The middleweight belt is on the line at this weekend's UFC 312 bout which will be headlined by Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis. It is the South African, Du Plessis who currently holds the middleweight title and will face Strickland for the second time.

Set your alarms early and get ready for a brutal, tantalizing, physical showdown between arch-rivals Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland.

With both fighters being deceptively difficult to kill, their first encounter back at UFC 297 ended up being a tactical, back-and-forth battle that saw Du Plessis narrowly scrape out a split decision win on the scorecards to become the new champion at 185 pounds.