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Israel Adesanya

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“After the Whittaker fight, the first one, I remember after that whole fight, the after party on the way back to New Zealand, I remember at the airport, I put out a story just saying, look, if you see me at the airport or traveling, just approach me lightly because if you come at me with all this energy, I'll walk away. I put that on my story just because I was like, I'll walk away because my capacity to deal with high energy right now was just mmm.”
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“Well, this is the thing. No one, I feel like it's learnt behavior as well. This is the one thing because everyone thinks they're your biggest fan. It's the same rhetoric. I know the lines they're going to say each time, but like it's learned behavior. I don't know. I think it's maybe from TV or Disney or whatever. People feel like when you meet someone, you're really, you're a fan of, you yell at them to let them know how much of a fan you are and you show them by just shaking and I honestly think it's learnt behavior because Sometimes I'm like, there's no need for all this. I'll be at like at three. I'm chilling at a two or three at a park. And so fucking way. Oh my God. I'm just like.”
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“I was a bit sad, but I understood. I understood because they were in the middle of a conversation actively talking. I should have had the etiquette to realize just they're talking. Leave them alone.”
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“Oh, yeah, bro. I hate to be that guy, but I'm like, well, you're being that guy. You hate to be that guy, but you're doing it right now. And it's like I'll be having lunch with you. And within. Minutes, we'll get stopped probably like six times with you. I'm probably if we're at lunch in London, we'll probably not even have a chance to talk. But they don't care. They just want to get their picture and put on their fucking social media with fucking 20 followers so I can look at the champ on like whatever. I'm just like, no, let me have my moment. And I've learned this. Okay, my experience with this, and I always bring this up whenever I see him on TV or hairs, raps, most deaf. I see most deaf in common in Auckland Airport. And they have in a conversation by the back carousel. And I want to fight in Adelaide, and I'm coming back home. I have my trophy. And I was like, yo, I want to get a picture. And I pull up to him. I'm like, hey, what's up, Monster? Big fat. He's like, hey, brother, just no photos today, man. I was just like, man, Olga, no worries. Easy. I remember.”
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“That's why if I'm having a dinner with my family, if I'm on a date, if I'm in the intimate moment, people start to like. I don't want to be that guy. But I'm like, but you're being that guy. You're being that guy. You say you don't want to be that guy, but you're being that guy.”
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“People, especially like this is not supposed to happen. The world I'm being under a microscope and everyone watching what I'm doing. So certain things I just have, I feel like I just have to really protect because I don't want the world to take that away from me because they just take my cat died maybe two years ago. The morning she died, right? I think I was feeling gas up in the afternoon and some guy came up while I'm feeling gas and goes brother, bro, can you talk to my cousin real quick? He's a big fan. I'm just like, man, bro, my cat just died this morning, man. I'm not known in the mood. And I remember the look on his face. It's like, all good, all good, whatever. Give me the phone. I said, hello. And this was as I'm filling gas actively. And I was like, hold up. Bro, no phones. Like, what if I spontaneously? But they don't care. They just want to have their moment. They want to take. They want to take. They want to take.”
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“Exactly, my guy. So, a lot of people don't realize that about myself when it's time to go in my crab hole. I just find my way. I'm like, right, leave me on. I love my friends because my close friends, we can do this for hours and just yawn and talk shit and make fun of each other and just show each other love. But then we can spend the next three hours just sitting in the same room, being on my phone or watching TV or listening to a podcast and not say a damn word and just enjoy each other's space. I love that. I love that feeling. But yeah, I'm a person who feels a lot. I like to protect that. I like to keep”
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“I'm a human being and I have feelings, you know. So I'm an empath as well. Yeah, I'm born on the cusp. So I'm like, I say I'm a cancer Leo, I'm hard and soft, like a semi-chubb.”
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“Apparently, I'm gay as well because of my nails and my pearl necklaces and all that stuff. So I'm just like. Let him talk. It's fun.”
