{"id":377903,"date":"2021-03-03T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=377903"},"modified":"2021-03-03T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T19:49:51","slug":"israel-adesanya-facing-the-hardest-fight-fight-of-his-career-at-ufc-259-says-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-facing-the-hardest-fight-fight-of-his-career-at-ufc-259-says-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya facing the &#8220;hardest fight&#8221; fight of his career at UFC 259, says head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya is days out from the toughest fight of his career, according to his head coach, Eugene Bareman.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya, the UFC middleweight champion, is slated to move up to light heavyweight to challenge Jan Blachowicz in a bid for a second-title at UFC 259 this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>While Adesanya will enter this potentially career-changing fight as the betting favorite, his coach isn&#8217;t underestimating the task at hand. In fact, Bareman considers Blachowicz the toughest test of Adesanya&#8217;s career so far\u2014quite a claim considering the middleweight champ has already fought the likes of Robert Whittaker, Paulo Costa, Yoel Romero, Kelvin Gastelum, Anderson Silva, Marvin Vettori and Derek Brunson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israel Adesanya&#039;s Coaches: Jan Blachowicz &quot;Makes The Hair on The Back of Our Neck Stand Up&quot; UFC 259\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9sCaXHNKKWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Israel\u2019s hardest fight by quite a bit,\u201d Bareman told\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sCaXHNKKWQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a>.<\/em> \u201cI think this is a jump up from any of his previous challengers. And for all intents and purposes within our camp, we are building ourselves as the underdogs. And we\u2019re doing that based on we\u2019re giving away this size and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jan-blachowicz-reveals-massive-weight-advantage-for-israel-adesanya-superfight-at-ufc-259\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=jan-blachowicz-reveals-massive-weight-advantage-for-israel-adesanya-superfight-at-ufc-259\">weight advantage<\/a> that we sometimes have in our favor. Now we\u2019re gonna give it away. So, it\u2019s just a very hard (fight).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re about to attempt here is, people don\u2019t understand, a very, very difficult endeavor and a very risky one, and one that makes for all us coaches and Israel, it makes the hairs on the back of our necks stand up. Because this is a true, true challenge \u2013 a hefty challenge. And it\u2019s a scary one, and it\u2019s one that gets you up early in the morning and wanting to attack it. And we\u2019ve had a great camp because it\u2019s just a highly motivating fight. And it\u2019s a highly motivating fight because it\u2019s such a dangerous fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bareman sees a number of risks for Israel Adesanya in this fight with Blachowicz. One of them, however, might come as a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>According to the famed City Kickboxing coach, Blachowicz&#8217;s confidence is one of the things that makes him most dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second thing that makes him very dangerous is his confidence,\u201d Bareman said. \u201cAnd his confidence doesn\u2019t get talked about a lot because it\u2019s not the braggadocios type of confidence that is a little bit more in line with Israel\u2019s type of confidence. It\u2019s just a quiet, unassuming confidence that I believe Jan has in his ability, and I believe Jan is extremely confident that Israel is not gonna have the tools to beat him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people, they understand that they have to be confident in a fight and they try to exude that, but they try too hard,&#8221; the Adesanya coach continued. &#8220;Their confidence, to be honest, with a lot of fighters, it\u2019s not really there. They\u2019re just hoping that confidence, through acting confident, they\u2019re hoping that this confidence will just arise out of nowhere. They don\u2019t truly have it. But that\u2019s not the case with Jan. I feel that he is genuinely, supremely confident that he can win this fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that to me, that\u2019s like a very dangerous opponent,&#8221; Bareman concluded. &#8220;That\u2019s an opponent that\u2019s got nothing to lose. That\u2019s an opponent that\u2019s going to be willing to come in there and take risks that the other previous opponents haven\u2019t been willing to do. So, two things: His physical advantages and then this quiet unassuming confidence that he kind of walks around with. I think those are the two dangerous things that kind of underline this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Israel Adesanya will do against Jan Blachowicz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya is days out from the toughest fight of his career, according to his head coach, Eugene Bareman. Adesanya, the UFC middleweight champion, is slated to move up to light heavyweight to challenge Jan Blachowicz in a bid for a second-title at UFC 259 this Saturday. 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