Israel Adesanya remembers a conversation with Dana White that proved to be prophetic. Prior to Adesanya’s title defense ...

The love Israel Adesanya has for anime ... I hit a flip, I hit the pose. It was gangster. If you know, you know. I play to my crowd." Rock Lee, the character Adesanya claimed to emulate, is ...

Israel Adesanya, former UFC middleweight champion ... An Izzy phrase like “I opened the fifth gate like Rock Lee” might as well read as ancient Babylonian to anyone born before 1985, but ...

On the latest episode of Hot Ones, MMA fighter Israel Adesanya broke down how anime ... Like when Gai Sensei, who is Rock Lee’s master, when he opened the 8th gate… I cried actually when ...

Adesanya has talked about and referred to the show on several occasions in his UFC career, including his iconic Rock Lee stance against ... number of non-MMA topics. Israel Adesanya asked ...

Israel Adesanya is going to take a long ... I know [when] I'm done with this I'm going to miss it,'" Adesanya said on "The Rock" podcast. "I'm trying to do as much as I can. But after this fight ...

The card features some huge fights involving some of Australia and New Zealand's best fighters, most notably Nigerian-born Kiwi Israel Adesanya, who will attempt to recapture the middleweight belt ...