{"id":312417,"date":"2019-05-06T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=312417"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:10:42","slug":"israel-adesanya-fires-back-at-yoel-romero-compares-him-to-groot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-fires-back-at-yoel-romero-compares-him-to-groot\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya fires back at Yoel Romero, compares him to Groot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, UFC interim middleweight champ Israel Adesanya<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-criticizes-yoel-romero-who-never-makes-weight\/\"> took a shot<\/a> at Yoel Romero on Twitter, questioning the Cuban wrestler&#8217;s accomplishments and criticizing him for his previous weight cutting issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/stylebender\/status\/1123985854253416449\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;and tha fuck what. Y&#8217;ll act like Romero is the champ, never makes weight, never won a UFC belt. 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