Since breaking into the UFC in February 2018, Israel Adesanya’s accession up the UFC middleweight rankings has been one of the hottest stories in mixed martial arts.
In just 12 months, fans have witnessed “The Last Stylebender” string together victories over Rob Wilkinson, Marvin Vettori, Brad Tavares, Derek Brunson and Anderson Silva. For his efforts in such a short amount of time, UFC officials awarded Adesanya a shot at the interim UFC middleweight championship against Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 236 in April.