Dricus Du Plessis
South AfricaDricus Du Plessis, “Stilknocks”, is a Middleweight from South Africa with an official record of 23-3. MMA Hub holds 25 of those bouts: 22 wins and 3 losses, the wins coming 8 by knockout, 10 by submission and 4 by decision. The most recent bout on file is a decision win over Kamaru Usman at UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman on 18 July 2026.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Round | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2026 | Kamaru Usman | WIN | DECDecision | R5 · - | UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman |
| Aug 16, 2025 | Khamzat ChimaevTitle | LOSS | DECDecision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev |
| Feb 8, 2025 | Sean StricklandTitle | WIN | DECDecision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2 |
| Aug 17, 2024 | Israel AdesanyaTitle | WIN | SUBRear Naked Choke | R4 · 3:38 | UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya |
| Jan 20, 2024 | Sean StricklandTitle | WIN | DECDecision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis |
| Jul 8, 2023 | Robert Whittaker | WIN | KOPunches | R2 · 2:23 | UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez |
| Mar 4, 2023 | Derek Brunson | WIN | KOPunches | R2 · 4:59 | UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane |
| Dec 10, 2022 | Darren Till | WIN | SUBNeck Crank | R3 · 2:43 | UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev |
| Jul 2, 2022 | Brad Tavares | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Trevin Giles | WIN | KOPunch | R2 · 1:41 | UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 |
| Oct 10, 2020 | Markus Perez | WIN | KOPunch | R1 · 3:22 | UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Brendan Lesar | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R1 · 4:15 | EFC 83: EFC Worldwide 83 |
| Sep 14, 2019 | Joilton Lutterbach | WIN | KOTKO (Punches) | R2 | KSW 50: De Fries vs. Henrique |
| Oct 6, 2018 | Roberto SoldićTitle | LOSS | KOKO/TKO | R3 | KSW 45: de Fries vs. Bedorf |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Roberto SoldićTitle | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R2 | KSW 43: Janikowski vs. Bahati |
| Aug 19, 2017 | Yannick BahatiTitle | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R1 · 1:30 | EFC 62: EFC Worldwide 62 |
| May 13, 2017 | Jose Mauricio da Rocha Jr. | WIN | KOTKO | R1 · 3:58 | EFC 59: EFC Worldwide 59 |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Rafal Haratyk | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R2 · 3:34 | EFC 56: EFC Worldwide 56 |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Martin van StadenTitle | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R3 | EFC: Extreme Fighting Championship 50 |
| Dec 12, 2015 | Bruno Belabela Mukulu | WIN | SUBSubmission (Rear Naked Choke) | R2 | EFC: Extreme Fighting Championship 46 |
| Jun 6, 2015 | Dino Bagattin | WIN | SUBSubmission (Rear Naked Choke) | R2 · 3:33 | EFC: Extreme Fighting Championship 40 |
| Feb 21, 2015 | Darren Daniel | WIN | SUBSubmission (Rear Naked Choke) | R1 · 4:50 | EFC: Extreme Fighting Championship 37 |
| Aug 30, 2014 | Garreth McLellanTitle | LOSS | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R3 · 2:12 | EFC Africa: Extreme Fighting Champ. Africa 33 |
| Oct 10, 2013 | Johannes Coenraad Lamprecht | WIN | SUBSubmission (Rear Naked Choke) | R3 · 1:54 | EFC Africa: Extreme Fighting Champ. Africa 24 |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Tshikangu Makuebo | WIN | KOTKO | R1 · 1:18 | EFC Africa: Extreme Fighting Champ. Africa 21 |
Wins, losses and draws are Dricus Du Plessis’s official record. Everything else is counted from the 25 bouts we hold a full result for — method, round and time. Per-fight striking and grappling statistics are not published in our data source, so they are not shown.
Dricus Du Plessis’s record, in numbers
Dricus Du Plessis’s official record is 23-3. Every figure on this page is counted instead from the 25 bouts MMA Hub holds a result for — 22 wins, 3 losses — because 1 bout from the official record is not in the history we hold.
The 22 wins break down as 8 by knockout, 10 by submission and 4 by decision — 18 of 22 inside the distance, a finish rate of 82%. Across the 24 of 25 bouts with a recorded finishing round, the average bout lasted 10 minutes 2 seconds.
Dricus Du Plessis has been stopped twice in the 25 bouts on file — 1 by knockout and 1 by submission — which is 8% of them.
Of the 25 bouts MMA Hub holds a result for, 9 were for a title and 8 were the main event of the card. Four of them have come since July 2024.
Set against the 392 Middleweight fighters MMA Hub holds eight or more bouts for, Dricus Du Plessis has a finish rate above 66% of them, a record of avoiding stoppage above 80% of them and a two-year bout count above 85% of them. The comparison is made inside the division rather than across the whole roster, because how often a division finishes depends heavily on what it weighs.
Dricus Du Plessis is listed at 6ft 1in with a reach of 76in, switches stance and is 32, born 14 January 1994.
These figures are recomputed from Dricus Du Plessis’s bout history each time results are synced, so they follow the record rather than a fixed snapshot.