Built from Dricus Du Plessis’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 1" switch knockout puncher campaigning at Middleweight. 10 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 4 decision. Top 8% of Middleweights: lands 5.21 significant strikes a minute.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | Stillknocks |
| Nationality | South Africa |
| Born in | Welkom, Orange Free State, South Africa Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Hatfield, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Wikipedia |
| Camp | Team CIT |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 76" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 32 |
| Date of birth | Jan 14, 1994 |
| Weight | 185 lbs. |
| Pro record | 24-3 |
| UFC record | UFC 10-1 first fight 2020-10-10 · last fight 2026-07-18 |
| Finish split | 10 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 4 decision |
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Every week Dricus Du Plessis has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.
Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026
A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.
Career averages over Dricus Du Plessis’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Dricus Du Plessis’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.
FightIQ has called 1 of Dricus Du Plessis’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | Kamaru Usman | Dricus Du Plessis | 54.3% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Dricus Du Plessis’s fights, 6 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
Pro record: 24-3. In the UFC: 10-1. Dricus Du Plessis’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
5 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Kamaru Usman | UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman |
| 2024-01-20 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Sean Strickland | UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis |
| 2023-07-08 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Robert Whittaker | UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez |
| 2022-12-10 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Darren Till | UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev |
| 2021-07-10 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Trevin Giles | UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 |
The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.
Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | W | Kamaru Usman | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman |
| 2025-08-16 | L | Khamzat Chimaev | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev |
| 2025-02-08 | W | Sean Strickland | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2 |
| 2024-08-17 | W | Israel Adesanya | Submission | R4 | UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya |
| 2024-01-20 | W | Sean Strickland | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis |
| 2023-07-08 | W | Robert Whittaker | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez |
| 2023-03-04 | W | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane |
| 2022-12-10 | W | Darren Till | Submission | R3 | UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev |
| 2022-07-02 | W | Brad Tavares | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier |
| 2021-07-10 | W | Trevin Giles | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 |
| 2020-10-10 | W | Markus Perez | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
Dricus Du Plessis’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.
| Date | Opponent | Weight / limit | Division | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | Kamaru Usman | 185.5 / 186 | MADE | Middleweight | UFC.com |
Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.
The 7 cities Dricus Du Plessis has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.
Fights that have never been made, between fighters who are ranked right now. Our read on each one is on its own page, with no betting market behind it — because there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. None of it is a pick, and none of it is graded.