Israel Adesanya and Eugene Bareman Exclusive UFC 248 Pre-Fight Interview

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In an extended sit-down interview with MMA Fighting, UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya reflects on his journey to the top and the path he took ahead of his title fight against Yoel Romero at UFC 248. Follow José Youngs: @JoseYoungs Follow Esther Lin: @allelbows 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 Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:05.0	Well, what's up guys?
0:07.0	And my fighting.
0:08.0	The team's here, Jose Young's and Esther Lynn speaking with U.S.
0:11.0	Middle-Aid champion Israeli Sonja and head coach of City Kickpots and Eugene Bearman.
0:15.0	Big fight on Saturday, I guess, right?
0:17.0	Yeah. A little bit.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	So your last fight, it was obviously in Melbourne,'re in that was in that Australia.
0:25.4	You're now in Las Vegas your first fight sends Brad Tavares.
0:27.9	So I'm personally curious.
0:30.1	What is the difference in Fight Week like to then where do you have probably more media locally rather than you're basically flying all the way across the world now to do media, right?
0:39.0	Yeah, um, even flying over like for a day at a time for LA for Houston just to like do the face off and whatnot
0:47.3	And for UFC 2 43 it was a lot of media but my team handles that day they chopped down all the fat from it so we
0:56.2	never really get in on the day but this week was pretty good my busiest day was Tuesday and then the rest like I mean this is
1:05.6	my last media for the day and then I can just chill and then we'll train later on.
1:09.4	What about you coach like was I imagine media was probably higher.
1:13.4	The demand for you yourself is probably higher closer to home, right?
1:17.8	Yeah, I don't do that much.
1:19.2	I do a lot of minds like, Ed Huck-Wands, like, I'm just passing by people be like can I interview and I'm just passing by.
1:27.0	Yeah I'll always say yes because I'm just
1:30.0	he's been madder I be and I saw that was I'm just he's been I did the he's been a nice guy. He's been, I did the he's been today at this one.
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