141 Days After Hollywood-Style UFC Ending, Israel Adesanya Claims Dana White’s $11,900,000 Success Was Achieved With No Effort From His End- “Fight Is Already Sold You Know”

The rivalry between the fighters is indeed paramount to selling UFC fights. They raise fan passion, develop plots, and generate interest. In fact, the rivalry between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov surely set benchmarks in the past. However, a similar rivalry in the middleweight division existed between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira as well.

Initiating from a different combat sport to the realm of MMA, the fans had a lot to anticipate from this beef. In fact, in 2023, the fans may have seen Adesanya conclude the story at UFC 287. Well, ‘The Stylebender’ yet again expressed his thoughts on his fight against Pereira and also revealed something in light of UFC head honcho Dana White’s success in a YouTube interview.

Israel Adesanya had nothing to do with Dana White’s success

Adesanya recently had a conversation with Combat TV. After addressing numerous doubts concerning his ongoing beef with Sean Strickland, an interesting question came in front of him. Intriguingly, Adesanya was asked why the fans didn’t see him fueling the buzz of the fight, which was set against ‘Poatan’ back in April. Addressing the question, Adesanya took a little time and responded right away since he revealed that he didn’t contribute to Dana White’s close to $12 million success from the event.

“Yupp, that was it that whole camp. Everyone were asking me questions leading up to it I was just giving like real short answers and I was just like this fight is already sold you know, there is no need for me to try and say anything.” said Adesanya.

He further said, “Even if say I’m gonna beat this guy you guys aren’t going to believe me because the fans even like if I if I didn’t really know me I wouldn’t have believed in me but the people who know me believed me because they know the mentality I have and the spirit I have and heart that I have.”

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Additionally, he had something else to reveal in terms of his aim. “If I didn’t know me I wouldn’t believe in me. So I was just like there is no point trying to convince anyone I just know what I am gonna do.” Indeed, the rivalry against ‘Poatan’ was no less than a movie for Adesanya. And, he was able to showcase his heroics as he stood tall in the climax and regained his supremacy.

The historic triumph of Israel Adesanya

After tasting defeat three times at the hands of Pereira, Adesanya had nothing to lose at that point. With a firm belief, he even stated that he would keep fighting the Brazilian till he defeated him. From kickboxing to the Octagon, Adesanya surely must have remembered the dominance of Pereira, but this time fate had other plans.

After getting the crucial opportunity not only to regain the middleweight strap but also to seek revenge for his last three defeats, the current middleweight champion didn’t let that go. He showcased sheer dominance as he was convincingly able to gain the victory by knocking out Pereira, becoming the enforcer of the middleweight division once again. Regarding such an intriguing story, what are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.

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