{"id":359603,"date":"2020-08-25T07:52:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=359603"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:52:44","slug":"israel-adesanya-confident-hes-already-under-paulo-costas-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-confident-hes-already-under-paulo-costas-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya confident he&#8217;s already under Paulo Costa&#8217;s skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes he&#8217;s already under the skin of his next challenger, Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya and Costa, who will square off in the main event of UFC 253 on September 26, have been exchanging ceaseless trash talk for months. Their most skirmish occurred during a joint appearance on ESPN&#8217;s SportsCenter, during which their mutual animus seemed to reach a new levels of intensity.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Muzsmvx1nyM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submission Radio<\/a> recently, Adesanya looked back on this tense encounter with Costa, sharing his belief that he&#8217;s already under his rival&#8217;s skin.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC 253: Israel Adesanya on Paulo Costa, Off-Camera Sportscenter Exchange, Beef Origins + More!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Muzsmvx1nyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"bmZXve\">\u201cI think I\u2019m under his skin already,\u201d Adesanya said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/8\/25\/21400451\/morning-report-israel-adesanya-on-paulo-costa-i-know-im-under-his-skin-already\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cNot really think, I know I\u2019m under his skin already. I kind of wish this was, what do you call it, BC, before corona. I wish it was BC, because that way it would be a press conference around different countries or different cities, and I could see him face to face and I could actually give him sh*t and really dig under his skin. But he\u2019s very easy to get under his skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given how tense Adesanya and Costa&#8217;s rivalry has become, it would not be shocking at all if the pair got physical in the days leading up to their fight. We&#8217;ve seen such things happen before.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-warns-paulo-costa-against-fight-week-altercation-ive-got-the-gang-with-me\/\">advises his Brazilian rivalry to behave himself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"htVunt\">\u201cHe\u2019s not going to have enough energy to do sh*t,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be sucked out, dry to the bone. He\u2019ll probably be pretty quiet, I\u2019m assuming. Or he\u2019ll say something and then shut up. But if we run into each other, I don\u2019t care if he wants to throw down, we can throw down. I have my whole crew with me. I\u2019ll have the gang gang with me.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Z5Awgm\">\u201cYou don\u2019t understand. I\u2019ve got the gang with me. So, if he wants to try something stupid with white glasses and f*cking cringe King whoever, bring it. My gang versus your gang. But I\u2019d rather whoop his ass in the cage. So, he better not try something stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Israel Adesanya is under Paulo Costa&#8217;s skin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes he&#8217;s already under the skin of his next challenger, Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa. Adesanya and Costa, who will square off in the main event of UFC 253 on September 26, have been exchanging ceaseless trash talk for months. Their most skirmish occurred during a joint appearance on ESPN&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":327621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39449,39400,39610],"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 confident he&#039;s already under Paulo Costa&#039;s skin | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes he&#039;s already under the skin of his next challenger, Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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