Overview
- Dricus du Plessis won a clear unanimous decision over Kamaru Usman in the UFC Oklahoma City main event, with judges’ cards reading 50-45 and 49-46s.
- Usman told reporters he felt a finger to the eye during the fight, but broadcast replays and commentators showed knuckle contact and du Plessis’ coach called the foul claims "nonsense."
- Coach Morne Visser said du Plessis could have finished Usman and praised his fighter’s measured game plan after an 11-month layoff.
- Du Plessis has publicly called for another middleweight title opportunity and now holds renewed leverage in a crowded 185-pound division.
- Usman’s short-term plans remain unsettled after the loss, leaving open whether he will stay at middleweight or return to welterweight and creating potential matchups that could reorder title contention.