{"id":282417,"date":"2018-08-07T06:35:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=282417"},"modified":"2018-08-07T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:35:39","slug":"israel-adesanya-on-derek-brunson-the-ufc-made-him-call-me-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derek-brunson\/israel-adesanya-on-derek-brunson-the-ufc-made-him-call-me-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya on Derek Brunson: &#8220;The UFC made him call me out&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red hot UFC middleweight contender Israel Adesanya will return to the Octagon at UFC 230, which goes down on November 3 in New York City. His opponent in this next fight will be established contender Derek Brunson, who called him out<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derek-brunson\/derek-brunson-calls-out-the-last-pretender-israel-adesanya\/\"> repeatedly before the fight was made official.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it was Brunson who called Adesanya out, Adesanya doesn&#8217;t believe Brunson actually wanted the fight. In fact, he claims the UFC made Brunson call him out.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Ytubt0\">\u201cHe didn\u2019t call me out, the UFC made him call me out,&#8221; Adesanya told Luke Thomas on the MMA Hour (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/8\/7\/17657262\/israel-adesanya-on-derek-brunson-im-already-in-his-head-and-hes-in-his-feelings-like-drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). &#8220;He wouldn\u2019t even dare say my name. I feel like if he turned down a fight with me it would make him look bad. They forced him to take that fight because he wouldn\u2019t dare call me out by himself. He was trying to make it out like, \u2018Sign the contract\u2019, but I was like, \u2018Bro, I signed the contract two days ago, what are you on about?\u2019 This ain\u2019t the WWE and I keep up that image, but I think he\u2019s in over his head on this one. He\u2019s never been in a fight like this. I know he\u2019s fought\u00a0Anderson Silva, but he hasn\u2019t been in a fight with anyone like me, so I think it\u2019s a new territory for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that the fight is official, Adesanya says he&#8217;s excited to punish his rival. And he doesn&#8217;t expect that punishment to last more than a round.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-entry-content\">\n<p id=\"WNlplL\">\u201cI want to punish him, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to last a round because of the way he fights. Even at that press conference, if not for\u00a0Dana White, he would\u2019ve ran straight into what ever I wanted. I had already established my distance with hand on his chest and he\u2019s already running forward with his chin up. That already tells me how he\u2019s going to approach this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Israel Adesanya can topple Derek Brunson at UFC 230 this November?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/7\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red hot UFC middleweight contender Israel Adesanya will return to the Octagon at UFC 230, which goes down on November 3 in New York City. His opponent in this next fight will be established contender Derek Brunson, who called him out repeatedly before the fight was made official. 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