said<\/a> at UFC Seattle media day. \u201cFor me, I\u2019ve seen how this goes. This is just the cycle. Sometimes us older guys stop them in their tracks. This fight for me, the story I\u2019m telling myself, the story I\u2019m going to write this weekend, is that after a year off, he comes back and just performs better than he ever has.<\/p>\n\u201cOr just like he did, and people are like, \u2018Ah, you\u2019re only as good as your last fight.\u2019 So when I\u2019m done this weekend, I want people to be like, \u2018Oh, wow. F*ck. How did I ever doubt him? How did I ever think he was done? What the f*ck was I thinking?\u2019 That\u2019s the story I want to write this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Israel Adesanya can beat Joe Pyfer on Saturday, it would put him right back in the title picture.<\/p>\n
Israel Adesanya isn\u2019t done just yet<\/p>\n
Not only would Adesanya be back in the title picture, but he has confidence he can reclaim his middleweight belt.<\/p>\n
But, regardless of how UFC Seattle plays out, Adesanya makes it clear he still has more to give.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still have so much left at the table,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cFor me, I\u2019m taking everything one moment at a time. One day at a time, one fight at a time, because the world is crazy right now, so we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. Everything is just about this moment. Also, I\u2019m in a different place in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adesanya enters UFC Seattle on a three-fight losing streak. He last fought in February of 2025 when he was knocked out by Nassourdine Imavov.<\/p>\n
Do you think Israel Adesanya will beat Joe Pyfer at UFC Seattle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya wants to remind everyone just how good he is at UFC Seattle. Adesanya is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-564382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}