Israel Adesanya predicts Dricus du Plessis win UFC title eliminator

Israel Adesanya has predicted that ‘by some juju’ Dricus du Plessis will secure a first round finish victory over Robert Whittaker in their UFC Middleweight Title Eliminator at UFC 290.

Du Plessis was granted the eliminator match after Adesanya took time out of a press conference to call out the South African after the Stylebender recaptured the UFC strap.

Israel Adesanya wants to torture Dricus Du Plessis

Adesanya wants Du Plessis to win so that he can in his words: “Torture him.”

The Nigerian-born kickboxer whose family moved to New Zealand when he was ten, told the MMA Hour that he was initially supportive of Du Plessis after he joined the UFC and revealed that he had sparred with DDP.

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“Funny enough, we’ve trained together before,” Adesanya said in an interview with Ariel Helwani. 

“I whooped his ass. He just wrestle-f***** me in the first round. … He was nice, he was a cool kid. Even in the UFC, when he came to the UFC, I was actually supportive. I was like, ‘Another African in the UFC,’ I swear you can find this online on my YouTube, ‘Another African in the UFC, this is cool.’ So the fact that he came out and started to be braggadocious and question me, I was like, ‘Who the f*** is this c***?’ So when this happens, I’m going to torture him.”

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Adesanya is desperate to get his hands on Du Plessis and doesn’t want him to have any injury excuses.

First round finish?

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When asked to call how the fight would go, Adesanya said: “It’s going to be first round, Dricus, f**** him up, somehow, by some magic, some juju.

“We’ll make it happen. It’s a hard ask, but again, Player 1, you can make things happen. Really, I’ll pray on this and make it happen.”

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Adesanya is incensed that his right to be called an African has been called into question by Du Plessis.

“I know that and I never questioned him as an African, so who the f*** is he to question me as an African?”

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