Dricus Du Plessis has always had his fair share of critics during his UFC run, despite being undefeated inside the Octagon.
During his climb up the middleweight ladder, many were critical of his ability to fight at a constant pace over three rounds due to him becoming visibly tired in some of his earlier fights.
Even since there has been an improvement from "Stillknocks" in this area, there is often conversation about his unorthodox, and at times reckless-appearing approach which lacks finesse - but has been incredibly effective for him.
This was case and point in the main event of UFC 305 this past weekend where he was able to walk down and catch Israel Adesanya with big looping punches to hurt him and find the submission win in the fourth round.
Unfortunately for those that don't rate the champion's technique, he has been keeping receipts.
Dricus Du Plessis Reminds Steve Erceg Of His Criticism After UFC 305
After successfully defending the middleweight title for the first time, Du Plessis made sure to circle back to a few people who had doubted him or talked down on his ability during fight week.
There are clear elements of his game that you wouldn't necessarily teach a young fighter but the champ knows how to make it work for him.
One of the criticisms that clearly he took notice of was Steve Erceg labelling him as a 6/10 overall fighter due to some of his more unpredictable tendencies.
Erceg was stopped in front of his home fans in Perth this past weekend with Kai Kara-France securing a massive first-round win in the co-main event.
Via his Instagram story, Du Plessis took a moment to remind the former flyweight title challenger of what he had said after they ended up on opposite sides of the win column on August 17.
MMA fans reacted to the champion getting the last word in via social media.
"Dude has all the receipts. He's coming for everyone."
"this guy is against the whole world right now"
"Tbf erceg gave himself a 7, it seems like he just has a really high bar"
"If everyone doubted me like how they did I’d come back for everyone too"