{"id":370870,"date":"2025-12-26T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370870\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:23:13","slug":"israel-adesanya-retired-until-you-see-him-on-a-ufc-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370870\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya \u2018retired\u2019 until you \u2018see him on a UFC poster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Israel Adesanya just wants to fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over the last few years, Adesanya (24-5) has struggled to find the win column, losing three straight and four of his last five. In addition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/11\/12\/23453512\/ufc-281-flashback-video-watch-alex-pereira-ko-israel-adesanya-with-one-punch-espn-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former kickboxer<\/a> was finished in three of those four losses. Perhaps it\u2019s time for \u201cThe Last Stylebender\u201d to get back to the offense that got him to the big dance in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cLike now, whenever I\u2019m out and about in Auckland, I always get, \u2018Oh, are you retired?\u2019\u201d Adesanya told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UZvnAPIBXyE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bangtao Muay Thai &amp; MMA<\/a>. \u201cAnd at first, I used to have to explain myself; like, \u2018Nah, I\u2019m just taking a break. I\u2019m doing other things.\u2018 But now I just go, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m retired\u2018 \u2014 until they see me on a poster. For me, it\u2019s not about belts anymore. I got two shiny belts at home. It looks good, but I just want to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI just want to do things like I did on the way to the belt,\u201d Adesanya added. \u201cI still fought really well when I was defending the belt, but I want to fight more freely. I want to try some risky sh*t like I used to. Like, remember the Brad Tavares fight? I think the end of the first round, I went for an Imanari roll that failed. I want to try sh*t like that again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya just wants to fight. Over the last few years, Adesanya (24-5) has struggled to find the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,98879,702],"class_list":["post-370870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}