{"id":332099,"date":"2019-11-14T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=332099"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:51:08","slug":"israel-adesanya-is-not-interested-in-moving-to-boxing-and-his-reasoning-is-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-is-not-interested-in-moving-to-boxing-and-his-reasoning-is-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya is not interested in moving to boxing, and his reasoning is sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years, we&#8217;ve heard countless mixed martial artists call for fights with the world&#8217;s top boxers. This very week, Jorge Masvidal angled for a fight with Canelo Alvarez and Stipe Miocic expressed interest in a fight with Tyson Fury. Don&#8217;t expect UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya to follow in their footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya shared his disinterest in a move to boxing on a recent episode of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AnIG6xLorrk\"> Ebro in the Morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"HFMLT3\">\u201cThis is where I\u2019m going to end my career,\u201d Adesanya said of the UFC (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/featured-posts\/israel-adesanya-no-boxing\/?fbclid=IwAR0iaTz451IUPt66YzBlGjKGgL6v06y5dfKpiYHiiUJ8Z9pgQJrNIKHKhKk\">The Mac Life<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p id=\"vO1kFn\">\u201cIt\u2019s silly. Why would I come to the proving ground of all fighting \u2014 the UFC \u2014 and then afterward, fight a guy and take away like 80 percent of my weapons,\u201d Adesanya continued. \u201cI just want to kick people. I want to strangle someone. I can\u2019t do that in boxing. I don\u2019t want to get into the clinch and then okay, break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appeal of MMA, Adesanya continued, is that he can use all of the tools at his disposal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"OUh18G\">\u201cSame thing with kickboxing, same thing with jiu-jitsu, same thing with judo, same thing with wrestling, they\u2019re all limited styles of fighting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>From there, Adesanya shared what he believes is the key difference between a boxer and a fighter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone throws that greatest fighter, pound-for-pound, is Canelo [Alvarez],&#8221; he said said. &#8220;He\u2019s the pound-for-pound \u2014 maybe \u2014greatest boxer right now. Not fighter. You have to test yourself against another style.<\/p>\n<p id=\"TdBb2x\">\u201cPeople say, \u2018oh, after UFC, you can go to boxing and have one super fight maybe with Canelo and make a hundred million\u2019. I\u2019m like, I can do that in the UFC. I might be the first fighter to do that in the UFC,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Israel Adesanya?<\/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 11\/14\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years, we&#8217;ve heard countless mixed martial artists call for fights with the world&#8217;s top boxers. This very week, Jorge Masvidal angled for a fight with Canelo Alvarez and Stipe Miocic expressed interest in a fight with Tyson Fury. Don&#8217;t expect UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya to follow in their footsteps. 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