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UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya recently sat down with boxing legend Mike Tyson and co-host Sebastian Joseph-Day for a podcast. It was evident that the global superstar truly admires Tyson. Moreover, Adesanya is also known to be a huge Muhammad Ali fan.

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Ali and Tyson are both legends of their time and beyond, and this is not the first time the Middleweight champion has mentioned them. ‘The Last Style Bender’ took both his inspirations’ names in one sentence, sharing his amusing imagination. Adesanya described how these two magnificent athletes would run their Twitter accounts.

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  Muhammad Ali,Tyson, and the Twitter

Adesanya chimed in his thoughts on what would happen if Twitter was present during Tyson‘s active days. “Imagine their time if they had twitter. If you guys had Twitter properly while you were fighting, you were active, you would be a menace on Twitter. You would go banned off Twitter, like six times,” said Adesanya.

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While mentioning Ali on Twitter Adesanya said, “Even Ali, If Ali had Twitter, imagine the shit he would be saying. Because he was just live writing things to your face.” Before this, the New Zealander shared a video on Twitter, which highlighted Ali’s never holding back demeanor.

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Watch: Israel Adesanya responds to Khamzat Chimaev call-out

UFC superstars often receive call-outs from middle prospects. But one fighter who really pulls attention is Khamzat Chimaev. The fighter is now undefeated and has shown his dominance inside the octagon. Israel Adesanya, recently in a podcast, spoke about what he feels about fighting Khamzat Chimaev in the future.

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“I don’t have to take him seriously till I have to take him seriously. And that’s a guy that, definitely, I’d like to fight; if he does what he says, he wants to do. Because guess what? He’ll bring in a lot of eyes,” replied Adesanya.

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Although Adesanya appreciated Chimaev for his win against Li Jingliang. “There was something he did in that fight. I won’t give it away, but I was like, ‘Hmm. I like that.’ I was really impressed with it. So, that’s what made me take notice of him properly. But at the moment, still, it’s just barking in the wind ‘cause who’s he fought at 185?” added Adesanya.

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If this monstrous middleweight match-up goes down, who do you think will win? ‘Borz’ or ‘The Last Style Bender’?

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Shivam Verma is a UFC author at EssentiallySports. This combat sports fan and active Jiu-Jitsu and kickboxing practitioner, who is also a media graduate, has worked with various news and media organizations. By combining his interest and educational degree, Shivam is on a mission to unite his two passions- love for writing and sports. He feels that mixed martial arts are about the technique and movements of people who have spent their entire lives training and perfecting it. Hence, he is more inclined towards technical fighters like Georges St-Pierre, Charles Oliveira, Khabib, and Kamaru Usman. Apart from writing, Shivam seeks to work on fiction and non-fiction projects as a film-maker.

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