{"id":394934,"date":"2022-06-30T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394934"},"modified":"2022-06-30T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T10:30:37","slug":"trying-to-take-away-my-greatness-israel-adesanya-issues-3-million-challenge-to-anyone-who-can-prove-he-took-peds-in-2020s-titygate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/trying-to-take-away-my-greatness-israel-adesanya-issues-3-million-challenge-to-anyone-who-can-prove-he-took-peds-in-2020s-titygate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Trying to Take Away My Greatness&#8217;- Israel Adesanya Issues $3 Million Challenge to Anyone Who Can Prove He Took PED&#8217;s in 2020&#8217;s &#8216;Ti*tygate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya had some fiery words for the media during his media day appearance at UFC 276. On the day \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019 received his recognition from USADA for being a clean athlete, he fired shots at everyone who had formerly accused him of taking steroids following UFC 253.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya was seen with a swollen pectoral muscle, and this led to many internet sleuths trying to defame his win over Paulo Costa, claiming he had taken steroids. The now infamous \u2018Tittygate\u2019 somewhat sullied his efforts against Costa and \u2018Izzy\u2019 was more than pleased to rub it in everyone\u2019s face now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations! But what&#39;s up with your tit bro? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tittygate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tittygate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/36QLKkRf9T\">pic.twitter.com\/36QLKkRf9T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brandon Lamrouex (@BrandonLamrouex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonLamrouex\/status\/1310215770400591875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/his-hands-are-legit-hes-a-gamer-demetrious-johnson-has-high-praise-for-henry-cejudos-odds-in-a-potential-fight-against-aljamain-sterling-and-alexander-volkanovski\/\">\u2018His Hands are Legit\u2026 He\u2019s a Gamer\u2019- Demetrious Johnson Has High Praise for Henry Cejudo\u2019s Odds in a Potential Fight Against Aljamain Sterling and Alexander Volkanovski<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Israel Adesanya has an offer you can\u2019t refuse<\/h2>\n<p>Adesanya put everyone on notice at UFC 276\u2019s presser when he offered $3 million to anyone who can provide \u2018concrete evidence\u2019 that he had taken steroids. He went on record saying that he\u2019s never even touched steroids, let alone ingested any of them for a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen you\u2019re great, they talk about \u2018Tittygate,\u2019\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cAt the same time, I\u2019m like, \u2018How the f***?\u2019 They just need to find excuses to take away my greatness. I understand this is what people are supposed to do, so I let them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4okrTdz74L0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLook, I will give $3 million to anyone who can ever have concrete evidence that I even know what the f*** I\u2019m doing with steroids or how to take steroids. I promise you. $3 million if you can find anyone who has concrete evidence that I\u2019ve ever even purchased, touched, or done any kind of performance-enhancing drugs or whatever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adesanya was clearly annoyed that some fans and media members had taken away from his victory over Paulo Costa at UFC 253 due to the steroid accusations. Moreover, he saw these statements as defamatory and doubled down on his $3 million offer to anyone who can prove he took PED\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuWE7HJV9xI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo yeah, $3 million for anyone who can ever find any concrete evidence that I\u2019ve been using performance-enhancing drugs. Pull up. This is easy. It\u2019s easy to talk and type online, but really it got to me a little after the Costa fight. I was like, \u2018These f***ing c***s are just trying to take away my greatness, because I had a f***ing spectacular performance.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018How the f*** are you trying to take that away with accusations based on nothing.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-offers-3-million-for-anyone-who-can-ever-find-any-concrete-evidence-that-hes-taken-peds-when-youre-great-they-talk-about-tittygate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya had some fiery words for the media during his media day appearance at UFC 276. On the day \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019 received his recognition from USADA for being a clean athlete, he fired shots at everyone who had formerly accused him of taking steroids following UFC 253. Adesanya was seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394934","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\/394934","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=394934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}