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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Israel Adesanya ‘not a real fighter', says Joaquin Buckley after detailing run-in with UFC star
Joaquin Buckley has accused Israel Adesanya of not being a 'real fighter', after the UFC stars offered their respective accounts on a run-in between them. After Buckley suffered a one-sided decision loss to Kamaru Usman on Saturday (14 June), the latter's friend Adesanya hit out at Buckley, saying on his YouTube channel: 'I hate [him], bro. I don't even use the word 'hate' lightly, but I hate [him], bro. Advertisement 'Something about him just f*****g annoys me. The coolest thing about him is that kick [Buckley's 2020 knockout of Impa Kasanganay]. I respect that.' Then, describing a moment in which he met Buckley at the UFC Performance Institute, the former two-time middleweight champion said: 'Literally, I'm just trying to chill, talk. [He says:] 'Hey, man, we've gotta get this going, duh duh duh duh duh duh,' like he's rapping. 'Every single time. He's just so f*****g annoying. At one point, I literally walked away while he was talking... and I think he didn't like that, so he went against me since then. But f*** the dude. Maybe I'm a hater, bro, maybe I'm just a hater.' Welterweight Buckley then used his own YouTube channel to fire back at Adesanya, saying on Thursday (19 June): 'He knows what it is to take an L, but to say that you hate a motherf***** and you're glad that they lost, you're glad that they didn't achieve their dreams is wild to me, bro. Advertisement 'Like, bro, why the f*** you mad at me? What the f*** did I do to you? I kind of find it funny that you're hating on me, you need to be hating on the motherf****** that took your belt. Jaoquin Buckley must go back to the drawing board after losing to Kamaru Usman (Getty) 'He's trying to be funny, he's trying to use his platform to talk s*** on me, but that really just shows me the potential of my name, and how big I'm becoming. Just like when I met his ass at the [Performance Institute], and I ran up on him and was like, 'Hey, bro, I think we'd be a good-ass fight, [Adesanya] was quiet at the time. 'But see, I'm man enough to come up to your face. Tell me how you feel to my face, bro [...] You're all underneath the covers like: 'Man, I hate that [guy].' You ain't no real fighter. You want to be a little pretty boy.' Advertisement American Buckley, 31, appeared to be closing in on a welterweight title shot before his loss to Usman, a former champion in the division. Meanwhile, Adesanya, 35, finds himself in the unusual position of riding a three-fight losing streak. After regaining the middleweight title from old rival Alex Pereira in April 2023, the 'Last Stylebender' lost the belt to Sean Strickland that September. Then, last August, Adesanya suffered a submission loss to Strickland's successor Dricus Du Plessis. The Nigerian-born New Zealander attempted to bounce back against Nassourdine Imavov in February, but he was stopped in round two. Israel Adesanya (right) during his 2024 loss to Dricus Du Plessis (Getty Images) Adesanya's first reign with the belt lasted three years and featured five successful title defences, with those same numbers applying to Usman's welterweight title run. Advertisement After surviving a difficult fifth round to outpoint Buckley, Usman, who had employed his trademark wrestling impressively in the first four frames, held back tears in the cage. 'It's been a while,' he said. 'I needed to get that monkey off my back. I know I'm still able to do this at the highest level. Sometimes when you're going up against a young, hungry guy like that – very talented, very aggressive – you've got to pull out the skills and use the experience. 'Before I go, I just wanted to say that I have a lot of emotions coming into this one [...] a lot of things that I had to battle back from. I'm holding back all the emotions. Unfortunately, my daughter can't be here with me tonight. That's another long story. But man, I just want to say thank you to everybody – thank you to my family, my coaches who kept me going, Buckley for bringing the challenge.'
