There is no debate after UFC 312, Dricus du Plessis is the rightful UFC middleweight champion. Questions remain about who the promotion's best 185-pounder is. Fortunately, those questions could be answered this year.

UFC 312 featured a number of undefeated fighters losing their shine, a middleweight champ quietly plugging through the leaderboard and a wrestler who couldn’t buy a takedown.

UFC 312 saw a pair of champions go the full 25 minutes to retain their respective titles. Middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis defeated challenger Sean Strickland by unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45,

The co-main event features Zhang Weili defending the women's strawweight title against top contender Tatiana Suarez. The American won "The Ultimate Fighter" Season 23 in her UFC debut and has won all seven of her UFC bouts. Weili is on her second run as champion and is one of the best strawweights in UFC history.

Reigning UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis and strawweight champion Zhang Weili both produced dominant displays in Sydney, Australia as they retained their titles in fine style at UFC 312. The two title fights topped a fight card packed with Australian stars.

Zhang Weili is still champion after UFC 312. In the co-main event Saturday at Qudos Bank Center in Sydney, Weili (26-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) largely shut down first-time challenger Tatiana Suarez and retained her strawweight title via unanimous decision (49-46,

Despite entering as the betting underdog at UFC 312, Zhang Weili looked like the best fighter in 115-pound history on Saturday in a dominant defense of her women's strawweight title.  Zhang (26-3), a two-time champion,

Zhang Weili shut down Tatiana Suarez’s wrestling and punished the challenger to ultimately win a lopsided decision to retain her title in the UFC 312 co-main event

Two-time women's strawweight champion Zhang Weili put here title on the line in the UFC 312 co-main event against top contender Tatiana Suarez.

In the co-main event of UFC 312, we are going to see a huge championship fight in the strawweight division. A fight that felt destined to happen will finally go down as longtime champion and P4P great Zhang Weili (25-3) takes on undefeated challenger Tatiana Suarez (10-0).