UFC Oklahoma City Post Show: Dricus du Plessis beat up Kamaru Usman, but what did it do for him?

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Holy shh, that's impressive. So I've been muted this whole time. That rocks.
Thanks, chat. Man, that was a really long intro that just doesn't count.
I kind of just want to restart this whole thing. So, hey guys, what are you, what are you here? Do you hear that? It's the Victory Horns, everybody.
Sorry, man. It's been a late night. I've been covering a lot of things and I just straight up was not paying attention. So hand up, that's on me.
Those Victory Horns, they sound for Dricus du Plessis, who defeated Kamaru Usman, the unanimous decision tonight. They also sound for Johnny Eblen, who won over in PFL. They sound for Colby Covington, who won over in RAF.
What a... That rocks.
The point here being, guys, is we're here to chat about it, the UFC OKC post show. Give you a rundown of everything that happened tonight. We'll chat.
I'm so sorry about that. This is what I need Mike Heck for. I'm useless without Mike Heck around. But the point being, Dricus du Plessis has been victorious and kind of kicked the shit out of Kamaru Usman. Can we just say that? Yeah.
That fight was it was I had been. I had such a great speech. You guys just don't miss. That fight was not close. It was competitive, but it wasn't super close. Dricus wins 50-45 and then two 49-46 is, I'm guessing I haven't seen the scorecards. I'm guessing they gave Usman the fifth round. I think that to me, that's the only one that would make any level of sense, because mostly I thought Dricus was just kind of... He was the guy doing all the damage in the fight and really just sort of running away with that early. I thought it was at least 4-0 heading into the final round. I think you could make an argument for one of those rounds being a 10-8. You don't have to, I'm not opposed to it.
Also the stoppage, I forget who the referee was, so I apologize for that. But the eye poke stoppage was pretty poor. I thought that was when Usman was in the most trouble. They got to restart it fairly quickly, but my big takeaway, I had two large takeaways from that fight, the main event. And if you guys have more, get them in there. We'll try and do some back and forth of y'all. My big takeaway is one, Dricus du Plessis, still good. He didn't show me anything new or different. Still super awkward, but hits really hard, quite physical, has a pretty sound tactical approach to what he wants to do on the feet, even if it does look super goofy at times. But my big takeaway is, man, Kamaru Usman is just strong like an oak. Like he was not close to winning that fight really, like he just wasn't, but he was, every time he got jawed, which was several times, he got hurt, he got wobbled, he'd stanky leg, you know, he would get a little funky chicken leg going on. And he would just sort of compose himself and be like, bam, we're done. Like that's it, like I'm back, I'm back in business. It was incredible because he kept getting, he got hurt by like a lot of smaller stuff too. You would see it put a little bit of a stilt in him. And then he just sort of like, no, nevermind, I'm okay. At the end, I didn't see all of the comments at the end, but it looks like he put some of it down to the punch that swelled up his left eye. Fair enough, like that was a problem. That was also a legal punch, so it is what it is. But I was impressed by Usman's ability to perform this well, this late into his career against a very difficult opponent, even if at, again, at no point was he likely to win that. You know, a good performance from Du Plessis, this is not the sort of performance he wanted, right? If he's going to come out to make a statement and say, oh, yeah, give me Shawn Strickland.