Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-08-18, some good exchanges but it is not enough to get three stars: the mma bout Dricus Du Plessis vs Israel Adesanya gets two (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2024).
Adesanya vs Du Plessis is scheduled to take place Sunday, August 18th, at the RAC Arena in Perth (Australia), in a 5-round middleweight (185 lbs, 84 kg) bout; it is the main event of the Ufc 305 and it is valid for the UFC middleweight championship (Du Plessis’ first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-09-10, mma bout not so exciting: Israel Adesanya vs Sean Strickland gets two stars (UFC Performance of the Night – take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2023).
Strickland vs Adesanya is scheduled to take place Sunday, September 10th, at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney (Australia), in a 5-round middleweight (185 lbs, 84 kg) bout; it is the main event of Ufc 293 and it is valid for the UFC Middleweight championship. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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!
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Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-08-18, some good exchanges but it is not enough to get three stars: the mma bout Dricus Du Plessis vs Israel Adesanya gets two (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2024).
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-09-10, mma bout not so exciting: Israel Adesanya vs Sean Strickland gets two stars (UFC Performance of the Night – take a look at our ranking of the 
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 
