Israel Adesanya beat Yoel Romero at UFC 248 to retain his UFC middleweight title.
However, it seems that Stylebender was the only happy man in the arena at the end of the fight.
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Adesnaya and Romero got closer in the weighing as they did in the fight!
The Nigerian-born star goes to 18-0 and has spent much of the fight staying away from Romero.
The challenger has a reputation for being one of the toughest men of the UFC period, but he never really had a chance to show why Adesanya avoided him for much of the contest.
He chose his spots and did the work, but it was not an exciting fight for the fans, whatever their imagination.
“I did what I had to do and I chose it apart,” said Adesanya after the fight. “The legs don’t lie. I f * cked his leg.”
Romero was not happy either. It was a unanimous decision loss where Adesanya had more hits in three of the five rounds, but there was only one fighter trying to be the aggressor.
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Israel Adesanya didn’t care that the crowd didn’t like the outcome
“You can’t fight a ghost,” Romero said through an interpreter at his post-fight press conference. “I’m going to start training for the track or cross-country because of course [Adesanya] is a cross country and an athletics star, so I have to catch up on his sport. “
Adesanya asked UFC president Dana White to fight because he had to wait for Paulo Costa to come back from bicep surgery.
He didn’t have to fight and White didn’t have to fight it, but he did it anyway because he got excited.
After seeing how it went, White apparently regrets putting Romero in the title fight when the Cuban is now on a three-game losing streak.
“The matchmakers didn’t like this fight and didn’t want to do this fight,” said White. “They didn’t want to make Romero against Adesanya. But the goofy fan in me said, “Are you stinging me? Let’s go. It will be a fun fight to do, the fact that he wants to fight a guy that no one wants to fight. “
“Now the decline is 20/20. We probably shouldn’t have fought this fight. We probably should have waited for Costa. “
It’s hard to see how someone really won from this fight right now.
