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Hello Hivers,
Today I’ll like to tell you about my favorite UFC fighter of all time “The Last Stylebender”, Israel Adesanya
My favorite sport has always been football ⚽️ and still is, but my interest in UFC has grown over the past years due to the recent displays.
The Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC) has a lot of big names with the likes Kamaru Usman 🇳🇬” “The Nigerian nightmare”(UFC welterweight champion), Francis Ngannou🇨🇲(UFC heavyweight champion), Charles Oliveira 🇧🇷(Former UFC lightweight champion) And other UFC superstars that I admire so much but my top favorite is Israel Mobolaji Temitayo Odunayo Oluwafemi Owolabi Adesanya also known as “The last Stylebender”.
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Israel Adesanya is a Nigerian born New Zealander born on 2nd July, 1989(33 years) in Lagos Nigeria 🇳🇬. A boxer, mixed martial artist and a former kickboxer. He’s the current UFC middleweight champion with record 23-1-0; T(KO) 15-0, and submission 0-0 and also a former tittle competitor in glory middleweight championship (kick boxing). Israel Adesanya is currently ranked 3rd behind Usman Kamaru and Alexander Volkanovski in the Men’s Pound-for-Pound rankings UFC rankings. The athlete is undefeated in MMA at 185 Ib, however He lost twice to Alex Pereira in kick boxing, who remains the only person in Combat sports to ever knockout Adesanya.
Early life
While in Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬 at his early ages, Israel Adesanya enrolled in his school’s Taekwondo club, He was later removed by his mother due to an injury he suffered. He moved to New Zealand 🇳🇿 to attend school at the age of ten..Adesanya pursued BSC.Computer Science at the Universal College of Learning in Whanganui in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand after he completed high school.
Mom: Taiwo
Father: Oluwafemi
Career
Israel Adesanya got inspired by Muay Thai actor in the movie Ong Bak to join kickboxing, so he enrolled in the training at the age of 18 years. At the age of 20, Adesanya quit school and pursued a career in kickboxing. Before becoming a professional he had a record of 32-0. At age of 25 Adesanya had his first professional match, he entered the super 8 boxing tournament in his first year but couldn’t win.he went on to win it his second year.
Professional Boxing records
Number of matches: 6 matches played
wins: 5
T(KO):1
Lost : 1
Professional KickBoxing records
Number of matches: 80 matches played
wins : 75
T(KO):29 - 1
Lost : 5
MMA records
number of matches: 22 matches played
Wins : 21
T(KO): 15
Lost : 1
The Last Stylebender is currently one of the best in the UFC due to his determination to win and his confidence and that’s what I admire most about him. He’s also a very good entertainer if you watch him.