Dricus du Plessis reacts to Alex Pereira cornering Sean Strickland at UFC 312

DDP's Response To Team Strickland

With there being an obvious language barrier between Strickland and the Portuguese-speaking Pereira, du Plessis was taken aback by the news.

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"[Pereira] was in the corner in the first fight, too. I mean, he don't even speak the same language," du Plessis said in a recent interview with CBS Sports' Shakiel Mahjouri. "It doesn't really make a much of a difference whether he's in the corner, can't even understand his own coach. He's also American. How's he gonna understand Alex Pereira?"

When asked how Strickland's corner situation works, du Plessis replied with "it doesn't..."

Alex Pereira has trained with Sean Strickland numerous times in the sparring room after knocking out the former champion at UFC 276 in 2022, but "Poatan" isn't one to give Strickland corner advice, leaving that part to head coach Eric Nicksick on fight night.

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