Nothing that Sean Strickland will say — and he says a lot, much of it intentionally personally offensive — will come as a shock to Israel Adesanya, the UFC's middleweight champion.
Paulo Costa did much the same thing prior to meeting Adesanya in the main event of UFC 253 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Sept. 27, 2020. Adesanya delivered one of the most brutal beatings of his career, finishing Costa in the second with vicious elbows and punches.
"I think it's silly," Adesanya told Yahoo Sports."Look, this guy just got his passport because of me. I don't think he's ever traveled out of the [United States], and I've traveled all over the world fighting. And this guy wants to clown me for going over and doing a drop in a different land, and he's calling me a slut? ...
So he did Strickland a favor while also giving himself the opportunity to shut up one of his loudest critics. Strickland has mocked Adesanya for painting his nails and said fans come up to him all the time begging him to knock out Adesanya because, Strickland said, they believe he's arrogant."Is that kind of [stuff] the best he can do?" Adesanya said."He can find anything that takes away from my greatness.
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