Name: Israel Adesanya Gives an Update on His Return to Fighting
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Israel Adesanya Gives an Update on His Return to Fighting' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-28. Transcript available.

there's some things that were meant to happen uh they summoned me they summoned
me i'm sure this
is out there now eugene said some stuff but they summoned me they summoned me
for 300 and i was
like yep let's roll but their side didn't want it so i was like well fuck it i'm
just gonna keep
who ddp side yeah they didn't want it but i you know they just fought strickland
so
maybe he had a little bit niggly injuries and stuff but hey we all we all got
little
you know niggles and whatnot so yeah um but i've i've fought injured for the
last how many fights
so that's why i took time off just to let my body heal and it has healed and
yeah i'm sure there'll
be more injuries it just happens through training like what we do for work i
can't even imagine so
when you do look at like so you've had some time off and stuff when you was it
like did you want
to recalibrate what you because you've you've gotten to achieve your dreams
right yeah and there's
something over and over and over and over again yeah like i mean it's
unprecedented you know like
you've you mastered what you set out to do so then it's interesting because now
you're a master
who is um who's already achieved everything you can achieve in the game but
there's still more that i
want to do for myself right that's what i i guess i'm wondering like how does
that how do you start to
separate those two and what is that even you know i haven't mastered the game
yet i'm still learning
every day even right now we're working again on my jab because i'm changing it
up now because there's so
much footage on me people can watch the smart coaches and they can kind of game
plan like my
question mark it was everyone up early on got to like maybe after the robert
whitaker
fight maybe the romero fight no costa fight actually costa avoided it but he he
didn't fall he fell for a
different kick but um so from that five people kind of like know the question
marks coming so they're all
scared of it my jab was vicious it still is but i'm just bringing it back i'm
tuning it up again so
it's it's it's constant evolution constant learning every time and my grappling
as well i want to show
it off i do want to show it off in the cage i did a little bit in my fight with
alex in new york a little
bit but um you want to more yeah i want to things you want to do yeah oh wow
the belt and all that
it's more about highlights yeah for me i'm a highlight guy yeah i know that's
what's interesting
it's like that's what i was wondering i was like does he miss some of the trash
talking and just the
you know like when it's raw when it's honest yeah like me and costa it was good
because i didn't like
the guy he didn't like me and barracchino is that his name bar china whatever
yeah yeah so again like
he's a guy that when i fought him and again i had a lackluster performance
against romero because
he didn't want to engage so people were like oh him and it was i have the most
exciting title fight
in history and the most boring title fight in history i do it all but um after
that fight
people were talking like oh this and that right about rob he's a boring fighter
and it's weird
uh i see it now they just forget they forget and i'm like bro i gave you so
much classics so quick
people forget man yeah but then um for me when that fight came about i didn't
like him and he
reminded me of every jock i had oh yeah right he was very you know good looking
oh like just very
muscular conditioner yeah oh bro the guy and he was talking so much to everyone
and then the streets
was like he went three rounds with romero he went three rounds and i'm like
yeah i went five rounds
remember i was like but you didn't do shit fuck you gonna i was like i can't
watch this watch this so
when i fought him i remember i just i was so i was dialed in bro i was down
there watching that we
went to after the show we went to a bar i think we're in indiana somewhere we're
in the apex at the
oh not the apex um the fight island that was fight island and yeah i um i took
him out i took him
for for a ride i took it i took his virginity as well nah he didn't touch me
once apart from in the
legs i did seeing that yeah and he just approved 100 well it's also in some
cultures it's more
it's dominance it's just more appropriate too yeah but i mean like for me i
just felt it was the most
dominating thing i could do to him because he was in that position so yeah in
brazil being engaged
just like two guys dancing yeah or just dancing five yeah oh so they'll have
some high fives that'll
last a long time and look at the technique look at the squat on the man yeah it
was good
it was a good time i enjoyed it no regrets what did you think of his uh of his
fight with whitaker
it's a good fight i liked it i like this jab in that fight yeah i was like okay
he came back but man
that earned the first round when you when you rocked him with the wheel kick
yeah who did not expect that
