MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cHe looked less out of position when he finished punching, when he initiated punching. Sometimes he still did his thing, but he looked really good. Some of the shots he was throwing, the selection, and the timing of the knee for that single-leg, that was a good chess move from their team.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI wanted Kamaru to get it done, but again, it just shows how good Dricus is. And good on him,\u201d said Adesanya.<\/p>\n
Adesanya and du Plessis previously shared a heated rivalry centred on comments about African identity, which added extra significance to their title fight. However, relations have since improved, with Adesanya saying the result is a positive development for mixed martial arts across Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good for us anyway,\u201d said Adesanya. \u201c\u2026 Just for African MMA. Because off this \u2026 every time one of these happens, look, another two African fighters fight in the main event, the whole continent is going to watch. Even though it\u2019s just a Fight Night, they\u2019re still gonna watch and support. I think this is just going to expand the talent pool in African MMA more. And I look forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya praised Dricus du Plessis following the South African\u2019s unanimous decision victory over Kamaru Usman in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-816499","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\/816499","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=816499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}