UFC 297 takes place on Saturday at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada. This card features a middleweight title fight between Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis as the Main Event and Raquel Pennington against Mayra Bueno Silva for the Women’s bantamweight title as the Co-Main Event. Here are our best bets for this UFC card.
Be sure to also check out the rest of our UFC predictions for all of the Main Card fights.
UFC 297 Main Card Best Bet
The Main Event at UFC 297 will see Sean Strickland take on Dricus Du Plessis. This will be a fight in the UFC Middleweight division and will be for the UFC Middleweight title. Strickland comes into this fight with an MMA record of 28-5. He is 15-5 in the UFC, most recently beating Israel Adesanya by unanimous decision back in September of 2023. Strickland is averaging 5.82 significant strikes per minute and has a striking accuracy of 41%. He is absorbing 4.24 strikes and has a striking defense of 63%.
Du Plessis comes into this fight with an MMA record of 20-2. He is 6-0 in the UFC, most recently beating Robert Whittaker by KO/TKO back in July of 2023. Du Plessis is averaging 6.95 significant strikes per minute and has a striking accuracy of 55%. He is absorbing 3.79 strikes and has a striking defense of 53%. As for his grappling, Du Plessis is averaging 2.72 takedowns per every 15 minutes and 1.1 submission attempts during the same time period.