Israel Adesanya didn’t anticipate to have his title referred to as on Saturday evening.
Following Shara Magomedov’s superb double backfist knockout of Armen Petrosyan that kicked off the UFC 308 essential card, Magomedov—popularly generally known as “Shara Bullet”—declared himself the most effective striker within the middleweight division and focused Adesanya for his subsequent combat.
In a response video posted to his YouTube, Adesanya evoked a pair of memes to react to the callout.
“Preserve my title out your f*cking mouth,” Adesanya stated with fun, mentioning the well-known clip of Will Smith threatening Chris Rock on the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony.
He then added, “What the f*ck did I do? What he say f*ck me, for?” a reference to rapper 50 Cent’s confused response to being verbally attacked by boxer Floyd Mayweather in 2014.
In accordance with Magomedov, he has been pursuing a bout with Adesanya for the reason that two have been rivals on the Chinese language kickboxing circuit. That is likely to be information to Adesanya, who didn’t seem to acknowledge any prior historical past with the undefeated contender.
Adesanya, a two-time UFC champion, is coming off of a submission loss to rival Dricus du Plessis this previous August. He was making an attempt to win the middleweight title a 3rd time, however as a substitute misplaced for the third time in 4 fights.
Watch Adesanya’s UFC 308 response video beneath.
