Israel Adesanya and Kamaru Usman have been linked for a super-fight against each other by Ali Abdelaziz. Abdelaziz is currently Usman's manager and he made some recent comments about the two UFC champions fighting each other.

The UFC middleweight champion was recently on The MMA Hour he did not hold back on Kamaru Usman's manager. It's clear Israel Adesanya has no interest in the fight.

“I’m like, what the fuck is this peanut head talking about? Because I’ve gone on record saying I don’t want this fight,” Adesanya told Ariel Helwani. “We don’t want this fight, because it’s bigger than us. I understand where he’s coming from, don’t get me wrong.

“I understand where he’s coming from. But you can make tens of millions other ways. There’s so many other fights you can make. But he said he’s being selfish — I’m like, fair enough. And also, he just needs to give his fighters their phone back, like Kamaru has said because sometimes he gets on there and starts to talk all this rubbish.”

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Israel Adesanya mentions that the fight is bigger than the both of them. It's not about the two UFC champions having a super-fight, it's about what the two champions mean to the continent of Africa.

“This fight is not just going to happen just because, ‘Oh, it needs to happen, we need to see it.’ Nah, it’s bigger than us,” the UFC champion said. “The great nation of Africa, we’ve got three people who are champions right now and defending and ruling their divisions with iron black fists. This is legendary.

“They’re going to talk about this in history. Not sports history, they’re going to talk about this in sports history and just history in general. So why try and [ruin it]? We’re going to divide and conquer. So, Kamaru is his own person, Kamaru tells him when to fuck off too.”