South African sporting icons expected to walk Dricus du Plessis to cage at UFC 305

Dricus du Plessis can comprise the help of two South African sports actions legends earlier than his bout with Israel Adesanya at UFC 305, by the appears to be like to be of issues.

Du Plessis, who defends his middleweight crown on Saturday in Perth, Australia in the indispensable-ever UFC title fight to characteristic two African-born warring parties, will be walked to the cage by two of hardest compatriots: South African rugby captain Siya Kolisi and the expansive Springbok lock, Eben Etzebeth (pictured above, excellent).

Kolisi, who stands 6ft 1in and weighs in at round 230-kilos, is regarded as one of many most inspirational sporting figures in all of South Africa and closing year grew to turn into merely the second person in history to captain his nation to a abet-to-abet Rugby World Cup victory.

Etzebeth, in the meantime, who’s conclude to 6ft 9in expansive and weighs an unlimited 260-kilos, is well-known for being one of many sport’s most dominant enforcers and hails from a household of champion wrestlers (and as his bio states, ‘bar room brawlers’).

“We’re attempting to construct up Eben [Etzebeth] and Siya [Kolisi] to trail out with me and it appears to be like to be admire it’s a accomplished deal. They received’t be sitting in my nook however will trail out with me to the octagon which is comely particular,” Du Plessis acknowledged all the diagram via an interview with South African radio cloak KFM Mornings, as famend by talkSPORT.

“Because Perth is up to now forward, I’m struggling with on Sunday and the Springboks are having fun with on Saturday. All of them are going to be on the fight, and it’s going to be awesome,” Du Plessis added. “The Boks are having fun with, they are the pride of South Africa and then I’m struggling with, all on the the same weekend — talk about stars aligning.”