Dricus du Plessis has only tasted defeat twice during his career but he never forgot the feeling of those losses and how much it made him never want to go through that again. On Saturday at UFC 319, he faces undefeated Chechen mauler Khamzat Chimaev,

Chimaev's nickname "Borz" translates to "wolf," a fitting moniker for a fighter who lunges and clamps onto foes with rabid precision. Chimaev and his many supporters see him as the UFC's apex predator. But Du Plessis is the king of the middleweight jungle. He's tracked Chimaev for a long time, and at UFC 319, he's going wolf hunting.