When asked about golfing legend Jack Nicklaus at the peak of his powers, the incomparable Bobby Jones surveyed the landscape and summed it up like this: “He plays a game with which I am not familiar.” Israel Adesanya’s peers must know the feeling.
Adesanya tightened his grip on the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight throne with an utterly sublime showing, as he cut down Paulo Henrique Costa with punches and elbows in the second round of their UFC 253 main event on Saturday at the Flash Forum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.