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“Look, this world, one thing I've seen is they'll build you up, right? They'll build you up and then tear you down like a free Brittany, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, all these people I've seen that happen so many times. So, and also this world just takes. They just take, take. When I have kids, you'll never know the world will never know their face. I'm even contemplating if I still give them my last name because I don't want to put that pressure on them. Because even my siblings, sometimes they hate it as well where it's like, you know, oh, this is Davis. This is Israel's brother. This is Deborah. This is Israel's sister or stopping the sister. And they're like, oh, my name's Deborah, you know? Like, I don't want to put that on them. Same thing with my relationships. That's certain things I protect because I value them, so I keep them safe because the world will just try and take, take, take. And that's one thing everyone wants to know.”
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“Don't give a fuck I'm like, I fight people for money. That's what I do for a job. I beat people up for shitload of money. If you really want to take my political views on my moral views into consideration and say this and that and that's on you. I never said I'm a saint. I'm not a fucking politician. I don't, everyone, I don't feel like I have anything to hide. Like I said, I put everything, not everything, but like I put things out there that I probably shouldn't sometimes. But that's my way of being vulnerable to the point where I'm just like, this is me. Take it or leave it. But I feel like me doing that attracts the people who can relate, who can resonate. And I feel like they gravitate towards me.”
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“And I'm still waiting. They've tried me. They keep trying me. I'm just like, look, it's hard to cancel someone when they actually.”
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“I'm normal, I'm human being. And so I'm just like, that's my power is being vulnerable with my faults. You know, I'm not going to say I've done this, I've done that, but I just know I'm not, I'm not perfect. I'm a human being. I make mistakes and it's okay to make mistakes. The difference between me and some people is that I actually learn from my mistakes and I don't make the same mistakes over and over and over again in the public eye like some people. That's one. That's a classic example, obviously. The same fucking mistake.”
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“He's not They can't fuck with me because you know why there's a reason I've stayed off TMZ. I've never been on TMZ knocking wood. Never will for the wrong reasons. But I mean one day if something happens I just happen to be on TMZ for the wrong reason I'd be like whoopsie my bad I made a mistake but guess what I never told you I was perfect”
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“I know myself. I am a fucking demon sometimes. Trust. There's no good people. There's no bad people. People are just capable of great good and great evil. You know what I mean? But I just try and do more good than bad. But I have done some bad things in my time because I'm a human being. You know what I mean? So when people try and I guess put you in a box like, oh, he's a good girl, or he's a this. I'm like, there's no good people, there's no bad people, we're just people, and we're capable of great, good, and great evil. That's it.”
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“And it's like, why are we pretending we don't speak the way we do because of what? Because we're on TV. It's just, it boggles me sometimes. And I started like, what game are we playing? It's like, it's so stupid as adults. We're adults. We talk. This is language. We curse. We swear. But then when a TV comes out, oh, you want to be proper and you must be, you know, prestigious and speak. I'm like, nah, fuck all that shit, man. Let's speak the way we normally speak and be authentically ourselves. So that's like, Charlemagne says something. He says, speak your truth so no one can use your truth against you. Amen, bro. Like, trust me, I'm able to”
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“Stupid for me. And two, like I did this morning show one time, and I was talking, I said, blah, blah, blah, something asked, ah, that's a swear jaw. Swear job, what the fuck is this high school? I'm like, I'm an adult. I know you. I've seen you at fucking Ponsville Social Club drunk up your face. I know what you do in the bathroom. You know what I mean? So I'm just like, don't try to act like you're holier than thou now and like, oh, you put that in the swear jar. It's like this whipper, what game are we playing? Playing this stupid game that's like, oh, we can say these words, but you can't say these words. Like, you're an adult. When the cameras go off, I know how to fuck you speak. I know how you talk, you know?”
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“This whole fucking culture of stupid language games, you can say that word, and that's a bad word and this and that. And then I can't remember how I flamed him, but I flamed him. There was a bit of an audience as well. I flamed them badly. He never released the interview, obviously, because he had no leg to stand on. But he thought he had me, but he didn't realize he fucked with the wrong one. And I just turned, I was like, I think. Me doing my job. Does more damage to the kid for watching than me wearing a shirt that says good cunt. You know what I mean? And I hate that the fact that we're playing these because”
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“Oh, so what does that kid look up to me for? It's like, well, for being in your position as a what? A fighter, right? Yes. So that kid just saw what I did about a few hours ago when I beat the fuck out of that guy. And he saw where I was taking me. He's just like, no, no, no. I was like, stay there. And I could see him trying to find a way out of that. So that kid just watched me beat this fucking guy to a pulp in his own blood as he spat blood at me and I beat him in his own blood till the referee dragged me off him. Yeah. Oh, really? So what do you think is doing more damage to the kid is me doing that and the kid looking up to me for that or me wearing a shirt that just says good cunt.”
