Of their first assembly in Toronto at UFC 297, Strickland had success together with his jab within the early rounds and landed extra strikes than Du Plessis, however the South African reduce Strickland’s eye within the fourth.
Strickland completed strongly and the battle went to the judges’ scorecards, the place Du Plessis triumphed 48-47, 48-47, 47-48.
The South African has studied footage of that assembly and modified his technique as he appears to safe a ninth straight victory in UFC.
“There’s a number of familiarities, however clearly we noticed the errors we made and we made the changes,” he mentioned.
“We noticed areas the place we’re higher than him and the place we are able to do even higher, and he noticed the identical with us.
“So we needed to repair each mistake as a result of now they know these errors, so they’re going to attempt to exploit that.
“With this battle camp, what we labored on is the whole lot that I did to do it higher, faster and extra exact, extra correct.
“I can not make small errors. The margin for error shall be even smaller, so I have to be good on battle evening.”
