{"id":343287,"date":"2020-03-05T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=343287"},"modified":"2020-03-05T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:03:56","slug":"israel-adesanya-explains-why-hes-well-prepared-to-deal-with-superstardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-explains-why-hes-well-prepared-to-deal-with-superstardom\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya explains why he&#8217;s well-prepared to deal with superstardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is already a big star, but the expectation is that could become a downright superstar for the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Superstardom, of course, comes with some unique pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, we&#8217;ve seen countless athletes go off the rails due to the the side-effects of superstardom. Adesanya, however, is confident he won&#8217;t fall into that category.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Nm917s\">\u201cYou guys don\u2019t understand how much I planned this sh*t,\u201d Adesanya told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/3\/4\/21164321\/israel-adesanya-promises-he-wont-be-just-another-statistic-overwhelmed-by-superstardom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a> ahead of his UFC 248 title defense against Yoel Romero. \u201cI planned it, me and my coach from the jump. I\u2019m glad I wasn\u2019t 23 with all this money, all this fame.<\/p>\n<p id=\"NrEcFW\">\u201cNow I\u2019m 30. I\u2019m smart. I know exactly who I am and I\u2019m still learning about myself but I\u2019m not a young, dumb, full of c*m kid, who makes f*cked up decisions. I\u2019m smart about the way I move. I\u2019m smart about the way I conduct myself outside the Octagon, like who I associate myself with. I\u2019ve taken the right precautions to make sure I\u2019m just not another statistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Israel Adesanya is still a relatively new name in the UFC, the promotion&#8217;s president Dana White <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-discusses-star-power-of-israel-adesanya-weili-zhang\/\">seems to think<\/a> the Nigerian-born Kiwi has all the prerequisites to become a bona fide mega star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a good-looking kid, he speaks very well, he can dance,\u201d White said during a recent media scrum in Las Vegas. \u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of personality. But at the end of the day, the thing that matters is he can fight. This Romero fight makes him even more interesting. He could be sitting around waiting right now for [Paulo] Costa to get ready\u2014and that\u2019s the fight that should happen. He wants to fight Romero because he feels like his legacy won\u2019t be complete without this Romero fight, which is a very dangerous fight. Nobody wants to fight Romero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Israel Adesanya is destined to become a huge star for the UFC?<\/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 3\/5\/2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is already a big star, but the expectation is that could become a downright superstar for the promotion. Superstardom, of course, comes with some unique pressure. Over the years, we&#8217;ve seen countless athletes go off the rails due to the the side-effects of superstardom. 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