The Independent
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Israel Adesanya ‘not a real fighter', says Joaquin Buckley after detailing run-in with UFC star
Joaquin Buckley has accused Israel Adesanya of not being a 'real fighter', after the UFC stars offered their respective accounts on a run-in between them. After Buckley suffered a one-sided decision loss to Kamaru Usman on Saturday (14 June), the latter's friend Adesanya hit out at Buckley, saying on his YouTube channel: 'I hate [him], bro. I don't even use the word 'hate' lightly, but I hate [him], bro. 'Something about him just f*****g annoys me. The coolest thing about him is that kick [Buckley's 2020 knockout of Impa Kasanganay]. I respect that.' Then, describing a moment in which he met Buckley at the UFC Performance Institute, the former two-time middleweight champion said: 'Literally, I'm just trying to chill, talk. [He says:] 'Hey, man, we've gotta get this going, duh duh duh duh duh duh,' like he's rapping. 'Every single time. He's just so f*****g annoying. At one point, I literally walked away while he was talking... and I think he didn't like that, so he went against me since then. But f*** the dude. Maybe I'm a hater, bro, maybe I'm just a hater.' Welterweight Buckley then used his own YouTube channel to fire back at Adesanya, saying on Thursday (19 June): 'He knows what it is to take an L, but to say that you hate a motherf***** and you're glad that they lost, you're glad that they didn't achieve their dreams is wild to me, bro. 'Like, bro, why the f*** you mad at me? What the f*** did I do to you? I kind of find it funny that you're hating on me, you need to be hating on the motherf****** that took your belt. 'He's trying to be funny, he's trying to use his platform to talk s*** on me, but that really just shows me the potential of my name, and how big I'm becoming. Just like when I met his ass at the [Performance Institute], and I ran up on him and was like, 'Hey, bro, I think we'd be a good-ass fight, [Adesanya] was quiet at the time. 'But see, I'm man enough to come up to your face. Tell me how you feel to my face, bro [...] You're all underneath the covers like: 'Man, I hate that [guy].' You ain't no real fighter. You want to be a little pretty boy.' American Buckley, 31, appeared to be closing in on a welterweight title shot before his loss to Usman, a former champion in the division. Meanwhile, Adesanya, 35, finds himself in the unusual position of riding a three-fight losing streak. After regaining the middleweight title from old rival Alex Pereira in April 2023, the 'Last Stylebender' lost the belt to Sean Strickland that September. Then, last August, Adesanya suffered a submission loss to Strickland's successor Dricus Du Plessis. The Nigerian-born New Zealander attempted to bounce back against Nassourdine Imavov in February, but he was stopped in round two. Adesanya's first reign with the belt lasted three years and featured five successful title defences, with those same numbers applying to Usman's welterweight title run. After surviving a difficult fifth round to outpoint Buckley, Usman, who had employed his trademark wrestling impressively in the first four frames, held back tears in the cage. 'It's been a while,' he said. 'I needed to get that monkey off my back. I know I'm still able to do this at the highest level. Sometimes when you're going up against a young, hungry guy like that – very talented, very aggressive – you've got to pull out the skills and use the experience. 'Before I go, I just wanted to say that I have a lot of emotions coming into this one [...] a lot of things that I had to battle back from. I'm holding back all the emotions. Unfortunately, my daughter can't be here with me tonight. That's another long story. But man, I just want to say thank you to everybody – thank you to my family, my coaches who kept me going, Buckley for bringing the challenge.'
USA Today
a day ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Joaquin Buckley ramps up beef with 'ho' and 'pretty boy' ex-UFC champ Israel Adesanya
Joaquin Buckley ramps up beef with 'ho' and 'pretty boy' ex-UFC champ Israel Adesanya Joaquin Buckley went off on Israel Adesanya for hating on him. Adesanya watched his friend Kamaru Usman beat Buckley by unanimous decision in this past Saturday's UFC on ESPN 69 headliner. While giving his breakdown on his YouTube channel, Adesanya couldn't help but give his true feelings towards Buckley and how much he dislikes him. "I hate this n*gga, bro," Adesanya said. "I don't even use the word hate lightly, but I hate this n*gga, bro. Something about him just f*cking annoys me. Coolest thing he's ever done is that kick, and I respect that. Literally, I'm just trying to chill, talk. 'Hey man, we've got to get this going, you and me.' "Like he's rapping to me. Every single time. He's just so f*cking annoying. At one point I literally walked away while as he was talking, and I think he didn't like that, so then he went against me since then. But f*ck the dude. Maybe I'm a hater, bro. Maybe I'm just a hater." Buckley (21-7 MMA, 11-5 UFC) fired back at former champion Adesanya (24-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) for trying to bring him down. "Tell me how you feel to my face though, instead of being like a ho," Buckley responded on his YouTube channel. "You all underneath the covers and sh*t. Like, 'Mmm I hate that n*gga.' Sweet motherf*cker because I don't know why you on my d*ck anyway. You done your thing, you been at your spot, I'm working towards mine. You ain't no real fighter. You want to be a little pretty boy. I would give you a sample, but I don't like boy p*ssy. "You can get this work any given time. I can give it to you, but I just hate fighters like you because you tryna downplay on somebody that's trying to work towards something. What you hating on me for? You did what you did, but look at another brother trying to make it up and you want to clown him. Oh, but I forgot n*gga, you're Chinese. You ain't another brother. The real African that runs that spot is (Dricus Du Plessis)." Buckley, who started out his UFC career at middleweight, is willing to settle things with Adesanya inside or outside the octagon. "We can really get busy if you want to," Buckley said. "And guess what? It ain't got to be competition with the UFC setting this up. We can get busy if you want to."
