{"id":396967,"date":"2022-07-11T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=396967"},"modified":"2022-07-11T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:40:58","slug":"this-dumbass-in-the-back-of-the-class-just-disrupting-israel-adesanya-lays-into-rival-sean-strickland-for-not-focusing-on-alex-pereira-at-ufc-276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/this-dumbass-in-the-back-of-the-class-just-disrupting-israel-adesanya-lays-into-rival-sean-strickland-for-not-focusing-on-alex-pereira-at-ufc-276\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This Dumbass in the Back of the Class Just Disrupting&#8217;- Israel Adesanya Lays Into Rival Sean Strickland for &#8216;Not Focusing&#8217; on Alex Pereira at UFC 276"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Sean Strickland may have stolen the show at the press conference for UFC 276, jabbing out insults at champion Israel Adesanya and likely getting under the champ\u2019s skin. However, \u2018Izzy\u2019 had the last laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking out on his YouTube channel, Israel Adesanya blasted Strickland for not focusing on his opponent in front of him and instead jockeying for a fight against \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019. Strickland was brutally knocked out in the fight by Alex Pereira and lost his number 4 ranking in the middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIhvWJ_Fzpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe should\u2019ve listened to me,\u201d Adesanya said in an interview on his YouTube channel. \u201cHe should\u2019ve listened to me when I told him, \u2018Just focus on the guy you have in front of you, not me.\u2019 He was trying to be like that idiot in the back of the class.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI hated having to address that idiot. Like, I\u2019m trying to f*cking work and the guy I\u2019m focused on is next to me or down the line and this idiot, this dumbass in the back of the class just disrupting.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/futurefightsnew\/status\/1543493105160257537?s=20&#038;t=ypezRfFlco2VVAWYatLg4Q<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya was clear in his belief that had Strickland stayed the course and focused on dismantling Alex \u2018Poatan\u2019 Pereira, he would be the one fighting for gold next. Instead, Pereira is now slamming on the door of title contention with just three fights in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was like, \u2018Yo, it\u2019s not me you need to worry about. Focus on this guy. He thought he had the opportunity, and I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, bet.\u2019 If he actually did what he had to do, me and him would be fighting next.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/07\/ufc-news-israel-adesanya-dissects-sean-strickland-knockout-alex-pereira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/my-performance-was-bad-in-the-first-fight-jiri-prochazka-makes-a-massive-declaration-to-face-glover-teixeira-in-a-rematch\/\">\u2018My Performance Was Bad in the First Fight\u2019- Jiri Prochazka Makes a Massive Declaration to Face Glover Teixeira in a Rematch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Pereira\u2019s shared history with Israel Adesanya is a major reason for his quick ascent up the ranks of the UFC. However, it\u2019s hard to deny that he hasn\u2019t looked spectacular in his UFC fights thus far and his power is monstrous for the middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p>If Pereira is able to go 3-0 against Israel Adesanya and pick up a UFC belt in a short time span, he\u2019ll go down as one of the fastest rising stars in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>More UFC news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-helping-him-joe-rogan-explains-why-he-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-have-donald-trump-on-his-podcast-multiple-times\/\">\u201cOne Thing About Izzy That Is Absolutely Unique\u2026.\u201d- John McCarthy Reveals a Skill That Separates Israel Adesanya From the Rest of the Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-schedule-for-july-2022\/\">UFC Schedule for July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/one-thing-about-izzy-that-is-absolutely-unique-john-mccarthy-reveals-a-skill-that-separates-israel-adesanya-from-the-rest-of-the-division\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Not Interested in Helping Him\u201d- Joe Rogan Explains Why He Turned Down the Opportunity to Have Donald Trump on His Podcast Multiple Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our UFC page for more key UFC updates and news<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Sean Strickland may have stolen the show at the press conference for UFC 276, jabbing out insults at champion Israel Adesanya and likely getting under the champ\u2019s skin. However, \u2018Izzy\u2019 had the last laugh. Speaking out on his YouTube channel, Israel Adesanya blasted Strickland for not focusing on his opponent in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":396969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396967","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\/396967","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=396967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}