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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That was my biggest achievement in that. But I can partner up with someone on studio and just bring my ideas to life if they like it. I'll learn how to write a script maybe so I can present it properly. Also, fuck, all this shit with AI, I might just be able to do it with AI in two years and be like, right. Boom. And if it hits, it hits. If it sucks, cool. Do it again at the drawing board.
But yeah, a lot of things, a lot of things. I already have, again, shout out to my pops. My pops is a real OG because he helped me just triple and quadruple my money. Yeah. Because if I didn't have him, I definitely would end up.
As one of those sad stories, I feel just because of who I am as a person, I feel like I would have ended up as one of those sad stories because of the trust I have in people. So I'm glad I have my dad around just to like... Just make sure things are cool.
There's always vampires. It's just human nature. It's human nature. I'm sure you have it as well on the way up. And even now, I'm sure you have it as well. But they always, they come out the woodwork. And it's like, let me see. But then my dad's able to tell, this is legit. This is shit. Let me have a look at this first. He goes through every contract.
I can read, but sometimes, because I'm dyslexic, I read really slow or I just lose focus and shit like that.
Yeah, but I just get, like, unless it's something maybe fiction that entices me and I can really go deep. But I like reading comics and shit like that. But a contract is just detail. But there's one person on this planet I trust that wants the best for me is my father.
Amen. Because even I've said this, guys like Habib, rest in peace to his pops, he had him in his corner. Michael Jordan, he had his dad in his corner on the court. My dad is in my corner, but that's on the stuff that really matters outside the cage in life. When I talk about imposter syndrome, I'm like, how the fuck do I have this many houses? I'm doing well. Cool. I know I'm adulting.
but that's because of my pops and i learned the game through him but the details of the game i still don't know yet so after this i'll have more I guess input in the sense that, okay, this and that and this is what this means and that, you know, with the property values and whatnot, I try not to get too much into it because right now all I can focus on is this, fighting, the main thing.
If I don't have this, then, yeah, I can definitely tap into all that kind of stuff. But now I'd rather just focus on this and let my dad handle it. So, again, I'm grateful, so grateful that he's around and he's the one that's helped me get to this point because a lot of people don't even have their dad in their lives, you know, and I'm glad I do.
I am. Look, this is life. You know how it is. Ups and downs, smiles and frowns. But right now where I'm at, I'm in a good place. Way better place. Because again, the thing I didn't like... I appreciate it after my last fight. People come up to me like, hey, man, that was a great fat last fight. Oh, you did well. Thank you.
But when people come, because I was at the buffet in Perth, and some guy came up to me just like, hard luck, man. I was like, what? He wanted to feel sorry for me. I was like, nah, get your fucking shit off me. I'm like, I'm good. I'm like, bro, if you knew how much I made from this fight, you wouldn't even feel sorry for me. But some people don't know how to react, so they come like...
I know, but I like the... Again, I don't fault them for it because they don't know what to say, but the ones that come up and be like, bro, that was a mean fight, man. You almost had him, but that was a fucking good fight. I'm like, thank you. I felt good in that one. It's a different look on the same thing. Some look at it with like, yay, and some look at it with that.
But I'm in a better place because, again... This isn't everything. Fighting's not everything in my life. I've lost many times out of fighting, you know, and I've come back. I've lost in fighting many times, and I've come back. So for me right now, where I'm at in life, I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying the ride. And, yeah, I look forward to the future. I look forward.
Nah, that's not for me. I've been there before and it's not for me. Everyone is different. And I understand that when it's like, because even when I was on top of the world, you know, like number one and this and that, it never defined me. I never let it define me. I always knew. I was Israel Adesanya before and after the belt. I'm still me.
No matter what, they're still going to be trying to fight me because they want to have Israel Adesanya on their record. They want to fight me. They don't want to fight the champ. People will probably even pick a fight over me than DDP, or maybe not because it's probably an easier fight, they think. But still, I'm me, and that's never, ever going to change.
That's never, ever going to change as long as I stay true to me. Yeah. Look, if this game was going to change me, if money was going to change me, it would have done that ages ago. A lot of zeros ago. But I've always been this guy with or without money. You can ask anyone who really knows me. They'll tell you, oh, yeah, that's the same dude I was dancing with back in the day.
Still the same goofball. Keeps the same energy. But now that I'm here, I just have a lot more freedom to do things that I want to do than I'm grateful for. But, yeah. I even look forward to seeing who I become next year, like who I evolve into next year. Because, again, I am me, but learning. There's things I'm going to learn about myself. I'm sure you have this as well. Jamie has this.
We all have this. We're just figuring out who we are. What are you now, 57? No way.
Yeah, so you're still learning.
Yeah, facts.
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