Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya will endlessly be linked to one another after 4 battles throughout two totally different sports activities, and “Poatan” used his YouTube channel to weigh-in on Adesanya’s failed try to regain the UFC middleweight championship.
Pereira mentioned he was “very assured” in a win for Adesanya and wonders if the Nigerian fighter suffered an damage that prevented him from utilizing what “Poatan” noticed as a fantastic weapon in opposition to somebody like Du Plessis at UFC 305.
“After all, I don’t understand how Adesanya was,” Pereira mentioned. “After we are there, we don’t speak about accidents, we don’t speak about issues. We’re there and we need to combat, need to win. No excuses. Perhaps Adesanya had an damage, I don’t know. You possibly can see he kicked little or no. Issues I say, that inside kick of Adesanya is superb. Not everybody can try this, however he can do it very nicely.
“I knew it was a very good weapon, and he didn’t proceed doing that inside kick. Even Dricus mentioned it bothered him, and likewise bothered me. I’ve mentioned it earlier than for the individuals who requested me. He didn’t proceed to do it. When he’s solely throwing arms I believe it’s simpler for the opponent to guard themselves, or to get out. It was extra boxing there. So it was simpler for him.”
Adesanya reacted to Pereira’s feedback on social media.
It’s bizarre how this man is aware of me…it’s like we’ve spent hours finding out eachother’s strikes and fought a number of occasions or sumn’. I imply that. https://t.co/Up7U8DyT2Q
— Israel Adesanya (@stylebender) August 25, 2024
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I simply mentioned “he is aware of my type.”
Go contact some grass please…— Israel Adesanya (@stylebender) August 26, 2024
“Life goes on, I’ll be right here cheering for him like I’ve at all times been saying,” Pereira continued. “That is trustworthy. I respect him quite a bit, I like his preventing type. His story is marvelous. I mirror him quite a bit, he’s a man that is aware of what he’s doing, however this final combat simply wasn’t for him. I hope he recovers, strengthens his thoughts, and comes again stronger.”
Pereira additionally weighed in on probably returning to middleweight to face Du Plessis. The Brazilian, who received the 185-pound title earlier than transferring as much as gentle heavyweight after shedding to Adesanya, posted about it after the UFC 305 foremost occasion, and Du Plessis mentioned on the post-fight press convention that he ought to keep at 205 kilos to keep away from the load reduce, and provided to face him there sooner or later.
“In preventing, something can occur, you lose or win, I believe it’s a very good combat for me,” Pereira mentioned. “Me and Dricus. I see the preventing type, I’d do a totally totally different combat than Israel did. After all it’s what I think about, however that may all change. I’m certain Israel imagined one thing else, and it was totally different. However I’d practice, deal with a combat like this to do my finest and go away with a win.
“After I did that, Dricus talked about my weight. Initially, once I gave the ‘excuse’ that the load messed me up, nobody agreed. Nobody mentioned something. If I used that as an excuse, nobody wished to say, ‘yeah that’s proper, weight was an issue for Alex’. No, everybody was quiet. However after I talked about happening yet another time, the very first thing Dricus mentioned was that it was an issue once I fought Adesanya, once I received knocked out. I did this my entire life. For many who don’t know, I dropped down eight occasions, to 81kg, and at all times preventing at 85kg. I’ve harm my physique, getting older doing the identical factor, slicing quite a bit [of weight], and seeing it wasn’t good for me. That final one was a warning to me, that I needed to go up and that’s what I did.
“However in the event you guys bear in mind, once I went up in weight, I mentioned I might do that once more, go all the way down to middleweight, however I wanted a while to recuperate. I believe I used to be in a position to recuperate, I’ve 4 fights on this new weight class, the place I took a while to relaxation. I believe if I’m going down yet another time I’ll do nicely. No excuses. I need to win. I might lose, okay, good I’ve that in thoughts, as a result of I’ll go tougher. … Looks like he’s a bit scared. If it’s somebody who actually needs to combat me he would have mentioned, ‘come, I’m ready for you’. However no, he tried to make me scared so I wouldn’t try this, however he’s the one which’s scared.”
