker<\/a>, Derek
\nBrunson<\/a> and Darren
\nTill<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nJoaquin
\nBuckley<\/a> in the UFC on ESPN 69 headliner last June. While there
\nwere rumors that \u201cThe Nigerian Nightmare\u201d would be next in line for
\na title shot against Islam
\nMakhachev<\/a>, that ultimately did not come to fruition. Usman\u2019s
\nwelterweight championship reign began with a five-round verdict
\nover Tyron
\nWoodley<\/a> at UFC 235, and he authored five successful defenses
\nbefore relinquishing the strap to Leon
\nEdwards<\/a> in August 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"