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We are covering, because the fight just happened Saturday, the Israel Adesanya Alex Pereira
saga and it's truly wild, almost movie-like, anime-type storyline.
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Alright, so, yesterday, Saturday, I went to my grandpa's house.
We were going to order UFC 287 and watch the rematch between Israel Adesanya, Alex Pereira.
It's a really hyped up match and we were really excited to watch it.
And before I get into what happened in the fight, let's go back and let me tell you what
happened between these two men leading up to this fight.
So Israel Adesanya is currently right now, like, the top dog in the middleweight division
in the UFC.
185, he is just like the strike king.
He's not going to knock out anybody.
And he started his career as a kickboxer, accumulating 80 total fights, 75 wins, 29
by knockout, only 5 losses, 1 by knockout.
And so he's like a supreme striker.
Some say he might be the best striker in the UFC ever.
So of his 5 losses, 2 of them are to the same man and that man became his bitch rival.
His absolute fucking just the boogie man behind his shoulder.
So Alex Pereira, they ended up fighting, their first fight was in Glory of Heroes.
This was back in kickboxing in 2016.
He lost to Alex Pereira by unanimous decision.
And I guess they developed some kind of bad blood between them.
And so they were just kind of with shit talking to each other back and forth.
And then finally, they met up again in kickboxing.
They met up at Glory of Heroes 7 in 2017.
Adesanya lost again by knockout this time though.
Not only did he lose by knockout, Alex Pereira's son was in the audience and he went up to
the ring and he imitated Adesanya's knockout stance.
He just fell down like he got knocked out too.
So he mocked him right into his face.
So okay, those 2 losses, they fucking suck, but Adesanya is still considered the better
fighter.
80 wins and all that.
And around 2012, he had been transitioning to MMA, seeing how that was and how it would
work out for him.
He was mostly kickboxing, there's no ground game.
So he started kickboxing in 2012.
He was doing really well.
So well in fact that he got signed to the UFC in 2018.
And he just fucking tore up the middleweight division.
Everybody that was around tore him down, became a middleweight champion.
Now he did have a bit of a beef with John Jones, who was considered the greatest MMA
fighter of all time.
They were having this little animosity shit.
It's always shit talking on Twitter and stuff like that.
Social media.
And so at the time, Adesanya was undefeated in the MMA.
So he decided to go up to 205 from his 185 typical weight and challenge a 205er because
he wanted to see if he could handle John Jones.
He lost immediately.
I wouldn't say immediately, he lost the decision.
Got his ass beat basically.
He's 6'4 but he's like rail thin.
He's not meant to be at 205, he's meant to be at 185 when he was dominating.
So he stopped shit talking to John Jones.
And he didn't fight John Jones, he fought someone else at 205 and he was just too skinny.
The guy just wore him out.
So he goes back down to middleweight, he still has the title, and he's the king of the middleweight.
23 wins, 1 loss.
That loss to the light heavyweight.
And everything's going great.
Perfect.
Nothing, nothing can go wrong for this man.
He is just undefeated.
He's doing weird shit.
He's grabbing their booty holes during the fight, when on the ground game, he's doing
weird shit to them.
He's imitating sex positions as he's wrestling with them on the ground.
That's how easy the fights are for him.
Just doing weird shit to entertain himself.
And then in fucking 2020, he did an interview for Sporting News Australia, and they asked
him about his knockout loss to Alex Pereira.
And here's the quote to it, right?
This is what he actually said.
So he watches all my fights, and every time I fight, like clockwork, he tried to put something
out like, I beat this guy.
At the end of the day, no one knows who the fuck he is and who he's going to be, or no.
And he's going to be that guy when I'm world champion, when I'm a legend, he's going to
be in some pub talking shit, saying I beat that guy once, trying to get his dick stuck
by some crack whore or something.
And all the way in Brazil, Alex Pereira saw this interview, and it drove him fucking crazy.
Okay, so Alex Pereira was also a kickboxer, and he tried to transition to the MMA as well.
He did it like three years later after out of signing, like in 2015, but he didn't really
commit to it.
After that interview, he was like, well, let's game on then.
Because okay, so after the interview, he had a reignited fire to transition himself to
MMA completely, and he racked up some solid wins and got signed to the UFC in 2021.
Ripped apart three people.
You know what his record is right now?
It's at seven and two.
So he barely fought anybody.
And so his first fight in the UFC was, where is it?
May 6th, 2021.
Three fights later, three wins, he gets a title fight.
He's now six and one, because he lost his very first fight.
That's probably why at first he didn't want to transition, because the ground game, he
got choked out.
And you know, when you're a striker and the ground game gets introduced, it's like a whole
another level.
But he takes on everybody, and there's nobody else for Izzy to fight, because he's beaten
everyone else like three times.
So they give the title fight to him, plus Alex has the extra clout of knocking him out
in kickboxing, so everybody wants to see the fight.
So they fight November 12th, 2022.
Here he comes to boogie man.
He did all that because of the fucking interview.
He came to come after Israel Adesanya.
Alex Pryor was like, what do you say about crack horse?
Like he'd see that was his villain, or I think his fucking villain arc, like it just started.
So they fight.
What would you compare that to there?
Like, Barry Allen is Israel Adesanya, and freaking Alex Pryor is the reverse flash.
Like he hates this man with a passion I have not seen in real life.
I'll tell you a weird story after the fight that makes you realize he's the reverse flash
to Adesanya's Barry Allen.
So they fight, right?
And it's not fully one sided, but you can clearly tell that Israel Adesanya is whipping
his ass.
Even in the first round, he hits him hard with a right hand, almost like he buckles
him.
If it hadn't been for the bell, Alex would have lost.
He was like fucking trying to put his pants on.
He didn't have pants on, trying to fucking tie his tie.
He didn't have a tie.
That's how bad he was wrong.
So they go back to the corner and they fight all the way to, it's always five rounds, five
into rounds for a championship.
I guess around five, there's like two, three minutes left.
Israel's like just dominating and Alex looks tired and exhausted and out of fucking nowhere.
He gets like a boost in speed and energy and just fucking clobbers Adesanya and just starts
whipping his ass against the ropes, right?
Or against the cage.
And he's like, everyone's like, oh no, like I saw this live, this first fight.
I was like, oh my God.
None of my cousins wanted to see it because they thought Adesanya was going to, he's just
been winning and it's been predictable and no one wants to see it.
And I'm sitting there watching this and he fucking loses after winning the whole fight
at the very end.
And Alex is so evil.
You don't let people cheer and they're all happy, right?
Just fucking walks away stoically.
I am done now.
I did my goal to beat Adesanya.
That's all I wanted to do.
And he fucking retires and some shit.
So he beats him, takes his title.
He followed this man from kickboxing to the MMA because of some shit he said about him
in an interview and he fucking lost his damn mind.
When you think about a crack horse sucking you off, it's like, yeah, that's going to
piss you off a little bit.
But I mean, they weren't even in the same sport anymore.
It's like, if Adesanya wants to be like a fucking race car driver, that motherfucker
be right behind him the next day.
Like you said, it's Zolomon, Professor Zolomon.
He's something.
So Alex wins.
Adesanya is now 0-3 against this man.
He can't get the fuck away from him.
He lost twice in kickboxing and once in the MMA.
It's his script tonight.
And here's how fucking evil Alex, or Pereira is.
How comically, he's not a bully or anything.
He's not an asshole.
He's just like that villain that you want to root for.
After that fight, there was another title fight a couple months later.
It was Leon Edwards versus Kamaru Usman.
Adesanya is doing one of those reaction videos.
He's watching the fight.
There's a camera on him.
I guess it's sponsored by UFC because you get fired.
The government after you.
Dana White always sends the government.
If you even post a live video of UFC, you're fucking owing a million dollars.
So I guess he's allowed to air it.
So he's watching it and he's reacting to the fight.
Oh great fight.
All this stuff.
They're showing pictures and videos of his house.
And then fucking a day later, there's a video of Pereira watching Adesanya watching the
fucking fight.
So I can't stand this fucking man.
I'm like, are you fucking serious?
He's comically hating him.
You can't fucking stand him.
So he does.
He's going to do the same thing.
You're going to watch another man that you hate watch another fight.
You got the title.
What more do you want?
You took the title from him.
That's how you know he's a super villain.
Even after you beat him, he still wants to keep in his life and fuck him even more.
That's a true super villain.
Winning wasn't good.
He has to completely.
When they die, Adesanya is going to be in his grave and he's going to have his own grave
right next to him.
On top of him?
Yeah, right on top of his.
So now we come to Saturday and it's a rematch.
It was like we were like my cousin wanted to see this one this time.
So you guys should have been there the first time it was wild.
And like you can feel it like you like it's something about like a real like sport like
I love pro wrestling, right?
Yeah, but it's like a show.
Yeah, it's entertainment.
It's fun.
So let's be grandiose.
Yeah, I like that.
I like the theatrics and the storylines.
But when it's a real fight, when you don't know what's actually going to happen and it's
not scripted, you're like, oh boy, here we go.
There's not that heel to take all the blame.
Right.
Like there's not some weird storyline that's going to, you know, intercut that'll be like
resolved months later.
Like this is the moment right here.
So they go and they fight and that first round, I swear to you, like they didn't do anything.
They were like using their conquerors hockey on each other to see who was stronger.
