Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya needed to compose himself along with his mom after an emotional UFC 305 press convention.
Adesanya will face UFC middleweight titleholder Dricus du Plessis within the UFC 305 essential occasion this Saturday in Perth, Australia. He returns to the Octagon for the primary time since a surprising loss to Sean Strickland at UFC 293 final yr.
Adesanya and du Plessis have had a heated buildup to their highly-anticipated title conflict this weekend. The edges began barking at one another final yr after du Plessis claimed he was the UFC’s first African champion.
This wrongly rubbed Adesanya, Kamaru Usman, and different big-name African-born fighters. Adesanya and du Plessis have since created some of the heated buildups in current UFC historical past.
Simply hours away from their combat, Adesanya and du Plessis traded barbs in the course of the UFC 305 pre-fight press convention. Issues obtained so heated in the course of the exchanges {that a} visibly emotional Adesanya appeared to take a few of du Plessis’s jabs to coronary heart.
Earlier than returning to the stage for his press convention faceoff with du Plessis, Adesanya took a second along with his mom and warranted her that his upcoming opponent would pay the worth.
