{"id":577120,"date":"2026-03-31T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577120\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:43:15","slug":"demetrious-johnson-becomes-the-latest-to-push-israel-adesanya-to-retire-after-ufc-seattle-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577120\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson becomes the latest to push Israel Adesanya to retire after UFC Seattle loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Fame inductee Demetrious Johnson became the latest big name to call for Israel Adesanya\u2019s retirement after UFC Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya\u2019s struggles inside the Octagon continued last weekend at UFC Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya, who entered his fight with Joe Pyfer on a three-fight losing streak, lost to Pyfer by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/israel-adesanya\/pros-react-after-joe-pyfer-tkos-israel-adesanya-at-ufc-seattle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second-round TKO at Climate Pledge Arena<\/a>. Despite a strong start to the bout, Adesanya got caught by several devastating blows from Pyfer before he was finished in a brutal ground-and-pound sequence.<\/p>\n<p>After UFC Seattle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/israel-adesanya\/israel-adesanya-ufc-seattle-loss-hall-of-famer-anderson-silva-decline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping<\/a> called for Adesanya to hang up the gloves to avoid a similar fate as Anderson Silva and other legends who struggled in the final chapters of their career. But Adesanya seems keen on fighting at least one more time in the Octagon after expressing optimism in his first post-fight social media remarks.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, another UFC legend wants Adesanya to hang up the gloves after watching Adesanya\u2019s latest defeat from Octagonside.<\/p>\n<p>Demetrious Johnson presses Israel Adesanya to retire after UFC Seattle<\/p>\n<p>In a recent appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/kkOq8M8juPA?si=UtJRvR3vw2eqi90C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>, Demetrious Johnson reacted to Adesanya\u2019s performance and was brutally honest in opining on his fighting future.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I care about the athletes, I don\u2019t like to see them fight, just because things can happen,\u201d Johnson said of Adesanya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would retire, if I were him\u2026there\u2019s nothing else for him to do in Mixed Martial Arts. He\u2019s done everything, and not even considering the kickboxing matches he\u2019s had as well. He\u2019s been on a tear and put his body on the line, and I think he deserves to relax and enjoy himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like Dustin Poirier \u2013 now that he\u2019s retired, he\u2019s found all of these things he can say \u2018Yes\u2019 to that he couldn\u2019t do before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his fighting accolades, Adesanya has a fast-growing YouTube channel and has expressed interest in moving into music once his fighting career concludes. As of now, Adesanya remains undeterred in his fighting pursuits, but these could be the latest moments of his legendary run.<\/p>\n<p>Should Israel Adesanya hang up the gloves after UFC Seattle? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Fame inductee Demetrious Johnson became the latest big name to call for Israel Adesanya\u2019s retirement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,66052,786,54075,217779,785,85,787,217780],"class_list":{"0":"post-577120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-demetrious-johnson","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-israel-adesanya","13":"tag-joe-pyfer","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-seattle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577120","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=577120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}