Video: Dricus Du Plessis makes Israel Adesanya cry during UFC 305 press conference: ‘You don’t know my story!’

The bad blood keeps getting worse ...

UFC 305 finally goes down tomorrow night (Sat., Aug. 17, 2024) from inside RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia, and the pay-per-view (PPV) main event just got much more heated. During UFC 305’s press conference that went down earlier this morning (watch here), Dricus Du Plessis touched a nerve with Israel Adesanya that made him very angry ... and then he cried moments after.

The two initially traded light jabs about the infamous “Africa” comments that triggered the feud (read allllll about that here). After Adesanya said he would travel to Nigeria, South Africa, and New Zealand after the fight, Du Plessis asked, “Will you be taking the servants with you?”

“The Last Stylebender” exploded.

“Bro, shut the f—k up,” Adesanya yelled. “You don’t know anything about my story! You have no idea who the f—k I am. Listen, my father and myself had to wake up at 4 a.m. and clean the banks while my mom studied to be a nurse. You don’t know my f—king story. Don’t f—king speak on my story if you don’t know my story. I will show you who you are on Sunday, so right now, shut the f—k up.... I’m not your f—king man, b—tch. You sound like a pig — I will slay you.”

Adesanya was asked a question one minute later and explained the reason(s) he got so emotional, while breaking down in tears.

“He touched a subject there because I do this for my family,” Adesanya said. “I do this for the people who I love, and I’ll fight for you forever — I swear to God. Look, I’m a human being. I’m a man. I can cry and whip your ass at the same time.”

Du Plessis might be the master of mind games right now in UFC. He made Sean Strickland cry, and now he’s made his opponent this weekend weep at the press conference.

To the death?

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