NZ Herald
20-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Dan Hooker-backed fight event criticised by boxing coach over safety concerns
The tournament appears to be connected to a social media influencer and has links to an online gambling site. On May 14, Hooker posted a video to social media with MMA fighter and former UFC middleweight champion Adesanya endorsing the event and encouraging people to bring the whānau. 'Bring the family, bring the whānau, bring everyone, come watch, you'll get knocked out or knock someone the f*** out,' Adesanya said. In another video posted on May 17, Hooker said too many fighters had registered, 'so if everyone wants to drop their nuts that would be f***ing great, hit me up'. Meehan told Checkpoint the event is a street scrap and should not be classified as boxing. 'The rules are a lot different. For starters, we don't do one-minute rounds. You're saying to the guy in the corner get out and start smashing the other guy as best you can. Boxing is an art form; it's a sport and this is straight-out thuggery.' In professional Olympic-style boxing, athletes use 10oz or 12oz gloves, 'nobody wears 4oz MMA gloves', he said. 'What you've got there is just thugs getting in there and going out and they're just like absolutely smashing each other and we're going to see somebody get seriously hurt, if not killed.' To promote a boxing tournament, organisers must have a police permit, he said. 'It's got to be sanctioned by a sanctioning body. They're not even advertising where they're holding this so the police obviously don't even know.' He said there is a list of regulations on the Boxing and Wrestling Act. 'Other rules and regulations [are] around weights, weigh-ins, full medicals, blood tests and it just goes on and on. 'People who can hold boxing tournaments are actually listed on the Wrestling and Boxing Act. Dan Hooker's not on the Wrestling and Boxing Act.' The implications of the fight having no weight restrictions are that someone could be seriously hurt, Meehan said. '[If] you've got a 70kg boxer or fighter getting in and fighting a 120kg fighter, you've got a little bit of difference here. Somebody's going to get hurt. 'They're actually saying to both sides to go just go out there and smash.' In a sanctioned, Olympic-style boxing tournament, every fighter must have a full medical check beforehand and there are doctors on site, he said. 'We have a registration book; everything is recorded in there. Your weight, your record, your experience, so when you're matching, you're matching against similar experience, we have weight divisions.' He said he has been seeing similar fights pop up around New Zealand. 'There's a lot of it starting to happen. Other ones that I know are involved, it's a quick buck for them. We've got one setting up at the moment, it's called Semi-pro. There's no such thing. 'It's just barbaric, the biggest issue is the people getting in the ring half the time aren't conditioned enough to be there, they aren't matched correctly.'
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
David Goggins explains what sets apart Israel Adesanya in the UFC
Photo byIsrael Adesanya isn't quite sitting at the top of the UFC middleweight division anymore, but what he's done in the sport still echoes loudly—and for someone like David Goggins , it's not just the wins that matter. It's how he got them. After Adesanya's huge comeback win over Alex Pereira at UFC 287 , Goggins, a man who's built his life around toughness and mental grit, explained what he sees in Adesanya that separates him from every other fighter in the game. And it's not just about the knockout . David Goggins reveals why Israel Adesanya has the strongest mindset in the UFC Israel Adesanya's rivalry with Alex Pereira is the kind of story you almost can't script. Three losses—two in kickboxing, one in the UFC—and then, out of nowhere, a thunderous knockout that turned the tide. It was more than just a win; it was Adesanya reclaiming his narrative. And David Goggins noticed something not everyone did. 'No one, no one that I've ever seen—the way you celebrate, you celebrate in that moment,' Goggins told Adesanya during a conversation on the FREESTYLEBENDER YouTube channel. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025 Top Trending local enterprise accounting software [Click Here] Esseps Learn More Undo 'You're not like, 'Oh, I won,' and then you come back and do it. [No], you already visualized what the f*** you were gonna do because when you beat him, it happened so fast with you pulling for those arrows… That s*** was sick.' Israel Adesanya and David Goggins Chat Before Their BRUTAL Training Session Turns out, Adesanya did visualize it—down to the bow-and-arrow celebration he pulled off in the Octagon. He'd rehearsed it in the shower, knowing exactly how he wanted that moment to go down. But what really impressed Goggins wasn't the celebration—it was the road Adesanya had to walk just to get there. He'd torn his MCL just weeks before the fight. He could've pulled out. He didn't. 'You kept coming after the demon,' Goggins said. 'How fast you came back after you lost, that was purposeful.' And the fight itself wasn't easy. Pereira was battering Adesanya's legs again—just like he did the first time. 'After the second [leg kick], I was like 'f***, again?'' Adesanya admitted. But he stuck through it, bounced off the cage, and cracked Pereira with a right hand that dropped him like a stone. Also Read: Dustin Poirier plans Lil Wayne walkout for UFC 318 retirement fight against Max Holloway This is what Goggins is talking about. The knockouts, the belts, the highlights—they're great. But it's the mindset, the visualization , the refusal to quit when every reason to do so is staring you in the face—that's the real win. As Goggins said, 'That mindset? That's the separator.' And for Adesanya, it might be what keeps him in the conversation of all-time greats, even when he's not holding the belt.
