The build-up to UFC 305 on August 17 is sure to have some tense moments due to the grudge match that will take place in the main event.
Dricus Du Plessis knew that he was going to be stirring the pot when he said that by becoming the middleweight champion, he would be the first true African to hold gold.
What he meant was that unlike the likes of Kamaru Usman, Francis Ngannou and Israel Adesanya, who he faces in Perth, he has become champion whilst still living and training out of South Africa.
Adesanya took major issue with these comments but they will finally get the chance to settle the score in their upcoming clash.
Unsurprisingly, "The Last Stylebender" wasn't the only fighter on the roster with African roots that feels offended by what Du Plessis had to say.
Abdul Razak Hassan Launches Into Fired-Up Rant About Dricus Du Plessis' Comments
Abdul Razak Alhassan is set to make his return this weekend in Denver when he takes on Cody Brundage and looks to bounce back from a defeat last time out.
During his media day interviews, the middleweight livewire was asked for his opinion on the conversation based on the fact that he represents Ghana.
What followed was an incredibly passionate and heated speech from Alhassan about Du Plessis's words.
He believes that the middleweight champion would not have said these things if he knew what it meant to truly be African and battle through tough living situations early on in life.
I respect the things he's done in MMA but he's a f****** b****, he's a f****** a****** for that word that he used right. If he's a f****** real African and he lived in Africa, he would have never used that f****** word, he's a f****** b**** a** to use that word because an African, if he was raised with the poor people in Africa, the way I was raised, the way I grew up with how I go days without food. I have to go see my friends eating and I be like, 'Hey bro can you give me one teaspoon of your food so I can put it in my mouth?' That's how I'll survive for a few days until I can get money.
So if we get opportunity to leave that s***hole, of course I'm sorry, I'm not trying to call my country a s***hole but I'm poor. If I can go to America or I can go to a different country to make a better life for myself, I'll f****** cut off my leg to f****** go. If he is a true African, he would have understood that. That means he was living the comfortable life, his family had the money to feed him everyday so he didn't have to worry about leaving to go and make it so for him to say he's the true African champion that lived there and he made it, he's a f****** b**** for saying that. I respect what he's done but he's a b**** for that.
