{"id":463847,"date":"2022-11-23T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=463847"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:59:39","slug":"ufc-middleweight-shares-advice-for-israel-adesanya-on-beating-alex-pereira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-middleweight-shares-advice-for-israel-adesanya-on-beating-alex-pereira\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC middleweight Chris Curtis shares advice for Israel Adesanya on how to beat Alex Pereira in rematch: \u201cAt that point you just have to poison him\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC middleweight Chris Curtis shared some advice for Israel Adesanya on how to beat Alex Pereira in their rematch.<\/p>\n

Pereira continues to haunt Adesanya’s career after the Brazilian took out the long-time champ by TKO at UFC 281<\/a>. The victory moved Pereira to 3-0 over Adesanya, 1-0 in MMA. The previous two wins came in Kickboxing in 2016 and 2017. In the first meeting, Pereira scored a unanimous decision, but in the second, he separated Adesanya from consciousness.<\/p>\n

Despite being the man Curtis was chasing, he can’t help but feel bad for the former champion. When speaking with Helen YT Sports<\/a>, Chris Curtis stated he wasn’t a fan of Adesanya, but having a nemesis in Pereira, who has your number across two disciplines, must be mentally draining.<\/p>\n

Chris Curtis sympathies with Israel Adesanya<\/h3>\n

\u201cI actually feel bad for Izzy like \u2018Bro, you have your own personal boogeyman\u2019 Like, how many times can you do everything right,\u201d Chris Curtis said. \u201cHe was winning the fight, I though it would\u2019ve been four rounds to one\u2026he was like two minutes from defending his title, and Pereira does it again. Like you got your own personal f*king boogeyman. That is miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curtis put himself in Adesanya’s shoes and jokingly added he would have done more than most to get a result over the newly crowned champion.<\/p>\n

\u201c[If] you can\u2019t beat him in one-on-one combat, we gotta do a gladiator thing and like stab him or poison him before the fight\u2026If one dude kept pounding me down my entire career and I\u2019m gonna come find you at home,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cI\u2019m settling this with knives I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pereira’s third victory over Adesanya didn’t come without some controversy. Many believed the stoppage was premature<\/a>. However, Adesanya said he was content with the stoppage, with his coach, Eugene Bareman confessing it was early in his eyes.<\/p>\n

Curtis sides with Adesanya and does feel Mark Goddard should have considered the importance of the fight when making a split-second decision.<\/p>\n

Curtis sides on the controversial stoppage<\/h3>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t like the stoppage man,\u201d Curtis admitted. \u201cI understand [the ref was] protecting the fighter but\u2026it\u2019s the last round of a five-round title fight, the champion [was] arguably winning the fight, like, yeah we\u2019re worried about the damage, people go to sleep to on every fight card, let him get knocked the f*ck out.\u201d<\/p>\n