Du Plessis clarifies Adesanya family comment after retaining UFC title

Dricus Du Plessis says he never went after Israel Adesanya's parents when claiming to be Africa's 1st champion

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00:00let me let me tell you this like I said at the end of the day what I said was

00:05never to challenge Israel or any other African fighter on being the first

00:13African fighter it wasn't that it was the first residing and that is still the

00:18fact I mean it's it's it doesn't know but nothing can change that so I know at

00:24the at the press I went over to him actually after a fight when he got super

00:27emotional you know that was within him that wasn't nothing I never went off to

00:33his family so I just wanted to make sure that you know I have parents too and I

00:38respect anybody's parents so I just went over to him and said after the fight if

00:42it sounded like I was saying anything bad about your parents that was not the

00:46case yeah what I'm saying to you harden up and if you want to cry about that so

00:52be it but I didn't I will never respect disrespect your parents