and then again at the end of the round so he got saved by the bell came back
and whitaker just just
out gutsed him he just out guts him i thought it was close yeah i thought maybe
maybe costa might have
won i felt he might have won but then when they gave it to whitaker i was like
huh okay well it wasn't
a robbery but i thought costa probably had it um but yeah he was good he looked
good in that fight he's
he wasn't the same after this everyone keeps telling me that you ruined that
man really you think that
i don't think after that fight he wasn't the same he was on a run he had this i'll
tell you this you
look at the fight you look at the first round the way he looked at me and they
look at the second round
when he's like like you see his face the demeanor changed i love those moments
you take their soul away
you just know like this guy knows he doesn't want to be locked in here with me
and it's like during a
video game but their controller's gone yeah bad dream for him bad dream for him
so it's like
yeah i like that moment um but yeah i like the guy he's funny he's i think he's
an entertainer he's
i agree he's entertaining uh he's got his secret juice secret juice and all
that it's fun what about
like yeah demetrius johnson was talking about and we had this clip but i'm sure
you saw but he was
talking about that to to beat ddp you would need uh you need to brush up on
your ground game oh for me
yeah yeah i got something i got a little something do you prefer to fight guys
where it's more like
because some people like to fight up top like poor is like that he likes to and
it's fun to watch him
there you know and some of the fights where it's on the ground honestly respect
100 but they can be a
little less exciting yeah um especially for the fans because they're being
there since five hours six
hours drinking and they're just like standing my ref i enjoy grappling i enjoy
i love it uh but no one's
being able to keep me in that position that's the thing in how many ufc fights
and people think oh he's
about to get exposed in this fight it's like that's the only person would know
jan but he didn't do
anything he just used his weight he didn't try and finish me yeah really try
and beat me up to the
last like eight seconds but yeah he just wanted to win the round so he kept me
to use his weight
and i wasn't really used to that at the at the minute at the time so um that's
a good point yeah
costa couldn't yeah a lot of the guys they can't catch you so you can't say hey
this guy doesn't
like to go to the ground it's like well if you can't get him to the ground he
shouldn't lay down
there and meet a guy down there what am i going to butt scoot like come on
buddy i'm gonna get you
nah um i'm great on the feet so i like to keep the fight standing but i do
enjoy the clinch i enjoy the
clinch i enjoy i enjoy the ground as well but in the gym it's different than in
a fight
and i'm getting more comfortable on the ground in the gym which makes me you
know even better in
the fight but um yeah just no one's being able to like take me and keep me
there to see anything
yeah yeah yeah that shouldn't be like yeah that's not a fault of yours it's
interesting because sometimes
you'll just hear a lead yeah yeah you'll hear a leading you're like yeah that's
right yeah no i mean
fake news that happens all the time they just throw something out there hope it
sticks and everyone
latches onto it and then that can just be clicks oh yeah clicks views attention
that turns to money
for them crazy so while i wasn't fighting i um i took up other things like okay
september i feel
like when you're not fighting i feel like you're in zelda breath of the wild
that's what it's like i
think honestly like like playing the game literally yeah i know but you're in
the in the like i can do
anything like i'm i've got money i've got a passport go anywhere but um for me
i took up things like golf
golf's my new favorite pastime in a way because i like it because it's it's
soft it's it's a bit more um
slow paced people say oh what about tennis or something i'm like something soft
something that's
chill because my life is chaos when i'm in the gym murderers trying to kill me
all the time working out
cardio strength last year i went skydiving first time first time did it in uh
abu dhabi and that was
dope it was sick no way who'd you go with other fighters or no no uh devon haney
was there actually he
did it after me yeah the boxer and then um yeah uh dude that's crazy it's fun
like i can't believe
you've never been no i wanted and you only have to do seven more times i can go
by myself so there's
a place like a bad idea no i'm gonna do it you are so even okay bro this is me
yeah i'm already even
i've got a motorcycle riding lesson on saturday because and again my mom's a
nurse so she's already
told me nope nope oh because she's seen the worst yeah a lot of the organ
donors are come from
motorcyclists that's what i've heard you could do pink slips with strickland if
you guys know i'm good
oh does he ride oh he does ride motorcycles but somebody would get right fight
him yeah i'd rather
fight him yeah do what we do the man dance i want to do a man dance but um yeah
