Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-11-12, pretty good mma bout: Israel Adesanya vs Alex Pereira gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night – take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
They already faced each other in two kickboxing matches, in 2016 and 2017, and the winner was the Brazilian. Pereira vs Adesanya is scheduled to take place Saturday, November 12th, at the Madison Square Garden in New York (USA), in a 5-round middleweight (185 lbs, 84 kg) bout; it is the main event of the Ufc 281 and it is valid for the UFC middleweight championship title (they also faced each other a second time on April 8th, 2023 – Alex Pereira vs Israel Adesanya 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-07-02, disappointing mma fight: Israel Adesanya vs Jared Cannonier gets two stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Cannonier vs Adesanya is the main event of Ufc 276 and it is valid for the UFC middleweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-02-12, some good exchanges but it is not enough to get three stars: the mma fight Israel Adesanya vs Robert Whittaker 2 gets two (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Whittaker vs Adesanya 2 is the main event of UFC 271 and it is valid for the UFC middleweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-06-12, some good exchanges but it is not enough to get three stars: the mma fight Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori 2 gets two (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2021).
Vettori vs Adesanya 2 is the main event of Ufc 263 and it is valid for the UFC middleweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-03-06, pretty good mma fight: Jan Blachowicz vs Israel Adesanya gets three stars.
Adesanya vs Blachowicz is the main event of Ufc 259, and it is valid for the UFC light heavyweight title (Blachowicz’s first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2020-09-27, pretty good fight between Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night). Both undefeated, the former Glory kickboxing fighter and Ufc Mw champ Israel Adesanya entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 19-0-0 (74% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.1 middleweight in the world while his opponent, the black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Paulo Henrique Borrachinha Costa, has an official record of 13-0-0 (92% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.3 in the same weight class. In their last three bouts Adesanya has won over Kelvin Gastelum (Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya), Robert Whittaker (Robert Whittaker vs Israel Adesanya) and Yoel Romero (Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero) while the Brazilian has beat Johny Hendricks (Johny Hendricks vs Paulo Costa), Uriah Hall (Uriah Hall vs Paulo Costa) and Yoel Romero (Yoel Romero vs Paulo Costa). Costa vs Adesanya, main event of the Ufc 253, is valid for the UFC middleweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2020-03-07, disappointing fight between Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero: it is close to get one star!
The undefeated former Glory kickboxing fighter and Ufc Mw champ Israel Adesanya entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 18-0-0 (78% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.1 middleweight in the world. In his last three bouts he has won over Anderson Silva (Israel Adesanya vs Anderson Silva), Kelvin Gastelum (Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya) and Robert Whittaker (Robert Whittaker vs Israel Adesanya).
His opponent, the former Olympian wrestler Yoel Romero Palacio, has an official record of 13-4-0 (85% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.5 in the same weight class but he won just one out of his last four fights, against Luke Rockhold in 2018 (Yoel Romero vs Luke Rockhold); after this bout he has lost to Robert Whittaker (Robert Whittaker vs Yoel Romero II) and Paulo Henrique Borrachinha Costa (4 stars-fight, Yoel Romero Palacio vs Paulo Henrique Borrachinha Costa). Adesanya vs Romero, main event of Ufc 248, is valid for the Ufc middleweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-10-06, pretty good finish between Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).
The black belt in hapkido, karate, Tuf Ww tournament winner and current Ufc Mw champion Robert Whittaker entered this fight with a professional mma record of 20-4-0 (70% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since June 9, 2018 when he defeated Yoel Romero in their rematch (via split decision, Robert Whittaker vs Yoel Romero II). He had suffered two consecutive losses between 2013 and 2014, against Court McGee (McGee vs Whittaker) and Stephen Thompson (Whittaker vs Thompson), but then he has won nine consecutive bouts defeating Yoel Romero also in 2017 (Yoel Romero vs Robert Whittaker I).
His opponent, the undefeated former Glory kickboxing fighter and interim Ufc Mw champ Israel Adesanya, has a perfect record of 17-0-0 (76% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.2 middleweight in the world. In his last three bouts he has won over Derek Brunson (Derek Brunson vs Israel Adesanya), Anderson Silva (Israel Adesanya vs Anderson Silva) and Kelvin Gastelum (Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya). Whittaker vs Adesanya, main event of UFC 243, is valid for the Ufc middleweight title; they also faced each other a second time on February 12, 2022 (Israel Adesanya vs Robert Whittaker 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-04-13, nice exchanges between Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya: it gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night).
The Tuf 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum entered this fight with a pro mma record of 15-3-0 (67% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.4 middleweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Robert Whittaker). He lost to Chris Weidman in 2017 (Weidman vs Gastelum) but then he has beat Michael Bisping (Michael Bisping vs Kelvin Gastelum) and Ronaldo Souza (Kelvin Gastelum vs Ronaldo Jacare Souza).
His opponent, the undefeated former Glory kickboxing fighter Israel Adesanya, has a perfect record of 16-0-0 (81% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.7 in the same weight class. In his last three bouts he has won over Brad Tavares (Brad Tavares vs Israel Adesanya), Derek Brunson (Derek Brunson vs Israel Adesanya) and Anderson Silva (Israel Adesanya vs Anderson Silva). Gastelum vs Adesanya is valid for the interim UFC middleweight championship title; undercard of Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier 2 – UFC 236. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-02-10, good fight between Israel Adesanya and Anderson Silva: it gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night).
The undefeated former Glory kickboxing fighter Israel Adesanya entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 15-0-0 (87% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.8 middleweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Robert Whittaker). He fought four times last year winning over Rob Wilkinson, Martin Vettori (Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori), Brad Tavares (Brad Tavares vs Israel Adesanya) and Derek Brunson (Derek Brunson vs Israel Adesanya).
His opponent, the 43-year-old (14 years older than Adesanya) black belt in Bjj, tae-kwon-do and former Ufc Mw champion Anderson Silva, has an official record of 34-8-0 (76% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since February 11, 2017 when he defeated Derek Brunson (Anderson Silva vs Derek Brunson). Before this bout, in 2016, ‘The Spider’ Silva had lost two consecutive fights: against Michael Bisping in February (controversial decision, Silva vs Bisping) and with Daniel Cormier in July (Cormier vs Silva). Adesanya vs Silva is the new main event of UFC 234 (on the original fight card the main event was Robert Whittaker vs Kelvin Gastelum but the Australian pulled out of the event a few hours prior due to an abdominal hernia). Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-11-12, pretty good mma bout: Israel Adesanya vs Alex Pereira gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night – take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-07-02, disappointing mma fight: Israel Adesanya vs Jared Cannonier gets two stars (take a look at our ranking of the 
