“You can expect a war again,” he said at the UFC 312 press conference. “I’m sitting with a tough guy, a guy who will never give up.

“There are two guys who go after that trying to kill each other. What else do you want? Isn’t that the perfect fight?”

You Plessis was silent compared to his vocal opponent, who worked Hausse before the fight at Qudos Bank Arena.

“Let me tell you something about the Dutch – which, by the way, is a cool nickname,” Strickland said. “This man is fighting as Af ****** Maniac and, dricus, I respect you for it.

“But I won that fight, and I will win this fight, so the f ****** saddle up and let’s get it done.”

On the question of the controversial nature of his defeat against Du Plessis in Toronto, when some claimed that Strickland was headbutted, the American added: “I take my LS as a man, and according to some blind judge won the Dutch. And I will give it to him.

“But he’s not f ****** wins Sunday, 25 minutes of f ****** war. It was by ****** headbutt, but even if it wasn’t f **** ** Matter because it won’t happen again.

“What will happen is that I will have that belt back in the states – don’t worry about it, Australian fans, we will win this.”

At you Plessis said Strickland: “The man has a cinder block for a head. You have seen him the next day the guy may be injured.

“We will probably have a five-round war, I will probably try to put down his **, he will try to put down my A **.

“To death, we will put on a war and try to open each other, and that is a promise that we will both make you.”

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