Earlier than Israel Adesanya delivered a memorable efficiency within the octagon in opposition to Robert Whittaker to turn out to be the undisputed UFC middleweight champion, Adesanya created one of the iconic walkouts in UFC historical past.
Adesanya took half in a brief choreographed dance on the entrance manner earlier than making his stroll to the octagon in Melbourne, Australia, the place he went on to brutally knock out Whittaker to unify the UFC’s 185-pound title.
A bit over 5 years later, “The Final Stylebender” revealed how the dance and walkout got here collectively to the Our Yeah podcast.
“This was only for enjoyable,” Adesanya mentioned. “For me, I loved doing this as a result of I prepped the night time earlier than this walkout. So, going to mattress, I had the replay of the walkout, the follow, in my cellphone, and I used to be like, ‘F*ck, that is going to look cool as f*ck’ as I fell asleep.
“So I wasn’t apprehensive concerning the struggle. We already did the work.”
Adesanya practically completed Whittaker within the first, however got here again out in Spherical 2 and unleashed a nasty left hook to get “The Reaper” out in Spherical 2 to get the largest win of his profession at the moment.
At present, Adesanya is at a profession crossroads after shedding three straight fights, and 4 of his previous 5. In his two most up-to-date contests, Adesanya was stopped by Nasourdine Imavov in the principle occasion of UFC Saudi Arabia earlier this yr, and middleweight champ Dricus du Plessis at UFC 305 this previous August.
