After regaining his crown as middleweight champion at the UFC last April, Israel Adesanya will put his title back on the line. The Nigerian will face American Sean Strickland on September 10 at UFC 293. A fight that Izzy doesn’t take lightly. He promises to give the maximum in order to make it easy.
“I don’t take this lightly. You will see me, you will see that I have worked. I don’t underestimate this guy, but at the same time, I don’t overestimate him. I want it to look easy. I’m going to make it look easy because of the work we’re doing right now and the way I’m working right now. I know it, that’s all, ”says The Last Stylbender.
The UFC returns to Australia for the second time in 2023 with UFC 293 on September 9, the promotion’s first show in Sydney since November 2017. poster for the event is set, but the middleweight title will be on the line as planned. The challenger simply won’t be the originally planned Dricus Du Plessis, who is nursing a foot injury Sean Strickland takes his place in an attempt to dethrone Adesanya.
Israel Adesanya wants to make easy money
“I never underestimate anyone,” Adesanya said on his YouTube channel. “I was just thinking about [Michael] Bisping versus [Luke] Rockhold [2], when Bisping finally beat him, accepting the fight on a week and a half notice or something like that, two weeks. He goes there and shocks the world. It is a possible reality. My job is to make sure that is not the case in this reality. It’s another parallel universe, another timeline. Then yes. I am very aware of the dangers he poses and the things he knows how to do. »
“I don’t take this lightly. You will see me, you will see that I have worked. I don’t underestimate this guy, but at the same time, I don’t overestimate him. I want it to look easy. I’m going to make it look easy because of the work we’re doing right now and the way I’m working right now. I know, that’s all.”
It’s no secret that Strickland isn’t afraid of his words or his deeds, whether in the octagon or out. Sometimes it’s to his detriment, as evidenced by his recent defeats to Alex Pereira and Jared Cannonier, more marked for the former. Ultimately, Israel Adesanya sees the cowardly nature of his next opponent as an advantage. Following this fight, Adesanya has already named Chimaev as his next opponent.
