{"id":326957,"date":"2019-10-02T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326957"},"modified":"2019-10-02T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:52:16","slug":"israel-adesanya-interested-in-fighting-stipe-miocic-at-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-interested-in-fighting-stipe-miocic-at-heavyweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya interested in fighting Stipe Miocic at heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC interim middleweight champion Israel Adesanya says he&#8217;s interested in moving up in weight for a superfight against UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-rIITlZLN8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submission Radio<\/a> before UFC 243, Adesanya and his coach Eugene Bareman were asked about their expectations for &#8220;The Last Stylebender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Always confident, Adesanya and his coach said they&#8217;d be interesting in eventually taking on the UFC heavyweight champion Miocic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/10\/2\/20894768\/morning-report-israel-adesanya-definitely-interested-in-stipe-miocic-superfight-in-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">h\/t MMAMania.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC 243: Israel Adesanya on Stipe Miocic Superfight at Heavyweight, Robert Whittaker\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rIITlZLN8c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you gave me a choice and said, you\u2019ve got to give me a superfight, it\u2019s gotta be a light heavyweight\/heavyweight, then I\u2019m taking heavyweight,&#8221; Bareman said. &#8220;It\u2019s just different. There\u2019s different things you can take advantage of that heavyweights do that the light heavyweights don\u2019t give you. So like, if you want a show as big as you can get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya is so confident in his abilities that his coach says he would even be interested in skipping over light heavyweight entirely and making his way to heavyweight to take on Miocic.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zBYRMF\">\u201cIf they\u2019re talking about you doing a superfight, then skip light heavyweight and go straight to heavyweight,\u201d Bareman said. \u201cNo one\u2019s done that. I think Stipe. Stipe would be the one I\u2019d like to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"QnS71Z\">\u201cYeah, definitely,\u201d Adesanya agreed. \u201cI like the way he\u2019s thinking. But let\u2019s not get ahead of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-claims-hes-getting-paid-substantially-more-than-robert-whittaker\/\">Adesanya first has to get by Robert Whittaker this weekend in the main event of UFC 243<\/a>, and that&#8217;s no small task.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/betting-odds-released-for-stipe-miocic-vs-daniel-cormier-trilogy\/\">Miocic, meanwhile, is currently in talks for a trilogy fight against rival Daniel Cormier<\/a> and has other heavyweight contenders to deal with first. But if Adesanya gets his way, eventually he&#8217;ll move up to the UFC&#8217;s heaviest weight class and challenge the champion there. But for now, his sole focus is on Whittaker as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in seeing a superfight between Israel Adesanya and Stipe Miocic?<\/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 10\/2\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC interim middleweight champion Israel Adesanya says he&#8217;s interested in moving up in weight for a superfight against UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. Speaking to Submission Radio before UFC 243, Adesanya and his coach Eugene Bareman were asked about their expectations for &#8220;The Last Stylebender.&#8221; Always confident, Adesanya and his coach said they&#8217;d be interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":309484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39449,10253,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Israel Adesanya interested in fighting Stipe Miocic at heavyweight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC interim middleweight champion Israel Adesanya says he&#039;s interested in moving up to heavyweight for a superfight against champion Stipe Miocic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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