Israel Adesanya has defeated Paulo Costa 🏆
He told us Paulo Costa wouldn’t be a problem. And well, the big Brazilian, who might have looked the part, genuinely wasn’t.
Adesanya moved well and varied his attack to keep Costa at bay; whipping out weapons at every level, before a cracking left hook dropped his outmatched opponent. His destruction of Costa was in stark contrast to the five rounds of relative non-action against Yoel Romero earlier this year.“Like Roy Jones said, ‘Y’all must have forgot’,” Adesanya proclaimed.
When Costa did get in close, it was Adesanya who would land, as the City Kickboxing star out of Auckland worked his way around the Abu Dhabi cage like it was home.“So much for Fight of the Year,” UFC president Dana White joked. “[More like] Domination of the Year. It was weird because if you look at every fight that Costa has had, he comes out and goes after people like they owe him money.
Adesanya, who only debuted in the UFC in 2018, is now 9-0 in the organisation, with half the division already on his list of victims.“He’s a hell of a dude, I love his energy. He’s a beautiful, beautiful man, and I said, ‘You destroy Robert Whittaker, and you’re next.’” “I just beat Diego Sanchez — that’s pretty surreal,” Matthews, now on a 3-fight win steak, said after the fight.
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