Name: Israel Adesanya | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #485
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Israel Adesanya | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #485' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-27. Transcript available.

Israel Adesanya | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #485

today's guest brings us to new zealand and we're happy to be here and uh he is
he is a fighter a
kickboxer a artist um he it's fascinating to watch him experience the world he's
a damn human van
gogh of some type of sorts um he's had one of the greatest runs as a ufc
champion i'm just grateful
to spend time with him today mr israel adesanya
shine that light on me i'll sit and tell you my stories
shine on me and i will find a song i've been singing
yeah brother cheers good as i'm a look yeah that's about it healthy eight
i'm an eight you're pretty you're you're probably i mean they don't have a lot
of like
well let's don't go down that road man i can't call another fighter handsome
yeah you can
look into i like the hair if i could mullet i'd definitely do it like for a
season really
yeah fuck yeah well they need someone and i don't want to say who but someone
of certain
culture yeah would be neat to see the jerry curl really yeah i know what you
mean i used to have
jerry curls when i was younger it was a thing maybe in the late 90s early 2000s
but then it's not good
for your scalp really yeah i know all the chemicals in there you also the last
time i did it i burnt
my scalp yeah i left it on too long so then i was like right we're done with
that but also it's not
good for your scalp for your hair because my hair is meant to be as you say nappy
like texturized you
know yeah having to burn it out to straighten it and then put perm and all that
stuff is not oh you
got to do that so it's like you got to straighten it and then so the relaxer
straightens it and and
then you can put the jerry curl in there and then makes it curly but yeah i
never had it long i had it
short but still i mean a mother would be nice though yeah it'll be a cool
fighter i mean who uh miguel
torres ricky simone ricky simone yeah he's got a nice one a lot of guys at the
gym oh well who else
ortega has did he have one brian ortega he just had locks like nice arnold
allen did he have i'm
trying to think a lot of kiwi guys like my guy toes him up a lot of the guys
and a lot of damn women in
this country yeah you're not wrong to be honest bro you'll see a grandma with a
hatchet in this
like this is real it's standard yeah um but it would be awesome on some of the
highlight videos
just to see the fucking whip when you hit someone bang just over getting hit
that's one thing i'm
grateful for is like because i know it looks worse sometimes when you have long
hair and you get hit
and maybe even if you roll with the shot yeah the crowd goes oh yeah and then
you're like they
thought that bro that a whiz passed me but it looked like you got hit because
of the
dude that's what's interesting about you you're that intricate to detail that
you want to even man
it like you want to have a say so in how you even get hit if that makes any
sense like how does that
look to people yeah you know like you're such an entertainer it's like i even
want to make that look
as perfect as possible yeah yeah i try not to get hit but if i'm gonna get hit
i'm being hit by the best
yeah you know a lot of them so um and they're always iconic moments but still
like yeah the game is hit
and don't get hit so i can preserve my uh my noggin yeah my brain want to keep
this intact so i can
keep doing this and i don't have to
you don't want that yeah it is kind of crazy like reporters will totally look
over that a guy can't
even speak just to be like hey how do you feel about this yeah i mean that's
why joe shout out to
him he stopped uh interviewing guys after they've been knocked out because oh
really yeah he said that
i think it was after one of the over him after the over him fight and over him
there's a famous meme or
saying he says i clearly felt to tap because he had steep in a guillotine and
he thought he tapped but
again he just got rocked so you know your brain's not really all there i've
been knocked out before
like cold once shout out to pereira um yeah pereira is that how you say it yeah
pereira alex
portan pereira oh he's a he's he's really yeah i feel like you probably admire
him yeah of course yeah
yeah i look people think i'm i'm not a hater man i'm a guy who we're all in
this game together right
we're all trying to better our our lives for our family and all and generations
and all that
and he's achieved it you know in the beginning when he first came to the ufc
granted he didn't have
the run that i had he got to the spot he got because he already beat me in kickboxing
and i don't
want to hop on too much about this like i'm but i want to give you the history
yeah no no for those
for those who don't know yeah because i'm sure new people will be watching this
so they got to
understand it was literally three nil or two and no two or no two or no so
technically the first fight
i thought i won you know anyone who watched it oh he edged that out and they
gave it to him
and i was like what okay cool second fight we go to brazil i think sao paulo
beautiful oh and i was
there on carnival oh man i was cutting weight so i couldn't be outside but i'll
tell you what oh
i'll never forget this i go downstairs from the hotel when i get to sao paulo
because um you have
to get like a a plug that works you know a converter and then i my phone was on
one percent so i left it
in my room i go downstairs and i'll never forget it i see this guy and two
girls and then one of them
kind of looked back to see what's behind her and smiled and just had the most
beautiful racial ass to
tits i've ever seen in my life and i remember thinking like i wish i could
capture this moment but
i just right there i just right there so but i think they were hookers though
because he was getting
the it was probably like 2 a.m we landed or something so he was getting some
