BREAKING NEWS: ‘Stillknocks’ has put South Africa on the map

GAUTENG – Dricus Du Plessis took the UFC middleweight belt off defender Sean Stickland’s hands via a split-decision victory at UFC 297 in Toronto on Saturday night. In doing so, he became the first South African champion in the promotion’s 30-year history.

Social media was awash with videos of South Africans celebrating du Plessis’ watershed win on Sunday morning, an indication that MMA is no longer the underground bloodfest it was once viewed as.

In other news, the rapper Drake had placed a R13 million bet that South Africa’s Dricus “Stillknocks” du Plessis would lose his UFC 297 middleweight title fight. Drake did not know that Dricus was bringing his a-game to the event!