{"id":362912,"date":"2020-09-29T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=362912"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:59:10","slug":"dan-hardy-criticizes-israel-adesanyas-crass-ufc-253-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dan-hardy-criticizes-israel-adesanyas-crass-ufc-253-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hardy criticizes Israel Adesanya&#8217;s &#8220;crass&#8221; UFC 253 celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Dan Hardy was not impressed by Israel Adesanya&#8217;s post-fight celebration at Saturday&#8217;s UFC 253 card.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya, the UFC middleweight champion, took on ferocious Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa last Saturday night. After winning via second-round TKO, he briefly pretended to hump his vanquished foe.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy, who is never shy to share his opinions, addressed Adesanya&#8217;s post-fight celebration at a scrum in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QYMNoj\">\u201cIt was crass, is the truth,\u201d Hardy said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/9\/29\/21493910\/dan-hardy-calls-israel-adesanyas-ufc-253-post-fight-celebration-crass-unnecessary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>) .\u201dIt was unnecessary and it was crass. It\u2019s not good for the sport to be seeing those things, but at the same time we see a lot of the superstars they stand out, they create headlines because of the thing that they do. [Adesanya] was [mockingly] urinating on the octagon in his UFC debut. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised by these things.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ltKXvg\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of animosity between these guys and we do act out when we\u2019re in these scenarios,&#8221; Hardy added. &#8220;When your adrenaline\u2019s up, you\u2019ve just won the fight, you\u2019ve got all this energy. How many times do you see people doing terrible dances after fights and stuff? I\u2019ve done it myself. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re saying in interviews because your adrenaline\u2019s going, you\u2019re just \u2018blllaaaaah!\u2019 It happens. Sometimes it\u2019s difficult to keep control of yourselves in those circumstances, but that\u2019s when you see someone like that and you kind of think, well, it wasn\u2019t in the spirit of martial arts and really that\u2019s what we want to be seeing, to represent the sport as a whole. But ultimately, these people have to be their individual selves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Hardy was a little put-off by Adesanya&#8217;s post-fight actions, you can only imagine how Costa himself felt when he saw footage of the incident. The Brazilian is now <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paulo-costa-says-something-happened-before-adesanya-fight-performance-was-impacted\/\">calling for a rematch<\/a> with Adesanya in hopes of getting his revenge.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this reaction from Dan Hardy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Dan Hardy was not impressed by Israel Adesanya&#8217;s post-fight celebration at Saturday&#8217;s UFC 253 card. Adesanya, the UFC middleweight champion, took on ferocious Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa last Saturday night. After winning via second-round TKO, he briefly pretended to hump his vanquished foe. 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