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Israel Adesanya has no interest in boxing crossover fights, plans to make mega-money in UFC

Everyone from Jorge Masvidal to Stipe Miocic wants to make the crossover to boxing, but newly-crowned UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has no intention of ever leaving the cage.

Speaking on a recent edition of Ebro in the Morning, ‘The Last Stylebender’ said he plans to make mega-money in the UFC and can’t understand why other fighters won’t adopt the same attitude.

“This [UFC] is where I’m going to end my career,” Adesanya said (h/t Abhinav Kini of The Body Lock MMA). “People say, ‘oh, after UFC, you can go to boxing and have one super fight maybe with Canelo and make a hundred million.