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“Fuck them kids. Fuck all that shit. You know what I mean? I'm like, bro, people try to say all you know my kid looks up to you. I'm like, raise your own damn kids. Raise your own damn kids, you know? Like one thing, after my UFC debut, some guy, so at my after party, I had this shirt, right? Said, good cunt from engaged classic soulless, still big seller. And some guy straight up, it was the beautiful shirt. And also it was like a play on the famous designer brand, GC. Like, yeah, so we sold those. We still sell them heaps. But this guy came up to me and he was interviewing me at my own after party, and I could see he was trying to set me up. So then he's like, oh, so what do you, yeah, so what do you think a t-shirt like that sends? What kind of message is it send? I'm like, what do you mean? And he thought he fucked with her. He fucked with the wrong one this time. So he's like, what do you think that kind of shirt sends as a message to say, for example, a young kid who looks up to you? And I was just like, oh, really?”
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“This is where trap that guy like Jones just fell into because he was always the pastor's son. He was always like, you know, after a fight, I want to thank Jesus. You know, I want to be sponsored by Nike and, you know, all kids, I want to be someone kids look up to. I want to be a good role model, rada, rada, rah.”
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“Agenda behind it that we have no fucking idea about. I'm not going to act like I fucking know, but I just know this doesn't make sense to me. It does not make sense to me that I don't want to get too deep into all that shit. But literally this makes sense to me. The common sense was just not commoning. It was not common enough. So I was just, okay, this is, there's something going on here that I'm not fucking with, but I'm going to live my life the best way I know how. In the lines of what I can, allegedly.”
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“But I found ways. I just felt like the rules that apply to me because, I mean, in the beginning of the pandemic, trust me, I was scared. I didn't know what this fucking shit was. It felt like the purge. But then eventually, after all the bullshit, after a year and two years, I kind of like, okay, like everyone else, we just knew what was going on. There's some kind of other...”
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“In New Zealand, we used to have an update with this whole COVID shit on Mondays, I believe, around 5 p.m. I never once was like on a Monday like, ooh. Oh, fuck. Okay. But everyone knows, it's just like, oh, have they been the announcement yet? I'm just like, I get it new secondhand. What do they say? Oh, cool. Because I just, the rules don't apply to me. That's how I feel. And that's my ego talking. I'm not talking the rules of the law. I'm just talking like. No matter what they say I can do or I can't do. Like example war lockdown for three months last year in August. During that time, those things weren't allowed to do, like train I trained. Allegedly”
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“I don't fuck with politics. So, you know, Nigerian parents, my dad used to have CNN or BBC on the telly all the fucking time, constantly, just on repeat. But I just don't watch the news. I literally don't listen to it.”
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“And this is the thing with division as well. I've said they divide and conquer. That's the easiest way to break a nation or a group of people is just divide them and separate them, make them think that one is on the other side and this and that and make them fight amongst each other. That's how they've done it for years, for centuries. The oligarchs or the Illuminati or whatever you want to call it, they divide and conquer. This is how they get it done. So why do you think that they're not doing that right now in so many different ways? So many different ways.”
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“One decision. We want to know what box to put you in. It's like, why? So I like to with people and just like maybe I am, maybe I'm not. We'll find out. But then they're just like, no, but we need to know.”
