How can you change that? Fake an injury? But I think you should bet on him for this fight. “I feel like we should change that or something. “Why am I the favorite on this? I never check them, but I just happened to see something on Instagram,” he said. The oddsmakers seems to care little about past history and made Adesanya the betting favorite, per FanDuel Sportsbook. “Hey man, he’s got bragging rights, so he can talk all the (smack) he wants,” Adesanya said. Pereira will try and make it 3-0 inside another packed house at MSG. Pereira won his kickboxing fights inside darkened arenas and in front of a smattering of fans. Pereira bent down and appeared to trash talk Adesanya after the kickboxing KO and gestured at his fallen foe as he celebrated in the ring. I’m going to fight (him) like it was first time I was fighting in my life.”Īlex Pereira makes 184.6lbs for our middleweight title fight #UFC281 | Tomorrow | Live on ESPN+ PPV: /J3QaakqZ45- UFC November 11, 2022 “We all know what happened in the last two fights,” Pereira said through an interpreter. Pereira did exactly that as he followed him to UFC following a wildly successful kickboxing career that included an April 2016 unanimous decision win over Adesanya and he used a left hook in the third round of a KO victory in March 2017 in Brazil. Put them in front of me and I take them out. “I never chased the belt, I never chased anything,” he said. Yes, a win is a win, and Adesanya has never been knocked down over his UFC career.Īdesanya, though, has yet to consistently turn in the highlight-reel efforts that could help him make the mainstream leap in much the way Conor McGregor did in his prime, or, at the very least connect with a greater percentage of MMA fans like Anderson Silva or Jon Jones did at the top of their games.Īdesanya insists he’s not searching for that kind of outside fame.
The elbows and head kicks that littered his method of victories early in his career have been replaced by a string of unanimous decisions.
The Adesanya who won over the New York crowd with a knee to the face and then a big left to finish off Brunson - and celebrated by dancing in the middle of the octagon - has largely turned into a stylistically unpleasant performer. His dominant destruction of the veteran was considered Adesanya’s breakout performance.Īnd in many ways it was - he won the interim middleweight belt two fights later, unified the division with an October 2019 win over Robert Whittaker and hasn’t lost a 185-pound fight yet over that span, including two this year. UFC has largely eschewed the Northeast since the pandemic but returns to MSG for the sixth time since New York in 2016 became the 50th state to legalize MMA.Īdesanya, the Nigeria-born, New Zealand-raised fighter, earned performance of the night honors when he scored a TKO win over Derek Brunson four years ago at the Garden.
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Pereira (6-1) get his first crack at UFC gold when he fights Adesanya (23-1) on Saturday night in UFC’s return to Madison Square Garden. The lopsided history between the two fighters is one reason UFC fast-tracked Pereira to a title match after only three fights for the organization since his November 2021 debut.Īdesanya, the once-electric, now-methodical fighter, knew this day would come once Pereira signed - and said it’s his time to write the final chapter in their multisport trilogy. Jake Paul stays unbeaten, tops Silva in unanimous decision
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