Former middleweight king Israel Adesanya talks to members of the UFC 287 Weigh-In Show ahead of his main event rematch with …
uh Speaking of awesome Israel adesanya kindly joining us now after weighing in Izzy thank you so much for joining the show always a uh a pleasure to have you on I guess let’s start with this it’s it’s the first time in a very long time that you are coming in as the Challenger you’ve looked very motivated and and focused all week long has anything been different for you in the preparation and this week no nothing’s been different I’ve just worked harder and smarter than I always do you’ve uh you’ve been labeled as The Slight favorite in this one but you’re taking very much the underdog approach as the Challenger do you feel like that gives you a little bit of a of a mental Edge going in yeah definitely I’ve got chips and dips on my shoulder and I Relish in the underdog roll for sure that you wanted to actually want to get right back in there probably the next day or two days after um you just have to kind of bask in the emotions and the Ambiance of everything but then after two days I got my clarity and I knew I wanted to go again I mean I think after the yawn fight we saw how graceful you were then same thing uh after your last fight with Alex what what is it about you that allows you to handle these setbacks with so much grace and like there’s just like there’s no diminishment and confidence I guess that we can see losing sucks I hate losing but I’ve had bigger losses in my life you know outside of the cage outside the Octagon so yeah I know how to deal with these things I’ve had bigger wins in my life as well outside the Octagon so I know how to deal with those as well Izzy listen man generally you’re always an Entertainer champ you are but you got the collar on your neck and it’s like you’re more of a dog this week and it seems like you’re carrying that edge from the short answers to everything like what is going into that because I see it right I see a different Israel Edison in that regarding the approach short answers short fight was that what did he say short answers a short fight oh it’s gonna be a short fight you feel like you’re getting this dude out of there yes how annoying has it been to have to answer these questions leading up to this fight is that the is that the worst thing about this whole lead up is that you have to explain to me explain to people why you lost and what you’re going to do different is that why you just like kind of just short with everything you just want to be in that cage already no not really I just Chris you know this you’ve been here before so it’s like the talking is we’re talking can’t fight I can fight so I’m ready to roll I’ve been ready to roll for the last four days but again you’ve been here before so you just have to calm the body calm the mind yeah and when it’s time to roll tomorrow I’ll let I’ll let everything be Unleashed you know one thing that surprised a lot of people in that last fight was how much better your wrestling was his than than his is that a big part of the strategy going to this fight is to test his wrestling again stay tuned we’ll find out yesterday he’s not giving that away now he gonna shoot a double leg Israel by the way what the is up is it what’s up I can’t even look at the monitor properly well I like it I like it it’s colorful you know me I like it we can’t all be Israel you know you wait you even you wake up the biggest cities right New York Miami so we got to kind of just try to show up when we go interview the champ Tubbs and Hobbs you know like the old Miami Vice Cocaine Cowboys relax I was waiting for you to break out of your shell what was the most disturbing to see was it DC with hair or was it Weidman with that blonde wig on I don’t really mind it all looks good like you know me I’m a colorful guy and this looks you know you guys look handsome you look dapper so congrats man I appreciate that you look great too good luck good luck you guys Izzy thanks for joining us okay good luck buddy