Really hard to watch this fight with a keen eye and say Du Plessis won.

Strickland landed a lot more strikes and they were much cleaner, he slipped / parried almost all of Du Plessis hand strikes, he checked a ton of leg kicks, was never controlled on the ground and got up immediately every time he was taken down.

Strickland took rounds 1,3,5 fairly clearly imo and round two was extremely even. Not mad at that round going either way. Looking forward to the rematch.