Marvin Vettori and Israel Adesanya are never going to be friends, that much has been made very clear. The UFC middleweights have been firing shots at each other and Vettori has shown no signs of slowing down.
Marvin Vettori has been criticizing Israel Adesanya and the way he fights. The UFC middleweight champion doesn't like his no-risk approach to fights.
“The way Adesanya fights, he fights like a bitch, bro,” Vettori said in an interview with EsNews. “I swear. He fought me like a bitch. He fought Romero like a bitch. When he knows, like he can’t really hurt a guy or nothing, he’ll fight like – he’ll fight, he’ll run, he’ll score. He’s like, ‘Oh, you got to beat me to become the champion.’ His mentality is not like, ‘I am the champion, I’m going to fuck you up. That’s my fucking (inaudible).’ He’s thinking like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna cruise. If you want to come and beat me, you’ll have to beat me.’ That’s how he thinks.”
The UFC middleweight doesn't even consider Israel Adesanya one of the best fighters. Marvin Vettori will never consider him the best.
“That, to me, will never be – he can’t be the pound-for-pound best,” Vettori added. “Pound-for-pound best is like, ‘You’re fucking with the champion, this is my reign, I’m gonna destroy you.”
There is a very slim chance the UFC will ever book the two in a trilogy fight. The two fights they had weren't very entertaining and the champion won both of them.
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