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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Excuse me? When you say that, you mean like, do people have to pay other comedy clubs to perform there?
Yeah.
I've seen it. Cam Patterson, some of these guys, they start there and now they just... Killing it. Yeah. Hard work.
And for someone like me, just a fan of comedy in general, it's fun to see the process of them starting up. Because I used to listen to Kill Tony, my old job, just so I didn't go postal. I'd just sit there with my headphones in and the hoodie on just to hide it so they don't know I'm doing it. And then now to see where it's become and then where on the street is it coming up. And I'm like, oh shit.
So it's going to be on there and then it's going to be even bigger. It's fun to see that. And I've seen a lot of comics just grow. And then seeing their sets develop, all that kind of thing. And look, I know how hard it is now, just watching that. Because you think, oh, I've made a joke before. I can do it. Nah.
And seeing people bomb on Kill Tony after just 60 seconds, I just like, yeah, nah, fuck all that. I'd fight in front of millions of people, but to stand in front of a crowd and try and make them laugh, just that, yeah.
It's so rare. I've seen people throughout the walks of life in gyms I've trained at that I'm like,
i think you're better than me but they just never made it they never got the experience or the exposure also when the lights are on they shut down yeah and they don't show up i'm like you're better than what than this but again gym champions yeah yeah that's a real thing man with people that perform so well with no pressure and then when that pressure is on they're like 30 percent of what they are you see them make the mental mistakes you see them rush in and it's it's
weird it takes skill to learn how to perform under the lights but also you have to have that thing like you have to know you're that guy or you have to have that belief in yourself so again i'm glad i've done it and i'm glad i'm doing it but now i'm just like i just want to fight i just want to fight have fun and again it's weird like i just know that fucking gold belt always circles back around i don't chase it never have and i knew it would always be there at some point
But, yeah, it will. And in the moment, bro, if I'm not happy with what I've done in this game, what's going to make me happy? Right, right.
But I still feel great. And again, you know when fighters talk about, I lost the belt, I felt this pressure lifted, whatever. I never felt that when I lost it in MSG. I was just like, I'm going to fight this guy again. And I got it back. But then when I lost it... Not to Strickland, but ever this last one is the only time when I was just like, eh.
I wasn't a champ, I guess, but this last fight was the first time I felt that like... Well, but I still feel like I'm that guy because a lot of people still have that target on my back because I'm Israel Adesanya. But having to fight for the belt, having to fight with that thing, I don't know. This is the first time I've ever felt that where I'm like, meh, I'm good.
So I'm just going to see what happens. Train, get better, and fight again at some point.
Yeah. Yeah. Because I feel like when you have the title, there's spotlight on you. There still is a spotlight on me, but it's not the same thing. And now I get to enjoy a little bit more, almost freedom, in a sense. Well, I've heard fighters talk about it heaps. So, again, for me, I never felt it until recently that I'm like, oh, I get what they mean now when they talk about the pressure.
The pressure's still there, but it's not the same. And I'm like, cool. I get to just fight for me now. I get to have fun.
I want to try some crazy shit. I actually want to fight and just do some... I want to go back to the way I used to fight when we didn't have so much on the line. Because it's not just about me. It's about the people that are around me that I have to... Not have to, but, you know, like, if I do good, everybody eats. You know what I mean?
Mm-hmm.
So now that we still do good, we still eat, but it's like, ah, fuck the belt. We'll just have fun. So I just want to go back to having fun. The way I used to fight when I was a young fucking schizo fritterer who just did shit for fun. Like the fucking Tavares fight in the round one, I'm like, I'm going to try a Minari roll.
And I kind of missed it. But yeah, I'm going to bring that back. I kind of want to do that kind of shit again.
It didn't at first. But the longer you defend the belt, it happened to Anderson as well. It happened to Anderson as well. I saw it because I watched Anderson's rise. And I saw even to the point where people wanted him to lose just because he was so great. And then it's just that natural thing where people build you up because they want to tear you down. And I felt that happen to me as well.
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