Joe sits down with Israel Adesanya, a mixed martial artist competing in the Middleweight division of the UFC. He is the subject of the documentary "Stylebender," available now. www.ahifilms.nz/films/stylebender www.ufc.com/athlete/israel-adesanya Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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I was the most active champion in UFC history.
Alex Volkanovski is on his way to being the most active champ in UFC history.
He fights fucked up. Apparently his knee was really fucked up in the first Yuri ProHaska fight.
I ain't scared of shit.
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What's up? What's up? What's up? Good to see you my friend. What is the chain? What does that stand for?
Engage. This is my fightwear brand. Ash Bell Castro started this. He was one of the, I'll say this, he was one of the only guys who fuck with me before I really like blew up.
So when I was fighting in China and I lost to Alex, they stopped giving me fights. And I had, I think at the time I was the highest paid foreign fighter in China at the time.
Probably not now anymore, but then they stopped giving me fights. And I was like, look, I have seven more fights on my contract. Can I at least just get three?
I just need three because money was running out, you know, the money I had saved up. And then, yeah, I was down to my last one day, like $500.
And Eugene was holding pads for me because he was up and I just said, bro, I'm about to be broke, this and that, right, right, right.
And he said, don't worry, just leave it with me. I get home. I think I was on the toilet.
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