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Israel Adesanya wanted to fight the monster, until it came time to fight the monster

The thing about predicting legacy, talking trash and swaggering around the cage is that it’s all good when you’re putting on a show and all bad when the show falls flat. UFC 248 was what Israel Adesanya wanted, what he asked for. He ran straight for the middleweight division’s bogeyman, Yoel Romero, a fight that he said was selected exactly because it was the scariest thing he could do, a match that would help define his history.

In retrospect, it will probably be one he skips past when he considers his career’s greatest hits.