There is no UFC hunter who does best like Israel Adesanya.
The double UFC champion middleweight may not be at the top of the hope as if he was a few years ago, but it is not to deny what Israel Adesanya could achieve in the most important promotion.
Before he went on a three-field, Skid went to Sean Strickland, the current champion Drus Du Plessis and Nassourdine Imavov, Adesanya achieved style points in his last victory against his old kickboxing rival Alex Pereira, who was 3 zero on him from the ring to the Octagon.
Pereira became the first man of Ko Adesanya in their kickboxing brake match in 2017, and later replicated the performance in the UFC with a standing TKO in 2022 (UFC 281).
The series between Pereira and Adesanya finished shortly thereafter at UFC 287, where Adesanya firmen arrows on 'Patan's' lifeless body after he had beaten him cold in the second round.
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David Goggins says 'Nobody' celebrates like Israel Adesanya
Adesanya would talk about his last victory with Navy Seal David Goggins, a man who is known for his mental power and apparently unbreakable will.
What stood out until goggins in the triumph over Pereira was not only the knockout, but what came right afterwards.
“Nobody, nobody I have ever seen – the way you celebrate, you are celebrating at that time,” Goggins told Adesanya on the Freestylender YouTube channel.
“You don't like:” Oh, I won, “and then you come back and do it.
'[No]You have already visualized what the f *** you would do, because when you hit it, it happened so quickly with you for those arrows …
“Die S *** was sick,” said Goggins about Adesanya's post-fighter celebration on UFC 287.
Adesanya visualizing, says that he previously rehearsed the iconic bow and arrow celebration in the shower.
David Goggins on Israel Adesanya conquers MCL -Teaching against Alex Pereira
Adesanya may have made it easy with his photo-perfect knockout from Pereira, but the way to get there was far from it for the former champion.
After he had suffered his first loss in the middleweight against Pereira in November 2022, Adesanya Dana White asked an immediate rematch at four months later, knowing that he could overcome his 'demon' in his heart.
“You kept coming after the demon,” said Goggins.
“How you are quickly that you returned after you have lost, that was goal -oriented.”
The title fight on UFC 287 was not one way to obtain Adesanya, with Pereira eating his leg with stairs just as he did months earlier in Madison Square Garden.
'After the second [leg kick]I was like “F ***, again?” “Adesanya told Goggins.
Adesanya suffered a degree 1 MCL -Weeks from the fight and refused to withdraw because of the injury.
“I've been there,” said Goggins, who broke midfoot bones in his feet and has sustained severe tibia, in addition to other gnarling injuries in ultramarathons.
“If you know,” This is F *****. I'm F *****. I'm probably going to lose … “That's the mentality.”
Yet Israel Adesanya was able to stand the storm, Reliant Alex Pereiras attacks for a reverb knockout, bouncing from the cage to send Pereira to the canvas with punches – what his legacy cemented as one of the largest middleweights of all the time and David Goggins' favorite fiber.