Israel Adesanya thinks Mexico will dominate the MMA scene within the years to come back.
On September 14, Mexican Independence Day will take over Sphere in Las Vegas for a UFC occasion in contrast to every other within the historical past of fight sports activities. 10 whole fights are scheduled for UFC 306, formally generally known as Riyadh Season Noche UFC.
In the principle occasion of the night, ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley will defend his bantamweight belt in opposition to the division’s top-ranked contender, Merab Dvalishvili. Earlier than that, Guadalajara native and reigning flyweight ladies’s champion Alexa Grasso will look to shut her trilogy with Valentina Shevchenko on a excessive observe as she meets ‘Bullet’ for a 3rd consecutive time.
The occasion may even function a slew of Mexican expertise who hope to sooner or later deliver UFC gold to their residence nation.
Throughout his preview of the second annual Noche UFC occasion, former two-time middleweight titleholder Israel Adesanya praised the expertise already popping out of Mexico and believes it’s only a matter of time earlier than the nation’s athletes take over combined martial arts.
“That from boxing, a number of children who would have possibly gone into boxing would begin doing MMA and never simply doing kickboxing or Jiu-Jitsu, like MMA as an entire after which it’s going to be, in a couple of generations you’ll see like a wave of Mexican fighters who’ve that Mexican spirit,” Adesanya stated on YouTube. “You’ll see them like simply dominating the UFC. May very well be, who is aware of what number of generations however form of is already occurring slowly.”
Israel Adesanya assured UFC 306 will ship some ‘Loopy fights’
Closing his ideas, ‘The Final Stylebender’ believes this weekend’s history-making card in Las Vegas will see the preventing spirit synonymous with Mexican fighters on full show.
“I look ahead to it. I like seeing Mexicans, like I feel even with this card, it’s going to deliver that spirit. I feel you’re going to see some loopy fights, some actually loopy fights simply cuz the essence of Mexican preventing” (h/t MMA Information).
The complete UFC 306 card is as follows:
Major Card (ESPN+ PPV)
- Sean O’Malley(c) vs. Merab Dvalishvili – Bantamweight Championship
- Alexa Grasso(c) vs. Valentina Shevchenko – Flyweight Championship
- Brian Ortega vs. Diego Lopes
- Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zellhuber
- Ode Osbourne vs. Ronaldo Rodriguez
Prelims (ESPN Information/ESPN+)
- Irene Aldana vs. Norma Dumont
- Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Manuel Torres
- Yazmin Jauregui vs. Ketlen Souza
- Joshua Van vs. Edgar Chairez
- Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Aoriqileng