so for me skydiving
motorcycle riding i might get into that unless i get talked out of it but um
yeah something that just
gets me going that's why for me i know when i'm done with this game at least
every few months i need
to do something that'll make me feel like i'm about to die like something scary
something that makes me
go like this is this is happening this is legit this is real i could die in
this so why is
that so important you think to people i think it's for me i'm an adrenaline
junkie really yeah i'm an
adrenaline junkie i've accepted that about myself um and i think he's just i i
even alex spoke about
it after his islam fight where he said like you know just sitting around like
you you know you need
to do something you need to do something and i felt that a lot of fighters felt
that so for me that's
why i say giving me free time with what i have now can be a bad idea but i'm
glad that i'm older
now a little a lot wiser yeah there's a composer element to you that i think is
really interesting
because it's like and that's why i wonder about like yeah does he still love
like what does he
want to do with fighting just because there's a lot of options in life yeah and
sometimes creativity can
you know flow and just you know you can decide like yeah i've you know what
else do i want to
i can you know be uh an actor do i want to you know i'll act i've already like
turned down a few roles
a few high profile roles because i wanted to make sure i focus on fighting that's
the one thing i
wanted to focus on was fighting i don't ever want to get sidetracked and yeah
that's too much yeah
because i know what i can focus on and then if i do then things can get squirrely
so i'd rather not
but um yeah dude if you were like a fighter pilot or something yeah sick or if
you were like in a war
like in a war movie yeah yeah but i wouldn't say no i wouldn't say i'll say it
off i'll say it after
this but like but yeah um i'm definitely gonna have you know i already got ties
in hollywood like
people want to work with me which is cool and i do my own stunts i mean save
money yeah don't say
i like what you're thinking yeah save money i do my own stunts you don't have
to get a stunt double
um but also i'll have my own production company and i will like maybe make some
some characters
like some anime or just have weird ideas bro like sometimes i'm i don't know
how to write a screenplay
but i'll get someone who can i can just vomit words at them and they can just
put it in
a way that's digestible for tv or netflix or you know a crunchy roll or
whatever yeah stylebender
studios i mean stylebender is such a great it's like the greatest moniker
honestly in a lot of
ways because there's just so many you don't even know what it is but you know
what it is yeah i got
it from even they just dropped the live action uh the avatar series the last
airbender just dropped
yesterday oh yeah in new zealand i'm gonna watch it tonight but um for me i
when i was watching that i i
i love that show i grew up on that show so for me i got the name because i felt
in this realm
i want to master all the elements of martial arts and realize my destiny as the
avatar and i felt
like i was the one so i have and i'm still doing it and now you know the middleweight
division needs
me again so this is i'm it's all about the story you're telling yourself signal
yeah exactly like
what story are you telling yourself
Thank you.

Israel Adesanya Gives an Update on His Return to Fighting

there's some things that were meant to happen uh they summoned me they summoned
me i'm sure this
is out there now eugene said some stuff but they summoned me they summoned me
for 300 and i was
like yep let's roll but their side didn't want it so i was like well fuck it i'm
just gonna keep
who ddp side yeah they didn't want it but i you know they just fought strickland
so
maybe he had a little bit niggly injuries and stuff but hey we all we all got
little
you know niggles and whatnot so yeah um but i've i've fought injured for the
last how many fights
so that's why i took time off just to let my body heal and it has healed and
yeah i'm sure there'll
be more injuries it just happens through training like what we do for work i
can't even imagine so
when you do look at like so you've had some time off and stuff when you was it
like did you want
to recalibrate what you because you've you've gotten to achieve your dreams
right yeah and there's
something over and over and over and over again yeah like i mean it's
unprecedented you know like
you've you mastered what you set out to do so then it's interesting because now
you're a master
who is um who's already achieved everything you can achieve in the game but
there's still more that i
want to do for myself right that's what i i guess i'm wondering like how does
that how do you start to
separate those two and what is that even you know i haven't mastered the game
yet i'm still learning
every day even right now we're working again on my jab because i'm changing it
up now because there's so
much footage on me people can watch the smart coaches and they can kind of game
plan like my
