{"id":362483,"date":"2020-09-27T20:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=362483"},"modified":"2020-09-27T20:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:05:43","slug":"dana-white-weighs-in-on-paulo-costas-very-weird-performance-against-israel-adesanya-at-ufc-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-weighs-in-on-paulo-costas-very-weird-performance-against-israel-adesanya-at-ufc-253\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White weighs in on Paulo Costa’s “very weird” performance against Israel Adesanya at UFC 253"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC President Dana White has shared his thoughts on Paulo Costa’s performance against Israel Adesanya at last night’s UFC 253 event.<\/p>\n

Costa and Adesanya put their undefeated records on the line while squaring off for Israel’s middleweight word title in the headliner of yesterday’s pay-per-view event.<\/p>\n

It was a highly anticipated bout that many fans and analysts thought could produce ‘fight of the year’ honors.<\/p>\n

However, as predicted by ‘Stylebender’, he made last night’s fight with Paulo Costa (13-1 MMA) “look easy<\/a>” on route to a second round TKO<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n

\"Israel<\/p>\n

Adesanya battered Costa with low kicks in the opening round before ultimately dropping the Brazilian with a punch and putting him away with ground in pound in round two.<\/p>\n

While UFC President Dana White was not taking anything away from Israel Adesanya (20-0 MMA) at last night’s UFC 253 post-fight press conference, he did admit that he found Paulo Costa’s performance yesterday evening to be “very weird”.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much for \u2018Fight of the Year\u2019 \u2013 it was \u2018Domination of the Year,’\u201d White said at the post-fight news conference (via MMAJunkie<\/a>). \u201cIt was weird because if you look at every other fight that Costa has had, he comes out and goes after people like they owe him money.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he landed one jab in this fight. He didn\u2019t try to clinch on the fence, didn\u2019t try to put pressure, kept going back to the center of the octagon. It was very weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dana White continued:<\/p>\n

\u201c(Paulo Costa) never tried to get in the clinch. I think he only landed one jab (and) didn\u2019t really thrown any punches when (Adesanya) threw kicks. It was very weird. I just sat there going, \u2018Holy (explicit).\u2019 Obviously Adesanya went to work, pieced him piece by piece, made it look really easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of the comments from UFC President Dana White regarding Paulo Costa’s performance against Israel Adesanya at last night’s UFC 253 event? Share your thoughts in the comments section PENN Nation!<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPENN.com on September 27, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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