{"id":393327,"date":"2022-06-21T23:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393327"},"modified":"2022-06-21T23:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:11:20","slug":"this-is-not-kickboxing-israel-adesanya-looking-to-run-through-rival-alex-pereira-in-potential-ufc-title-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/this-is-not-kickboxing-israel-adesanya-looking-to-run-through-rival-alex-pereira-in-potential-ufc-title-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This Is Not Kickboxing!&#8217;- Israel Adesanya Looking to Run Through Rival Alex Pereira in Potential UFC Title Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a UFC news press conference held on Tuesday, Israel Adesanya talked about an opponent who is swiftly circling around the UFC\u2019s title picture. The only man to knock out Israel Adesanya in combat sports is likely one fight away from facing him again, but this time in the UFC\u2019s octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Pereira is about to face Sean Strickland at UFC 276 and with a win over a veteran like Strickland, \u2018Poatan\u2019 is likely the next to face Israel Adesanya. \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019 was KO\u2019ed emphatically by Pereira during their kickboxing contest and he\u2019s now circling Adesanya in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/he-showed-that-he-can-be-beat-alexander-volkanovski-pumped-up-to-face-lightweight-champion-charles-oliveira\/\">\u2018He Showed that He Can Be Beat\u2019- Alexander Volkanovski Pumped Up to Face Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Israel Adesanya believes Alex Pereira\u2019s time is now<\/h2>\n<p>Pereira is just 2-0 in the UFC and is already on the radar to fight for the undisputed title. While some believe Alex Pereira\u2019s rise to the UFC is far too quick, Israel Adesanya is comfortable with the way Pereira is moving up the ranks. He mentioned the newly minted champion in Jiri Prochazka as an example of a fighter who has raced his way to the top and has been more than competent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-393166 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/sty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/sty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/sty-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/sty-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/sty-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/sty-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI look forward to either one of those fights.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t like this narrative of like, \u2018Oh it\u2019s too quick for Pereira.\u2019 But look, Jiri (Prochazka) just fought for the belt and won the belt in his third fight in the UFC. I think Anderson (Silva) did it in his second fight. So, that\u2019s fine. He\u2019s new to MMA. I\u2019ve been in this game for a long time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxokyCnRe78\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis TikTok generation has 15-second memory, so they forget,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cAll they see is the knockout, but they didn\u2019t watch the first fight or even watch the second fight before the finish. This is not kickboxing, this is mixed martial arts, and these ain\u2019t big pillow gloves. These are four-ounce deadly weapons, and I can\u2019t wait to drive that through his face after I go through Jared Cannonier.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/06\/israel-adesanya-welcomes-alex-pereira-fight-after-ufc-276-dismisses-narrative-that-its-too-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Israel Adesanya is clearly confident that his previous encounter against Pereira that ended with him being knockout out won\u2019t be a factor in their potential UFC fight. Adesanya believes the four-ounce MMA gloves are going to be the difference as compared to their previous encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a UFC news press conference held on Tuesday, Israel Adesanya talked about an opponent who is swiftly circling around the UFC\u2019s title picture. The only man to knock out Israel Adesanya in combat sports is likely one fight away from facing him again, but this time in the UFC\u2019s octagon. Alex Pereira is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}