Name: UFC 248: Israel Adesanya - "I was the only one willing to dance"
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T16:00:45.000Z
Duration: 5 min 36 s
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And still, he is still your UFC middleweight champion.

Normally, the vibe is very different backstage.

I just want to know how you're feeling right now.

Because after the fight, I was really frustrated that my dance partner didn't want to dance.

So if I'm trying to fight and you're just standing there going Come on, come on, Come on.

I mean, I took his best shot in the first round.

That might be the only round I gave him a look.

He's playing like Oh, yeah, I'm not hurt.

Um, just a little grace, but yeah, I've never been in the border fires this.

I don't want to say it's boring, but for me, I was expecting more of a fight from him, even in the fifth round.

Now he's gonna bring the fight, and I'm just, like, waiting for this surge of something, but, yeah, it takes two to tango.

What was that thought going through your mind?

Especially in the very beginning of that first round where he was just standing.

Still it What was it that you don't want to fight?

I mean, he was genuinely just saying sell for over a minute.

Like I said, it's hard to try and play with someone who's just playing hard to get.

You're gonna chase me, and I'm the hot chicken.

And at the bar, you know, I'm the one with the belt.

So if you want, if you want come get the belt.

Come get the belt, Understand the end like wait for me to come to you.

So I want to talk about positive things here.

In terms of your performance, My focus, my focus?

Because this is how he catches a lot of people.

They get bored because I could have got bored in the I was starting to get bored a little bit, so they get bored, and then he explodes on you.

So for me, it was like my coach said, You need 25 minutes of absolute focus.

So for me, I stay focused the whole time and, yeah, he was boring.

Like I said, Kelvin brought the fight and you see how it is in the fifth round.

So for me, Yeah, that was all just waiting for me.

And at the end of the fight, little come.

At the end of the day, I did my best, but on my worst night still beat the number three guy in the world.

Were you surprised by the hostility at the end of the fight?

I mean, people in the crowd, they've been drinking since, like 4 p.m. Mrs Vega's I mean, from ul all from you all.

Uh, of course, now he's trying to get what's mine.

He couldn't think whatever he wants to think, you know?

Well, I think he's point drunk, so Yeah, he Whatever.

You had an amazing walk out yet again for a soft, great song.

When did you know that was something you wanted to dio?

February 10th the day my cat got run over?

I used that as, ah, as a motivation, Yes.

And that kind of like, I mean after Kobe that I was aware that sparring, But, I mean, me and my cat used to go for walks.

And I thought she was gonna be around for the next 20 years, so yeah, I know it's just the cat for most people, but for me, it was different.

I didn't even deal with it this whole camp, so yeah.

That we have them because they're part of our family.

Listen, I gave me inspiration just to, like, make things happen in life.

I keep crying every other one time, but yeah, um, for me.

I gave me inspiration, and I had this metamorphosis in my car for about three hours.

And that's when that vision came to me through listening to tracks on my old phone.

And music has a will evoking different emotions.

So listen the old tracks that I hadn't heard in so long and I had that on repeat.

And then through that metamorphosis, I kept on getting these visions off what it's gonna look like aesthetically for the viewers.

And, uh, yeah, just what if every tent is when it came to me?

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