Midnight Mania! Israel adesanya to Anderson Silva: "I'm better than your clone"

Welcome, Midnight Maniacs!

Israel Adesanya today launched verbal bombs on Anderson Silva, revealing that he had initially hesitated to fight his hero, but now that the fight is over, he seeks to assume the mantle of grandeur de Silva – "I will take the torch the strength if I have to. "

He also stated that he had studied Silva throughout his career, claiming that he knew Silva better than the spider. Silva said that his ideal opponent would be a clone of himself. Adesanya says that it is this clone, but better.

Adesanya, "The Last Stylebender", is in many ways the spiritual successor of "The Spider". For years, Silva has been recognized as the best forward in mixed martial arts. He seemed almost untouchable in his 16-game losing streak, including 10 defending defenses as the middleweight champion. Adesanya, 75-5-1 in kick-boxing, brings a truly elitist experience to mixed martial arts, a record he has saved by going 4-0 in his first year with the company. His last win was a remarkable KO of Derek Brunson at UFC 230, which left him fighting for the title.

This will probably be the last opportunity to see these two scientists strike in a cage together. Anderson Silva is not who he was at the height of his powers. Does the old Jedi Master still have a few last laps in his sleeve? Or will the young lion be too much for him?

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Insomnia

Will this be the scene at UFC 234?

This interview with Jon Jones is really fascinating, a man who boldly proclaims his innocence to the evidence, while extolling Lance Armstrong as the example of the legitimacy of USADA. He is truly unique.

Jon Jones and his former training partner and opponent, Rashad Evans, exchanged words on Twitter over the weekend. Jones claims that any theory that he would normally be good juice, but was clean for the fight Ovince Saint-Preux makes no sense because he was bigger for this fight than before … but being fat is not what that all steroids do. Many DEPs, such as those taken by Lance Armstrong, help stamina, which caused some problems for Jones in this fight.

What's happening in Combate Americas?

Daniel Cormier really likes to train

Sometimes it's awesome

It was by far the funniest part of the weekend. These officials obviously had no idea that Tito would dig the grave after his victories.

This made most of us a little sad, even though we knew it was going to happen.

Chuck always celebrated as a champion if

This guy was living his best life and his human too.

Mickey Rourke just looks tough these days.

When a football player turns to the MMA:

Something is happening here. Which is not entirely clear.

There are worse fight gimes

Unfortunately, Jean Pascal did not succeed this weekend.

Eryk Anders studied the band

It's fun. Many of your favorite fighters looked weird like kids

Frank Shamrock fan art

Curtis Blaydes will keep the same energy against a loss as in his winning streak. He will surely be back.

Michael Bisping told Anderson Silva to recover from himself.

He won, but listen to a last clip of Tito Ortiz without any sense:

Kevin Holland also had a nice middle-class second-place win, his first UFC win after a fun start but lost to Thiago Santos.

Louis Smolka had a nice win at the UFC – he knows his motivation.

I did not know. "Add oil" is a kind of cool idiom.

There is a lot of fighting this weekend.

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Slips, Rips and KO Clips

In some Lethwei rule sets, they do not finish a fight at a knockout. Sometimes they give a fighter two minutes. It sounds like an excellent recipe for secondary concussions, but Lethwei is crazy like that.

The smile of advance

Kevin Holland is the fun-loving need of middleweight action fighter

Houston, Alex Morono, is proud of our local scene

When Overeem was UBEREEM

Super combination

One of my favorite finishing touches

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