for to go yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah but um yeah that that was beautiful just right there anyway
back to the
fight so i fight alex and then oh especially getting eaten in a couple days
yeah oh man you
don't say i'm hungry hungry but um yeah i get to the fight we're doing work
beating them and then
catches me because i rocked him in the second round and third round he just
came back rallied up and just
caught me flatlining me that's the only time i've ever been knocked out and was
that the kickboxing yeah
kickboxing okay and then yeah when when i came i was i came to i was and i
remember like
they were rushing me trying to put oxygen mask on me i was like i don't need
that hold up and they
tried to take me out on the stretcher as well and i was like chill champ like
it's not that deep
but then i walked to the back and i remember me and you just walk silently to
the back into this white
space and just kind of like huh i was like what do you hit me with he goes left
hook he straight away
just told me left hook it's like your hand didn't come back fast enough i was
like uh but again in
that that time from being knocked out to that moment having a mic in my face
and then so how do you
feel about this fight that wouldn't be ideal so i'm glad joe stopped doing that
um just so the guys
don't have to embarrass themselves or say something that they might regret
later on yeah yeah i never i
i didn't think about how crazy that is that they even do that it's almost like
like kind of like
when you have to do that dizzy bat game you know where you spin your head in my
gym we have this drill
that we haven't done in a while actually but the dizzy bat game and then you do
it 10 times then
you get up and you have to hit the pads just in case you never know in a fight
where you might get
rocked and then you have to keep your keep your composure so yeah dizzy bat
game and then you know most
times it's like you have to run straight but this one you have to right there
one two bye bye one two
three and you're just but again that's what it's like when you get rocked
sometimes and you're just
like oh you have to keep your composure so oh that's interesting it's an old
school drill that the legal boys bar more legal boys had so eugene's done it a
few times but i
might bring it back for some fun actually i might do it for some content that'd
be a good idea it's
in it i feel like it'd be fascinating i've never seen that you ever train uh
yeah i've trained but
i'm just a one-stripe white belt ah i see nice but there's still some
possibility oh you can still
there's levels yeah yeah you can still three stripes imagine that you'd be a
badass oh i'll
somebody up outside of jimmy john's three stripes um dude i watched the
documentary man it was really
cool thank you it was really interesting for you to just like share about like
it felt like what it's
like to to like not only kind of to be to have some of your history but then
also to like the pressures
of how things change once you achieve your dreams and your goals and then how
some of that feels like
it doesn't really fulfill maybe what you thought it was gonna do yeah um like i
could relate to that
a ton man i'm sure wait when did you when did you kind of like like blow up
what what age would you say
i would say like five years ago i think work started getting busier for me
probably maybe about five
years ago you would have been yeah i'm glad i didn't find fame at a young age
like say 25 year old izzy with
everything that i have now bad idea yeah hey theo bad idea that's that's that's
a story for later on
but um yeah i'm glad i found fame later on but but still you know they say be
careful what you wish for
yeah and i don't regret anything i'm ready i prepared for this life but it's it's
still surprising
yeah there's levels there's all these variables you don't expect and i've kind
of set myself up now
to the point where okay i've expressed enough like how i've example what's one
um after the ufc
two three two four three in melbourne um i defended my belt against whitaker
against whitaker so i defended
my belt the first time i like to put it and then going to the airport i
remember just thinking in
the car like because i was kind of just there's so much stimulus because i just
did what i did and
still the to this date the highest attendance in ufc history was six fifty
seven thousand one hundred
twenty seven people and all these everywhere i went you know it was just crazy
even the week fight week
i went down the strip just walked alone just because i was like let me enjoy
this while i can
you know because i didn't know how long i would have that for i can still do it
now but because i
have boundaries now i didn't have that for a long time but what i did on the
way to the airport going
back to nz i just put out a thing on my story or a tweet just saying look if
you see me at the airport
just approach me cautiously you don't have to come yelling because for me i was
oh my god
i'm sure yeah it's crazy it's very scary sometimes you think you're on the bit
in the movie where i
didn't even plan it and they just kind of like drove by and i'm like what the
oh yeah it raised
my adrenaline up and then they came to my door and that's why i moved houses
because people would
just come to my door and oh oh my god and this is like 9 p.m at night i'm like
yo and i had to
let me borrow some quiche yeah guys try to sell me a watch once oh that's
perfect yeah hold up and i
went upstairs came back down i was like i already got this watch bro it was a g-shot
like a black and
gold one classic but then for me i just boundaries i had to learn boundaries
for myself yeah because
you burn out yeah it burns you after i do any kind of media stuff or anything
with fans my people just
know my friends my security just know okay i just go to my room and i just re
regroup or replenish my
social battery if you will and i'm sure you've had to deal with this as well
yeah i didn't know that i had to
do that when it like about two and a half years ago things were going well you
know i was like
being able to sell tickets and stuff and just like you work so hard for it you
know and i didn't know
like i would go meet 