Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira faced each other several times in combat sports, but they never let their competition turn into personal hate, according to the latter, Afrosport reports. When they talk trash before a fight and compete in the octagon, it might seem like they really dislike each other. Pereira won against Adesanya twice in kickboxing, even knocking him out in their second fight. Adesanya...
Nigerian mixed martial artist, Israel Adesanya, won a $4,000 bet he placed on Enyimba to defeat Lobi Stars in their rescheduled matchday three encounter in the Nigeria Premier Football League on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion revealed via his official X handle that he had placed a substantial stake on Enyimba to emerge victorious. “Is a goooooooaaaaalll!!” -...
Nigeria's Israel Adesanya was not successful in his quest to reclaim the middleweight title in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), as he fell to South Africa's Dricus Du Plessis by submission in the fourth round of the UFC 305 main card in the early hours of Sunday. For the first time in his mixed martial art (MMA) career, Adesanya, who was looking to become the first...
Former two-time middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will make a return to the octagon this weekend when he battles South African fighter and reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis in the UFC 305 main card. Adesanya returns to action for the first time since losing the UFC middleweight title to Sean Strickland at UFC 293 back in September 2023. The Nigerian overcame Brazilian Alex...
Former UFC middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, faces a potential three-month jail term after pleading guilty to drunk driving in a New Zealand court. According to ESPN, Adesanya was driving back home after a dinner with friends in Auckland on August 19 and underwent a Random Breath Test which revealed he had had 87 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his body which is...
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