LAS VEGAS – After two reasonably quick outings in his first two UFC fights, Dricus Du Plessis is glad to have some serious cage time under his belt after UFC 276. Du Plessis (17-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC) went the distance with Brad Tavares (19-7 MMA, 14-7 UFC) in their middleweight fight on the preliminary card. Tavares was a bloody mess after the fight, but it was a bout in which Du Plessis had to battle back to win the second and third rounds. After first-round knockouts over Markus Perez and Trevin Giles in his first two UFC fights in 2020 and 2021, and nearly a year since the latter bout after several cancellations, the South African said he’s fine not getting a finish in this case. “If a decision had to be like that, I’ll go to a decision every time,” Du Plessis said at his post-fight news conference at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
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