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UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is eager for the opportunity to punish Paulo Costa for all of his trash talk.<\/p>\n

The two undefeated knockout artists are expected to fight<\/a> next, but the bout is not yet official. Whenever it winds up happening, Adesanya is excited, particularly after his undeniably slow win over Yoel Romero back in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that last fight, and dealing with what I had to deal with a statue, I\u2019m looking to actually to go in there and have fun this time,” Adesanya told MMA Fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is picture perfect,\u201d Adesanya added. \u201cThat\u2019s why I love it. The way he looks, this juiced up monkey, evil Drago looking motherf*cker. There\u2019s a skinny boy coming in there to whoop his ass, and when he whoops his ass, the sh*t I\u2019m going to do to him afterwards. Oh my god.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the sh*t he said leading up to this fight, he\u2019s going to pay for it. He\u2019s going to hear after the fight. Guarantee you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Costa has built a reputation as one of the most aggressive and powerful fighters on the UFC roster. Adesanya believes the Brazilian’s fighting style will play right into his own skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to be a guy that\u2019s going to press forward but he\u2019s going to feel me from the get go,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to feel me like no one else in the UFC has felt me yet. I think the only guy that maybe pressed me a little bit other than Kelvin [Gastelum] was the Italian [Marvin Vettori]. They\u2019re both juiced monkeys anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I look forward to this test. I know he\u2019s a way better version than that and he\u2019s not a southpaw. He\u2019s perfect. He\u2019s orthodox. I\u2019m kind of getting used to fighting southpaws these days. It\u2019s just something I do so I\u2019m looking forward to fighting a pure orthodox fighter that just does the sh*t I\u2019ve seen a f*cking million times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you think Israel Adesanya will come out on top when he fights Paulo Costa?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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