It might take him longer to get another title shot as long as Adesanya holds the belt because Adesanya now has two wins over him, but Vettori isn’t one to fret about things like that, which are out of his control. That’s what it is about.”Ī win over Costa would be the biggest in his career and inch him back up toward the top of the middleweight rankings. “You can’t let emotions that may stiffen you up take over.
“This is like a game of chess and at this level, it’s a game of details, too,” Vettori said. He not only prepares his body for battle, but his mind as well by giving himself as much information as possible.īut he says he’s also preparing by ignoring the outside noise, the critics who pick apart everything he does. There’s rarely something he sees in the cage that comes as a surprise to him. Vettori’s success comes from being well-rounded and meticulously prepared. Vettori has done well with strikers prior to Adesanya, but Costa is at another level relative to most of them. The best version of Costa is a fearsome, intimidating figure with knockout power and a seek-and-destroy mentality. He’s got a lot to prove, like we all have every fight, but especially coming off this one. “But at the end of the day, I’m expecting the best from him. “How the hell do you ever think to do something like that? It definitely shows some kind of weakness and some lack of what goes on in your own brain and mind. “I thought he was joking, but then it came out that it was actually true,” Vettori said. That came as a shock to the notoriously strong-minded Vettori.
The Brazilian then claimed he was "a little drunk" when he fought Adesanya after drinking "lots of wine" the night before the fight. Costa seemed to mentally break even before the fight and went down in the bout without much of a pushback.
(Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)īoth men are coming off losses to Adesanya Costa was stopped by Adesanya in the second round last year. Israel Adesanya (R) and Marvin Vettori talk after their UFC middleweight championship fight during UFC 263 at Gila River Arena on June 12, 2021, in Glendale, Arizona. I don’t want to leave it in the hands of the judges.” Regardless of thinking of whether I won or I lost, it’s not about that. “But it is what it is and it’s one of the reasons I never want to leave it in the hands of the judges. There’s common sense, and I think there was a lot of misjudging and misleading information about the fight. I just want fairness, but of course, what is fair to one person, another person sees the same thing and it’s not fair. And there was all that s*** the media talked. “What the judges saw is not the perspective of what the fight was. Vettori is a -150 favorite at BetMGM to beat Costa (+125).Īdesanya won his title fight with Vettori 50-45 on all three cards, but Vettori told Yahoo Sports he left the cage even more certain that he’d one day become the UFC world champion. 2 Paulo Costa in a critical matchup at Apex.
There are few in the UFC who believe in themselves more than Vettori, the fifth-ranked middleweight who on Saturday at UFC Vegas 41 will face No. The legendary boxing champion Muhammad Ali once said, “I am the greatest. Only this time, they’d have to do a much better job of making Adesanya feel like he’s playing like himself in the game.Belief in oneself, however, is a critical element of success in all walks of life, but particularly in fighting. All I do is play it in real life.”Īdesanya brings up the real life-to-video game comparisons often when doing his interviews, so this seems like a golden opportunity for EA Sports to make him the face of the next game and put him on the cover of it. “You need to get me in the studio, do the proper stance, get my proper question mark kicks and everything. “Ever since they f*cked me up on EA Sports (UFC 3) and made my body look like Chad Mendes I’ve never touched that game,” Adesanya said. The champ said he looks too much like former featherweight contender Chad Mendes in it and he wants that changed in the next game. Well, it seems like “The Last Stylebender” is not a fan of the UFC’s official game, and he criticized its developers following UFC 243.Īdesanya spoke to reporters at the UFC 243 post-fight press conference and put video game developer EA Sports on blast for doing what he believes was a poor job of portraying him in the game. New UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya says he doesn’t play the official UFC video game because he thinks he looks too much like Chad Mendes in it.Īdesanya has often compared his fighting style to playing in a video game.
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