Israel Adesanya
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887 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Israel Adesanya’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, he was a badass. I like tassels, though. That's what I mean when I wear my shorts. I always like tassels because when you kick, the way they shimmer, the way they look. And it just makes for cool pics.
But again, now for certain fighters, they're changing it, which is good, but hopefully that trickles down.
Yeah, I've seen it. It happened to me, even with the... What's his name? Brunson. In the Brunson, he grabbed my tights. And I was like, yo, that's two times you've done it now. So it is tempting, but I think tights would be the best way to fight. But again, some guys have cool shorts, and if that's their style, that's their style. Because some people, I guess maybe they're body type.
Maybe they got no ass. They don't want to be... I got something back there, but like, I don't know, a guy like, I won't drop no names, but like, you know, wearing tights, you look like a fucking stick or something, yeah. Yeah, you look a little flat. Yeah.
That's what it is, though.
But even the fact that he doesn't speak English, that's also his superpower, just shama. Right. What do you think about that fight this weekend? I can't wait. I just did the breakdown for it. We're about to drop it on YouTube now. I am picking, in this fight, Alex. Because I just think the momentum behind it.
My item right now is so big. He's just got momentum. Look, I was the most active champion in UFC history. I think next to Alex Volkanovski as well, he was right up there with me, or if not more than me. I think Alex now is on his way to being the most active champ in UFC history because he's already saved this year, I think, two or three cards alone.
He's like stepped in and be like, yeah, I'm Sharma. Just does a jumpsuit.
Momentum.
But again, that's what you have to do. Look, when you get in the UFC, this is what I did as well. He did it the right way. Fight as much as possible. Fight as much as possible so you can be in people's faces so they can see. That guy just fought. That guy just fought. Oh, I just saw him fight last month.
And you fight as much as you can, and you get that momentum behind you, and then you become champion. You're that guy. And then again, you're just that momentum constantly. You're in people's faces. You're getting posted here, here, and that's how you build a stock up. So I've done that, and he's doing it the right way as well. And I think if he keeps going...
I hope he retires never getting defeated by anyone ever again. Just you.
Look, it's the story behind it. No matter what, it's just the history. Because David even mentioned to me, my brother said, you know you're the only one that can actually stand with that guy. No one's lasted more than two rounds or even a round with him. And I thought about it during the breakdown, like, yeah, you're right. And it's because I knew him. I have fought that guy so many times.
And regardless of what happened, I lost three times and I finally won one. It was just the fact that I knew I could beat him. Every time I fought him, I was just like, I was beating him.
I felt so too. But then that's, you know, the Chinese judges. That's the kickboxing fight. They gave it to him. And then the second fight in Brazil under the same company, then he gets me. But again, I was besting him. Had him on skates. He was fucking... And then he... Bro, his spirit. You know what Jerry said about the whole juju thing? Like, that's real. That's real.
So the last time I fought him in Miami, look, he beats me. That's why I hate when people say, oh, is he scared? He's scared. It's like, bro, I ain't scared of shit. The guy beat me in the biggest... arena on the planet, Madison Square Garden, same way as the last time he beat me in Brazil, in his hometown.
I was beating his ass, had him hurt in the end of the first round, all that shit, took him down, and then he gets me in the last round. It's his spirit, his whatever, like, ancestors or his people that are praying for him, because I got prayer warriors as well.
My mom and dad be fasting, and they have people, like, in the spirit praying for me, but, like, the way he carries himself, something about him just... He knows how to recover well. So I just knew I could get him. I could get him. And then after that, he knocks me out in the biggest arena in the world. And I'm just like, let's do that shit again, Dana. Because I just knew.
And, like, I always say this, the shower is the most interesting place on the planet, I feel, because you have the element of water running over your body, stripped naked in your bare essentials. You kind of have this, if it's a white shower, like a void, white space. I can create a lot in there. I can make a lot of things happen.
And, yeah, one time after one of my showers, I just wrote this thing on my mirror because I just had this premonition, like, this is where I get it done. Like, there's no way. You could beat me one time. You could beat me two times. You might beat me three times. But I was like, nah, this guy's not going to beat me this time. And I just knew I had to get this done.
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