HOAM | Israel Adesanya Not To Blame For UFC 276 Main Event, Is Alexander Volkanovski Pound-For-Pound Best?

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Israel Adesanya is getting a lot of flack for his performance in the main event of UFC 276 this past Saturday, but is the middleweight champion of the world truly to blame for the fight not being as thrilling as some thought it might be? On an all-new Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck looks back on the main event of the UFC's International Fight Week card and makes the case for the blame to not be placed upon Adesanya following his unanimous decision win over Jared Cannonier. In addition, listener questions are brought up regarding Alexander Volkanovski's pound-for-pound status following his sensational performance against Max Holloway in the co-main event, the ending of the Sean O'Malley vs. Pedro Munhoz fight, up and comers such as Jalin Turner and Maycee Barber getting some shine on the same night Donald Cerrone and Jessica Eye retired, and much more. You can listen live to Heck of a Morning Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10 a.m. ET on the MMA Fighting Twitter Spaces. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:21.0	Well, hello there, everybody. It is Tuesday, July 5th, 2022, and it is indeed a heck of
0:29.0	a morning. Live on the M.A. Fighting Twitter spaces shortly thereafter. You can find the show on the M.A. Fighting
0:36.0	Podcast Network. I am Mike Heck. Hope everyone had a great long weekend, especially in the U.S.
0:43.0	with Fourth of July happening yesterday. Hope you all enjoyed. UFC 276 on Saturday.
0:50.0	The International Fight Week Experience. It's just crazy. Got out there Tuesday. We had the
0:56.0	Media Day Wednesday. We had press conference for the event on Thursday. We had the Hall of Fame on Thursday.
1:03.0	And Friday, we had Day 1 of Radio Row, which is a lot of fun at the UFC X Fan Expo.
1:11.0	There was the UFC 278 press conference with Usman and Leon Edwards, ceremonial weigh-ins.
1:18.0	And it was just a whole bunch of crazy, this ladies gentleman. And of course Saturday, we had Radio
1:23.0	Row Day 2 at the Fight Week Expo UFC X, which is even crazier than the first day.
1:31.0	And then Saturday, we had the Fight Card. It was just wild. It was just a wild event.
1:36.0	And I'm finally back in South Carolina after two, basically a two-day travel.
1:42.0	I don't have much voice. I'm exhausted. We survived the first trip to Vegas.
1:49.0	And UFC 276 had some storyline. Some very good. Some not so good. Of course, the main events.
1:57.0	We had Israel, Adesanya, defend his title successfully against Jared Cannonier.
2:03.0	This was a one-sided fight. It was just dominated by Adesanya.
2:10.0	You can use that term however you'd like. This wasn't a Adesanya did a whole bunch of exciting things.
2:17.0	This was Adesanya going out there and winning a fight, which is the job.
2:21.0	That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to go out and win the fight.
2:24.0	And he's been taking a little bit of a beating for this. Now, I have been...
2:30.0	I'm not defending Adesanya per se, but I don't understand the backlash of all of this.
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