Midnight Mania! Glover Teixeira doesn’t expect new strategy, takedowns from Israel Adesanya: ‘He won’t change much’

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This weekend (Sat., April 8, 2023), Israel Adesanya will try to lastly rating his revenge on knockout artist Alex Pereira in the principle occasion of UFC 287. Pereira has defeated Adesanya thrice now, twice in kickboxing and once at UFC 281.

Two of those defeats came via knockout.

One of many massive query marks surrounding this fourth match is whether or not Adesanya will look to wrestle extra usually. Of their final bout, Adesanya discovered nice success within the third spherical, catching a kick and gaining high place after some clinch tussling. He spent a lot of the spherical on high, clearly fatiguing Pereira and touchdown some respectable strikes within the course of.

Seeing as Pereira’s knockout menace is significantly lessened from his again, it would make sense for Adesanya to commit extra power in direction of the takedown. Nevertheless, Alex Pereira’s longtime workforce mate and former champion Glover Teixeira doesn’t anticipate Adesanya to actually pursue that route. Actually, he believes it is going to largely be extra of the identical from “Stylebender.”

“You may’t change a lot. Nobody will change that a lot,” Teixeira mentioned (by way of MMA Fighting). “I feel Adesanya will come a bit completely different, attempt to improve his pace and the angles that had been engaged on ‘Poatan.’ We’ve watched that combat lots right here. And he’ll attempt to get higher, and so did ‘Poatan’. He’ll work on the issues that labored for him and discover that, however altering is sophisticated.

“Adesanya was capable of take ‘Poatan’ to the bottom with a berimbolo, ended on high and form of stayed there to win that spherical, however you’ll marvel if he’ll strive that technique? He gained’t, he’s not a wrestler. He may attempt to take him down, however taking ‘Poatan’ down will not be simple.”

Teixeira wasn’t talking in dismissal of the previous champion. As an alternative, he emphasizes that Adesanya is probably going going to stay to his strengths, a few of which did discover him success within the UFC 281 contest.

Teixeira concluded, “[Adesanya] gained’t combat like me, speeding ahead and making an attempt takedowns relentlessly. He’ll be Adesanya. I feel he’ll discover his pace, these leg kicks that had been working, that jab and cross that landed ultimately [of the first round]. He’ll try this. He gained’t change a lot.”

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