Adesanya has no interest in boxing, plans to make mega-money in UFC

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It s silly. Why would I come to the proving ground of all fighting the UFC and then afterward, fight a guy and take away like 80 percent of my weapons. Everyone from Jorge Masvidal to Stipe Miocic wants to make the crossover to boxing, but newly-crowned UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has no intention of ever leaving the cage.

Speaking on a recent edition of Ebro in the Morning, The Last Stylebender said he plans to make mega-money in the UFC and can t understand why other fighters won t adopt the same attitude.

This UFC is where I m going to end my career, Adesanya said h t Abhinav Kini of The Body Lock MMA . People say, oh, after UFC, you can go to boxing and have one super fight maybe with Canelo and make a hundred million.

I m like, I can do that in the UFC. I might be the first fighter to do that in the UFC.

Adesanya, a former kickboxing world champion, went on to state that the baddest motherf-ckers in the world belong in the UFC, not boxing or any other limited combat sport.

It s silly. Why would I come to the proving ground of all fighting the UFC and then afterward, fight a guy and take away like 80 percent of my weapons, he said. I want to kick people. I want to strangle someone. I can t do that in boxing. I don t want to get into the clinch and then okay, break.

Same thing with kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, judo, wrestling they re all limited styles of fighting. If you want to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. Pound-for-pound everyone throws that greatest fighter, pound-for-pound is Canelo Alvarez . He s the pound-for-pound maybe greatest boxer right now. Not fighter. You have to test yourself against another style.

The 30-year-old unified the middleweight titles with a second-round knockout of Robert Whittaker at UFC 243 and plans to defend his title against Yoel Romero in the new year.

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