With professional fighting victory No. 100 securely, and easily, locked up, Israel Adesanya took a moment to let his critics have a piece of his mind.
The UFC’s middleweight champion decimated Paulo Costa, who was supposed to present the gravest threat to his reign, but it ended after eight minutes and 59 seconds of a one-sided beatdown.
Adesanya was quicker, he was smarter and he was just plain better than Costa, whom he knocked out Saturday in the main event of UFC 253 to retain his middleweight title at Flash Forum in Abu Dhabi.
It was no contest from the beginning.