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“And if people, if someone felt like they go dupe, they kind of want to get people into their tribe so that they can, you know, we've got you on our side. I'm like, I don't care what side you're on. I literally don't care whether you want to do this or you do that. All I care about is how you treat people, how you treat the people around you, the people you interact with. But nah, this day and age, like I find people asking me the strangest questions, and then they'll base their how they treat you based on that response. Like, are you vaccinated? That was one of the weirdest ones. I was like, why do you care? What does that do for you? Well, we need”
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“Oh, you're exactly tribe. Yeah. So it's like mob mentality. Even with, I remember when Andrew Schultz said recently, he's like, on one of his podcasts, he said he regrets getting the vaccine. And yeah, he said he wishes he never did. What's like people... I find this really strange that people like people don't want to get duped. People don't want to get due. People hate feeling like they”
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“I know what that is, but then somehow the smartest people I know sometimes just have the weirdest way of looking at the world. And I try not to hold it against them because I'm like, I know you're a smart person, but maybe the way you were brought up or your own childhood trauma again can kind of skew the way you look at the world. So I never hold it against them. I just kind of like All personal, it's not about me. It's about them. So just observe. But yeah, it's weird then. Very weird, very strange.”
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“I don't have to agree with his guest They just chop you in a box right away. But that's the thing. I'm like, this whole fucking situation we have with COVID now and what we're doing in society as strange times, man, because people are just, the human animals weird. It's a weird fucking speeches because individually we can be smart. But when we're in droves, just dummies, just a bunch of dummies and droves sometimes. I'm like, how can a smart person have this idea about this? When you know what's really happening, it's like if you really step away from it, like you said, just remove yourself in situation and look at it from a third person as an observer. Just watch it and just be like.”
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“I follow certain people just because I'm like, they make me feel a certain way, but I'm like, they're not wrong, though. And it's just different ideas. It's not wrong or right. So different ideologies. But I'm just like, you know what? I'll tap into that just so I can at least be aware of the other side, what they're thinking.”
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“Just to like, because I don't want to be surrounded by yes men or people like, oh, I only follow this because this tells me what I need to know, what I want to hear. Exactly.”
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“Exactly. We're only supposed to have a certain amount of people we associate with as the human animal. But then, like, social media and the connectivity we have now has just made us connected to the whole world, made the world a small place that you can just even confirmation bias. That's another thing we have to be careful about. And I make sure, because I follow certain people on Instagram that I don't necessarily agree with.”
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“So, yeah, they're the ones who have the big voice now and the doers are just doing. So people start to eventually believe the complainers. And so where paradox shift now in this day and age? So like I said, you have to be able to sift through the noise. And I have my ways of doing that.”
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“I even cringe thinking about it because I'm just like, I would hate, I would have hate to be in that position, man, especially like to be with your family, like your family doing that to you. That's crazy. But yeah, fame. No one's supposed to be famous. It's not a thing, especially with all these gadgets now. We're not supposed to have these. We're not supposed to have people who don't do shit with their lives have such a loud voice in droves being able to tell us because back in the day, I saw this quote on Instagram. Yes, maybe last week or this week about like, you know, back in the day before social media, you only heard from doers. You heard from people who were actually doing shit. You rarely heard from complainers, but now complainers are the ones you hear from the most because they finally have a voice and they can be anonymous and hide behind their anonymity.”
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“That was one of my like, I was getting anxiety watching the first half of that. There was a bit she was driving and then she ran through these red lights and the guys were like, look at her, she's crazy. I'm like, yeah, because you're fucking chasing her You're chasing her. She's trying to get the fuck away from you, and you're calling her crazy Man, that whole thing, just the way she, when she was trying to buy gas and everyone was just on her.”
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“Like that. I like that perspective. There's no book on this shit. So I've always said, fuck the fame, but I love the perks.”
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“Exactly. I don't care. I forget who I am all the time. But the fact that she thought like it would actually hurt my feelings for her not know who I'm like, who the fuck are you?”
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“But the fact that she wanted to let me know that she didn't know who I was, like it was going to hurt my feelings. And I was just like, baby, I don't know who you are. And I remember her face was like.”
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“And there was a table of like four dudes and two chicks. And I could tell one of the chicks was like the center of attention. So when I came in, the guys were just like, no fucking way stopping. What the fuck? They were just showing me love and all that. And I could see, I could feel her energy and I could see her from the corner of my eye just like. And then she came up, she was like, excuse me, but who you? I was like, don't worry, baby. It's all good. I was talking to one of the guys taking photos. And then she came back again trying to talk to me. I was just like, and then she can't force me this time. It's like, excuse me, why is everyone giving a fuck? Who are you? I don't know who you are. And I was like, baby, I don't know who you are. I just fight her off. I was like, I don't care, you don't know who I am.”
