Adesanya will face a stiff test in Nassourdine Imavov in the UFC Riyadh main event this Saturday. While he’s faced opponents ...

UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis was unfazed by Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker's critique toward the way he ...

Israel Adesanya solidified himself as a UFC superstar when he danced his way to the octagon before title-winning knockout ...

Adesanya's magnum opus. He entered the octagon as an undefeated phenom and the then UFC interim middleweight champion. Meanwhile, Whittaker was the defending undisputed champion, who had scored ...

Longtime UFC foes reunited on the mats. Robert Whittaker (27-8 MMA, 17-6 UFC) and Israel Adesanya (24-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC), who fought two times for the UFC middleweight title, recently spent time ...

Former two-time UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has enlisted the help of former rival Robert Whittaker in preparation for his comeback fight against Nassourdine Imavov at UFC Saudi ...

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The former UFC middleweight champion was in Auckland this week training alongside long-time rival Israel Adesanya and the team at City Kickboxing, with Whittaker reaching out to the gym as he ...

In a somewhat surprising development, Nassourdine Imavov scored a second-round knockout win over Israel Adesanya in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Saudi Arabia fight card. The loss was ...

Adesanya claimed the UFC’s interim middleweight belt in a Fight of the Night-winning war with Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 236 before facing Whittaker five months later at UFC 243, where he stopped th ...

The first fight card on the 2025 UFC schedule, UFC Saudi Arabia takes place on Saturday, February 1 from the anb Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The main event of the card is a middleweight matchup ...

The pair have had one of the biggest rivalries in the middleweight division in recent years, with Adesanya dethroning Whittaker with ... It will be his first non-UFC title bout since a unanimous ...