question mark it was everyone up early on got to like maybe after the robert
whitaker
fight maybe the romero fight no costa fight actually costa avoided it but he he
didn't fall he fell for a
different kick but um so from that five people kind of like know the question
marks coming so they're all
scared of it my jab was vicious it still is but i'm just bringing it back i'm
tuning it up again so
it's it's it's constant evolution constant learning every time and my grappling
as well i want to show
it off i do want to show it off in the cage i did a little bit in my fight with
alex in new york a little
bit but um you want to more yeah i want to things you want to do yeah oh wow
the belt and all that
it's more about highlights yeah for me i'm a highlight guy yeah i know that's
what's interesting
it's like that's what i was wondering i was like does he miss some of the trash
talking and just the
you know like when it's raw when it's honest yeah like me and costa it was good
because i didn't like
the guy he didn't like me and barracchino is that his name bar china whatever
yeah yeah so again like
he's a guy that when i fought him and again i had a lackluster performance
against romero because
he didn't want to engage so people were like oh him and it was i have the most
exciting title fight
in history and the most boring title fight in history i do it all but um after
that fight
people were talking like oh this and that right about rob he's a boring fighter
and it's weird
uh i see it now they just forget they forget and i'm like bro i gave you so
much classics so quick
people forget man yeah but then um for me when that fight came about i didn't
like him and he
reminded me of every jock i had oh yeah right he was very you know good looking
oh like just very
muscular conditioner yeah oh bro the guy and he was talking so much to everyone
and then the streets
was like he went three rounds with romero he went three rounds and i'm like
yeah i went five rounds
remember i was like but you didn't do shit fuck you gonna i was like i can't
watch this watch this so
when i fought him i remember i just i was so i was dialed in bro i was down
there watching that we
went to after the show we went to a bar i think we're in indiana somewhere we're
in the apex at the
oh not the apex um the fight island that was fight island and yeah i um i took
him out i took him
for for a ride i took it i took his virginity as well nah he didn't touch me
once apart from in the
legs i did seeing that yeah and he just approved 100 well it's also in some
cultures it's more
it's dominance it's just more appropriate too yeah but i mean like for me i
just felt it was the most
dominating thing i could do to him because he was in that position so yeah in
brazil being engaged
just like two guys dancing yeah or just dancing five yeah oh so they'll have
some high fives that'll
last a long time and look at the technique look at the squat on the man yeah it
was good
it was a good time i enjoyed it no regrets what did you think of his uh of his
fight with whitaker
it's a good fight i liked it i like this jab in that fight yeah i was like okay
he came back but man
that earned the first round when you when you rocked him with the wheel kick
yeah who did not expect that
and then again at the end of the round so he got saved by the bell came back
and whitaker just just
out gutsed him he just out guts him i thought it was close yeah i thought maybe
maybe costa might have
won i felt he might have won but then when they gave it to whitaker i was like
huh okay well it wasn't
a robbery but i thought costa probably had it um but yeah he was good he looked
good in that fight he's
he wasn't the same after this everyone keeps telling me that you ruined that
man really you think that
i don't think after that fight he wasn't the same he was on a run he had this i'll
tell you this you
look at the fight you look at the first round the way he looked at me and they
look at the second round
when he's like like you see his face the demeanor changed i love those moments
you take their soul away
you just know like this guy knows he doesn't want to be locked in here with me
and it's like during a
video game but their controller's gone yeah bad dream for him bad dream for him
so it's like
yeah i like that moment um but yeah i like the guy he's funny he's i think he's
an entertainer he's
i agree he's entertaining uh he's got his secret juice secret juice and all
that it's fun what about
like yeah demetrius johnson was talking about and we had this clip but i'm sure
you saw but he was
talking about that to to beat ddp you would need uh you need to brush up on
your ground game oh for me
yeah yeah i got something i got a little something do you prefer to fight guys
where it's more like
because some people like to fight up top like poor is like that he likes to and
it's fun to watch him
there you know and some of the fights where it's on the ground honestly respect
100 but they can be a
little less exciting yeah um especially for the fans because they're being
there since five hours six
hours drinking and they're just like standing my ref i enjoy grappling i enjoy