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“They want to take the first the worst one I remember was I've used this story a few times but I was at this bar in Auckland”
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“Exactly. Fake famous guy. And then the camera guy asked him, so how do you know David? And someone would be like, I heard his last album. It was pretty good. I heard a single on the radio or I saw him in Spider. People would just lie through their teeth, you know, and just say whatever they think he is. And it's like, you know, you obviously don't know the guy. You can just say, oh, I don't know who he is. And I've had that. So when that day, I'm sorry, that week in New York, I was doing a shoot for my brand Engage in Times Square. I had Jeff and like three other cameras on me. So there's like four cameras on me. And he sees people standing to gather around like, oh, who's this guy? And then some people recognize me. They start taking pictures. And then before I knew it, I start finding people who didn't even know me.”
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“To the media and finding their way to get their name in the spotlight because they are addicted to that. It's addicting. Trust me, I've been there. I've felt it. It's addicting attention. That's the social currency now. Attention, even at the highest level, fame, clout. These are tangible things. I've seen it. I've seen one of those people, man. Funny story. I saw this when I was in New York. I fought Brunson, right? That week I saw this YouTube video of a guy in Times Square in New York. He was there regular easy, didn't, you know, just walking around, didn't get bothered. And then he went there at nighttime, hired an entourage, hired camera people, undressed the pot. That clip. And people were like starting to like, who's this guy?”
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“I'm not attached to it to the sense that it's my identity, that this is all I am. So when it's all said and done and I'm, you know, I'm not the UFC Middleware champ anymore, I'm retired. I'm not going to be like, who am I? I know who I am without the belt. So that's the blessing in that. But a lot of people don't, a lot of people like, you see them walk around with the belt constantly and they just stay attached to that. Like, that's who they are. So when it's gone and it's said and done, that's why a lot of people who are supposed to be retired still end up talking.”
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“A little bit, but I'm ready for it in the sense that I'm not attached to this. I've already, I know I'm more than fighting, fighting, there's more to life than fighting. So I'm not like one of these guys who is attached. Like, you know, I never know where my belt is right now, to be honest. I really don't know. I'm not attached to it. I know I'm the fucking champ.”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But yeah, for me, I just feel like just being able to own your masculinity in a way that's not toxic, man, I'm not talking toxic masculinity, but just being able to just like. Work out in a place where you can be a man and just like throw weights around or like I love rolling with my boys like there's some I love lifting even during lockdown I was lifting a lot but there's something to be said when I have a guy like my teammate Brad Riddell or Carlos or Blood Diamond you know on my back trying to choke me out and then you know three two one go and I have to fight the choke something primal about that that just activates this part of my brain that I'm just like”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Couple of times a year, I need to do something that's going to feel like I'm about to die. I feel like I just need to do something that's just going to just, I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie. So I need to do something that's going to just like tame the beast. If not, I just feel like it's going to seep in other ways I wouldn't want it to in my life, you know? So I need to find a way to tame the beast. And I feel like this does. Martial arts, what was a quote make savage of the body and civilize the mind something like that. You know what I mean? Especially as young men, honestly, they want to like, you know, sometimes people want to kind of like discredit athleticism or, you know, working out or you're just a jalk or this and that. I hate jokes. I was never a jalk in school. So I have a really, really special place in my heart for them.”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like we were talking about earlier about young men, kids, especially when they become adolescents and they don't know what to do with all this new hormones. They're just filling up their bodies and stuff like that. They need an outlet. Even for me, I've said after this game's done, after I'm done with this fighting shit, when I have a family, at least.”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To be honest, once I have my fight, so then I fought in June, I believe, that year. Finally, after six or seven months, because I had to take time off after the surgery. Fighting, and then I realized my purpose again, I know what I want to do. So I didn't fight for a long time because it was, yeah, it was just really dark times, not, you know, something you're passionate about, something what I moved to Auckland to do and it got taken away from me. So then I wasn't able to do what I wanted to do. And then once I got it back, it just kind of reinstated to myself like, I know who the fuck I am. So, yeah.”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT