The much-vaunted comeback of Adesanya was stopped in it's tracks over in Oz on the weekend when Dricus finished Adesanya in the 4th round by submission.
I know that most of you don't watch MMA but I'm gonna post a series of videos below to catch you up on the back story of the situation between these two prior to the fight...
Dricus said this a few fights before becoming champ...
And indeed, Adesanya attempted to turn this around into a race thing. He claimed that Dricus was a "cracker" and that he wasn't really African. Through Dricus' victory over Whitaker, he'd earned himself a title shot.
Israel Adesanya was at the fight and came into the ring afterwards...saying this...to Dricus...
Dricus ended up winning the title fight against Stickland...making him the new champ since Strickland had taken the belt off of Israel Adesanya.
Adesanaya now gets to fight Dricus but Dricus isn't the challenger, he's the new champ...
After a year out to refresh and watch Anime...The fight between Israel and Dricus is set.
In the interim, Adesanya had been all over the place turning the narrative into one of race...there are countless clips but here's one...
Dricus, in fact, never brought race into it...he was simply stating that he is the only Champ that is taking the belt back to Africa, where he resides. Obviously, the implication being that it will inspire MMA in Africa. A point he made over and over again. Nevertheless, Adesanya's view was...
As it turns out, Dricus is an uber troll. In the lead up to his title fight with Strickland, Strickland ended up literally crying due to Dricus hurting his "feelings".
And Israel Adesanya is now the second UFC champ that Dricus has made actually cry, before beating him.
Adesanya was playing the race card , and that Dricus was somehow a privileged white guy. And all it took from Dricus was to ask Adesanaya how many servants Adesanya's family had in Africa before moving to NZ (or something along those lines)...basically pointing out Adasayna's hypocrisy. Here is what happened...
And then this is how the fight ended this past weekend.
So sweet...