Sean Strickland vs Dricus Du Plessis

UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis /20 Jan 2024 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada /Middleweight

Sean Strickland #3 C · volume striker 2313 ± 132

Title fight

No prediction stored for this bout

Dricus Du Plessis #2 · power puncher 2321 ± 140

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Tale of the tape

	Sean Strickland	Dricus Du Plessis
Record	15-5	6-0
Last fight	won vs Israel Adesanya (Decision - Unanimous, 2023-09-09)	won vs Robert Whittaker (KO/TKO, 2023-07-08)
Country	unknown	unknown
Height	73"	73"
Reach	76"	76"
Age	32.9	30.0
Stance	Orthodox	Switch
Weight class	Middleweight	Middleweight
Our rank	#3 C	#2
Style label	volume striker	power puncher

Style profile

Percentile within the division · the dashed ring is average · outward is always better

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Tale of the tape

Division percentile. The hover carries the raw numbers.

Sean Strickland Dricus Du Plessis

The numbers behind it

Rates are per 15 minutes of fight time, adjusted for the quality of what the opponent usually allows. Defence and accuracy figures are percentages. A wider ± means fewer rounds of evidence, and on the chart it is the whisker along that axis.

Metric	Sean Strickland	Division	Dricus Du Plessis	Division
Strikes landed /15 min	72.6 ± 21.7 99th percentile	49.2	59.4 ± 13.4 94th percentile	49.2
Strike avoidance absorbed /15 min	63.9 ± 9.6 5th percentile	53.6	57.0 ± 5.4 21st percentile	53.6
Takedown attempts /15 min	2.20 ± 1.71 1st percentile	4.06	3.81 ± 0.52 42nd percentile	4.06
Takedown defence %	58 ± 7 66th percentile	53	58 ± 10 74th percentile	53
Control time s /15 min	172 ± 24 6th percentile	196	197 ± 10 49th percentile	196
Striking defence %	54 ± 4 99th percentile	50	50 ± 2 32nd percentile	50
Knockdowns /15 min	0.70 ± 0.08 69th percentile	0.62	0.70 ± 0.12 71st percentile	0.62
Submission attempts /15 min	0.36 ± 0.34 1st percentile	0.73	0.63 ± 0.17 41st percentile	0.73

Metric	Sean Strickland	Division	Dricus Du Plessis	Division
Strikes landed /15 min	76.4 ± 14.4 97th percentile	62.8	65.5 ± 5.8 76th percentile	62.8
Strike avoidance absorbed /15 min	70.8 ± 4.4 13th percentile	67.0	65.1 ± 5.6 55th percentile	67.0
Takedown attempts /15 min	2.25 ± 1.91 3rd percentile	4.08	3.62 ± 0.86 34th percentile	4.08
Takedown defence %	67 ± 8 9th percentile	71	72 ± 7 78th percentile	71
Control time s /15 min	167 ± 34 8th percentile	198	189 ± 15 24th percentile	198
Striking defence %	53 ± 3 92nd percentile	51	50 ± 3 13th percentile	51
Knockdowns /15 min	1.18 ± 0.03 45th percentile	1.19	1.17 ± 0.04 24th percentile	1.19
Submission attempts /15 min	0.07 ± 0.07 3rd percentile	0.13	0.22 ± 0.16 92nd percentile	0.13

Metric	Sean Strickland	Division	Dricus Du Plessis	Division
Strikes landed /15 min	67.8 ± 25.2 97th percentile	59.3	59.2 ± 2.2 44th percentile	59.3
Strike avoidance absorbed /15 min	73.6 ± 12.4 3rd percentile	69.4	69.8 ± 3.6 38th percentile	69.4
Takedown attempts /15 min	4.35 ± 3.87 3rd percentile	5.66	5.43 ± 1.02 44th percentile	5.66
Takedown defence %	68 ± 8 25th percentile	69	70 ± 6 61st percentile	69
Control time s /15 min	201 ± 74 3rd percentile	226	220 ± 23 26th percentile	226
Striking defence %	52 ± 4 97th percentile	51	50 ± 2 15th percentile	51
Knockdowns /15 min	0.33 ± 0.07 9th percentile	0.35	0.33 ± 0.08 15th percentile	0.35
Submission attempts /15 min	0.17 ± 0.17 3rd percentile	0.22	0.31 ± 0.35 91st percentile	0.22

Rating over time

After the fight

Dricus Du Plessis by Decision - Split , round 5 at 5:00

The decision check flagged this fight. Dispute score 1.00 (at the ceiling — our judging model scored it 93.88% for the official loser); decision credit 0.75 / 0.25. A dispute score stops rising once our judging model passes 90% for the official loser, so scores at 1.00 are ordered by that percentage rather than by the score. Two fights within 0.01 of a percentage point read the same because the model cannot separate them.

Judges' cards

Derek Cleary	47	48
Eric Colon	47	48
Sal D'amato	48	47