i love it uh but no one's
being able to keep me in that position that's the thing in how many ufc fights
and people think oh he's
about to get exposed in this fight it's like that's the only person would know
jan but he didn't do
anything he just used his weight he didn't try and finish me yeah really try
and beat me up to the
last like eight seconds but yeah he just wanted to win the round so he kept me
to use his weight
and i wasn't really used to that at the at the minute at the time so um that's
a good point yeah
costa couldn't yeah a lot of the guys they can't catch you so you can't say hey
this guy doesn't
like to go to the ground it's like well if you can't get him to the ground he
shouldn't lay down
there and meet a guy down there what am i going to butt scoot like come on
buddy i'm gonna get you
nah um i'm great on the feet so i like to keep the fight standing but i do
enjoy the clinch i enjoy the
clinch i enjoy i enjoy the ground as well but in the gym it's different than in
a fight
and i'm getting more comfortable on the ground in the gym which makes me you
know even better in
the fight but um yeah just no one's being able to like take me and keep me
there to see anything
yeah yeah yeah that shouldn't be like yeah that's not a fault of yours it's
interesting because sometimes
you'll just hear a lead yeah yeah you'll hear a leading you're like yeah that's
right yeah no i mean
fake news that happens all the time they just throw something out there hope it
sticks and everyone
latches onto it and then that can just be clicks oh yeah clicks views attention
that turns to money
for them crazy so while i wasn't fighting i um i took up other things like okay
september i feel
like when you're not fighting i feel like you're in zelda breath of the wild
that's what it's like i
think honestly like like playing the game literally yeah i know but you're in
the in the like i can do
anything like i'm i've got money i've got a passport go anywhere but um for me
i took up things like golf
golf's my new favorite pastime in a way because i like it because it's it's
soft it's it's a bit more um
slow paced people say oh what about tennis or something i'm like something soft
something that's
chill because my life is chaos when i'm in the gym murderers trying to kill me
all the time working out
cardio strength last year i went skydiving first time first time did it in uh
abu dhabi and that was
dope it was sick no way who'd you go with other fighters or no no uh devon haney
was there actually he
did it after me yeah the boxer and then um yeah uh dude that's crazy it's fun
like i can't believe
you've never been no i wanted and you only have to do seven more times i can go
by myself so there's
a place like a bad idea no i'm gonna do it you are so even okay bro this is me
yeah i'm already even
i've got a motorcycle riding lesson on saturday because and again my mom's a
nurse so she's already
told me nope nope oh because she's seen the worst yeah a lot of the organ
donors are come from
motorcyclists that's what i've heard you could do pink slips with strickland if
you guys know i'm good
oh does he ride oh he does ride motorcycles but somebody would get right fight
him yeah i'd rather
fight him yeah do what we do the man dance i want to do a man dance but um yeah
so for me skydiving
motorcycle riding i might get into that unless i get talked out of it but um
yeah something that just
gets me going that's why for me i know when i'm done with this game at least
every few months i need
to do something that'll make me feel like i'm about to die like something scary
something that makes me
go like this is this is happening this is legit this is real i could die in
this so why is
that so important you think to people i think it's for me i'm an adrenaline
junkie really yeah i'm an
adrenaline junkie i've accepted that about myself um and i think he's just i i
even alex spoke about
it after his islam fight where he said like you know just sitting around like
you you know you need
to do something you need to do something and i felt that a lot of fighters felt
that so for me that's
why i say giving me free time with what i have now can be a bad idea but i'm
glad that i'm older
now a little a lot wiser yeah there's a composer element to you that i think is
really interesting
because it's like and that's why i wonder about like yeah does he still love
like what does he
want to do with fighting just because there's a lot of options in life yeah and
sometimes creativity can
you know flow and just you know you can decide like yeah i've you know what
else do i want to
i can you know be uh an actor do i want to you know i'll act i've already like
turned down a few roles
a few high profile roles because i wanted to make sure i focus on fighting that's
the one thing i
wanted to focus on was fighting i don't ever want to get sidetracked and yeah
that's too much yeah
because i know what i can focus on and then if i do then things can get squirrely
so i'd rather not
but um yeah dude if you were like a fighter pilot or something yeah sick or if
you were like in a war
like in a war movie yeah yeah but i wouldn't say no 