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UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya’s great coach Eugene Bareman appeared recently on the great Submission Radio, and discussed the title challenge vs. light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz in the main event of UFC 259 on Saturday.
“This is Israel’s hardest fight by quite a bit,” said Bareman. “This is a jump up from any of his previous challengers. And for all intents and purposes within our camp, we are building ourselves as the underdogs. And we’re doing that based on we’re giving away this size and weight advantage that we sometimes have in our favor. Now, we’re gonna give it away. … What we’re about to attempt here is, people don’t understand, a very, very difficult endeavor and a very risky one, and one that makes for all us coaches and Israel, it makes the hairs on the back of our necks stand up. Because this is a true, true challenge. And it’s a scary one, and it’s one that gets you up early in the morning and wanting to attack it. And we�
UFC 257: Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor Sober play-by-play: Luck favors the prepared fist Jan 25, 2021, 10:00am EST
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Everything about this fight going in was obvious to Phil and I: Conor McGregor would eventually win, and probably in dramatic fashion. Dustin Poirier was a little too blue collar in his approach in my estimation. But I want to quote myself because I didn’t get everything wrong:
“While I don’t think Poirier can counterpunch effectively, he does have effective counterpunches and he nearly caught Conor with a few in their first fight. If Poirier can maintain a rhythm where he’s punishing Conor with counters as much as Poirier is getting punished by Conor’s counters, I can see Dustin nickel-and-diming his way to victory.”