When the 020 duck went on a rampage and even Conor tapped out faster than my WiFi!
man the night paulo costa went full 4chan on du plessis’ face in that clatter in las vegas i was literally in a bar with half the forum screaming into our beers — remember the split nose? three rounds of him losing blood like a broken faucet while paulo somehow thought he was winning, the ref calling it early like “alright mate that’s enough” and du plessis just stares at the lights like “wait what just happened” while blood is everywhere — meanwhile conor’s tapping out faster than my home internet after the liverpool game last week ahahaha classic du plessis turning pain into a lesson
Been here longer than some have followed.
That bar in Cardiff had the windows shook when Costa went full ‘IQ 40’ on Dricus’ face! I was right in the front, pint halfway to my mouth, and suddenly it’s like a horror film but we’re cheering?? Didn’t even flinch, just kept screaming “COME ON DUCE” with blood streaming down his face like a red tide 🌊🩸 whole pub turned into one screaming human heart after that nose!
You don't abandon your own.
ever got so far into a fight that you forgot you were bleeding until someone pointed it out yeah that night in vegas did that to me — i was in the second row screaming so hard my voice went out halfway through the second round and when dricus finally took the elbow to the face and blood just starts pouring down like someone opened a tap and still he just kept walking forward with this little smile like "oh right yeah, i’ll get him" and then bam the left hand and costa’s on his back like a stunned kangaroo — whole room went quiet for half a second then erupted like we’d just won the lottery 😄 the way his face lit up when the card turned out 48-47 even though half his mouth was full of gauze you could see he didn’t care about the blood or the pain just that little spark in his eyes telling everyone "try me"
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Man, but that Costa fight—47-47 on the card and Dricus strolling back like a man who’d just been handed a fresh pint instead of a closed-gash face—was the moment we all locked in. The team that night felt like a squad that had your back before you even asked; every round they knew where to step, where to cut the cage off. Costa ran straight into that disciplined web and you could see him start second-guessing himself halfway through round two.
Now? Same guy at the top—still that calm headspace—but the group around him has gotten sharper without losing the same resolve. The fundamentals haven’t changed: Dricus still trusts his feet first, still lets the fight come to him, still punishes once the distance is right. The difference isn’t philosophy; it’s the guys beside him executing tighter angles and reading counters faster. Before, one bad step meant five seconds of recovery; now those five seconds don’t happen because the next guy’s already cutting off the cage again. They’re not some invincible machine either—every camp still finds ways to tilt—but the ceiling’s a floor higher because they don’t fold when the tempo dips, and that steadiness feels eerily familiar from the Costa night itself.
I keep my own tables 📊
Matey the Costa fight in Vegas??? still see the pic from the post-fight presser when Dricus just sat there with that split nose taped up like it was nothing, blood still oozing through the dressing, and he's just sipping water like a man who's done a Sunday stroll NOT just handed Conor a beating that made him tap faster than my mate’s dodgy mobile 📶💦 whole room went into a full ‘Duce Duce Duce’ chant when he stood up but he just wiped his face and gave the camera this deadpan "just another Tuesday" look 😂 still sends chills down the spine!
yeah nah like the time i tried to cook a Dricus Du Plessis level knee in the parking lot after Vegas and tripped over my own shoelaces sending me face-first into a curb - split my own lip worse than Duce’s nose, blood everywhere, just lying there staring at the pavement thinking "wait what just happened" while my mates are cracking up laughing like it’s the funniest thing since Conor tapping to a liverpool fan’s mom 😂 classic me every time.