They were they were filling each other out so much.
I was like, oh my God, like I was like it was almost like a pass out.
Oh my God, it's too much.
It's too powerful.
That's how much they were staring each other down.
So the second round starts and Adesanya gets a little bit, you know, loose and he just
starts kind of like he's not really one to keep like striking like he's kind of KO box
counters and like he lays back a little bit, but he was like taking it to Pereira and Pereira
was landing his fucking calf kicks that would have downed the ball.
And at one point it looked like he kicked so hard Adesanya that he backed up against
the cage.
It's like, oh shit.
And Pereira was like started trying to finish the fight, right.
And that's where he fucked up because Adesanya was faking.
So he was, Pereira was swinging wild, right?
And then between those wild swings, Adesanya landed a right hook that buckled him.
What a buckled an elephant.
Hit him once, it buckled him, the second one knocked him out completely.
Like I don't mean like he's down and the ref has to stop the fight, right?
He's like dead.
Like he was unconscious.
Like when the minute he hit him, when he hit the ground, he was already out.
Yeah.
He's just laying there like it looks like a body from Dragon Ball Z when they're all
fucking in the crater.
He's like, ah, you're just laying there.
And here's the thing.
This is the rivalry between them.
So Pereira likes to do this thing right before he gets to the cage.
He pantomimes having a bow and arrow.
So he'll like pull back on the bow string with the arrow at the cage and then fucking
let loose the arrow and have some big battle cry, right?
It's like, ah.
When Adesanya knocked him out, he did his fucking thing.
The arrows on his unconscious body, he's like, ah.
He takes three of them.
For the three losses he suffered.
He's going like, ah.
And then I think he pointed to the Pereira's son and then he pantomimes getting knocked
out like he got from like fucking 15, like eight years ago.
And I'm like, oh my God.
So right now they are three wins for Alex, one win for Adesanya.
They have done horrible shit to each other in and out of the ring.
How are you going to point to the man and say, I just knocked your fucking dad out like
this and he fucking topples over.
And I don't know where this is going to go.
Listen, that's the beginning of his villain arc.
Oh God.
They fist bump, right?
I swear to you, like time stopped.
Adesanya's like, you fist bump me, bro.
We had a good fight.
I was like, I'm going to kill you next time I see you.
He wasn't even there for the interview.
He fucking left.
Pereira was like, fuck this.
He goes back to his fucking lair and plans another fucking vengeance.
It's like the Joker in Batman.
It's like, well, you got me this time.
But it's never over until one of us is dead.
It's so awesome because it's real.
Like it's not bullshit.
It's not fake.
It's like, it's fucking, you can't write this in a movie.
It'd be too predictable.
Yeah.
But this is like, this is real life.
Like Pereira does not know he's so funny when he does this shit.
Cause he doesn't, he doesn't do it on, he's like, he does it out of true hatred.
Yeah.
Like he's not doing it for a show.
Like this man's just like, like he just does stuff because that's how much he hates Adesanya.
So I can't even, I either they have one more fight.
I don't know what the fuck's going to happen.
They're going to be, they're going to be in a nursing home together.
Just staring each other down till they fucking die.
Pushing each other down the wing.
So ladies and gentlemen, if you want a real, real life fucking super villain, superhero
showdown, watch the saga of Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira.
It is fucking wild.
You can't write this shit.
That's it.
The ultimate villain.
All because he said some dumb shit on an interview and fucking woke up a dragon.
That's a lesson to everybody.
Don't say shit on the internet because it might come back to bite you in the ass.
Yeah.
It might come back as a six foot four, 220 pound monster.
It's going to beat your ass three times.
Three times.
And I mean, you got him back, but I mean, is it over?
It ain't over till he leaves.
You got to force him to retire because Pereira is not going to leave until Adesanya leaves.
But the thing is, is even if you kick him out, he's going to be waiting for you to do
something else.
He's going to follow you.
He's like, I want to start, I want to be a professional wrestler now and WWE and Perez
like, I'm going to be also a professional wrestler in WWE.
That's about what it seems like.
The storyline is better than a WWE storyline.
Yeah.
You just never know what the fuck's going to happen.
So if anything happens, I'll let you guys know.
But that's so fast.
That's the timeline of the Staga.
I hope you guys enjoyed.
All right.
Anything else to add today?
Watch what you do.
You might make your own fucking supervillain.
You never know.
You can cut some guy off at work and that's it.
He's just a joker.
You come back to your house and there's fucking pumpkin bombs or some shit.
The Green Goblin is like, you thought you could cut me off at work?
No, no, my fucker.
We're right here now.
You never know.
All right.
Well, with that, I guess we are finished with this episode and we will see you guys next
time.
Bye guys.
Bye.