South African UFC middleweight champion wants to face Khamzat Chimaev next, before moving up to challenge Alex Pereira for the light heavyweight title.

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.

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.

A rematch between two of the UFC's top middleweights headline's UFC 312 when Dricus Du Plessis faces Sean Strickland. Get all of our UFC 312 predictions and best bets.

After each pay-per-view, we break down and assess the quality of each fight and the fight card itself based on skill displayed, competitiveness and what is at stake. Andreas Hale takes a look at all 12 fights of UFC 312,

Dricus Du Plessis didn’t like the way his first meeting with Sean Strickland ended in a split decision a little more than a year ago, so he made sure there was no doubt on Sunday at UFC 312 in Sydney.

Dricus du Plessis held on to his UFC middleweight title with a unanimous decision win in his rematch against Sean Strickland at UFC 312 from Qudos Bank

Dricus Du Plessis made sure there was no controversy over the scoring in his rematch with Sean Strickland on Saturday night, retaining his middleweight title in a near-shutout victory at UFC 312.