Israel Adesanya dyed his hair pink in the weeks leading up to UFC 253, but ‘The Last Stylebender’ reverted back to his natural color at the last minute.
Adesanya, who TKO’d Paulo Costa in the UFC 253 main event, revealed that his father persuaded him to ditch the pink hair because it could have provided ‘Borrachinha’ with a visual aid on fight night.
“Shout out to my dad. He said I’m going to blind him,” Adesanya said at the post-fight press conference following his masterclass performance against Costa (h/t MMA Fighting’s Damon Martin). “I’m going to blind him with my jab and when he’s compromised with one eye, and if I take the other eye out, if he sees that pink hue, he’ll still know where my head is.