FanDuel<\/a>.<\/p>\nRound 1<\/p>\n
Herb Dean the third man in the cage for the main event.<\/p>\n
Pyfer looking exceedingly calm as he walks forward, Adesanya bouncing around with some energy. There\u2019s a takedown attempt from Pyfer, he has a bodylock as he pushes Adesanya to the fence. Fans already booing. Let the guys grapple!<\/p>\n
Good takedown defense from Adesanya and he\u2019s out of there, narrowly avoiding an uppercut on the separation. Pyfer throwing big and Adesanya leans out of the way. Jab by Adesanya. He\u2019s cutting off the cage. Straight left from Adesanya, then a high knee connects. Pyfer lunges with a right. Jab from Adesanya, but Pyfer walks through it and lands a left hand. Adesanya defends another takedown attempt.<\/p>\n
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Adesanya has Pyfer biting on a kick feint. He\u2019s sticking that jab in Pyfer\u2019s face. Sharp leg kick by Adesanya. Pyfer answers with one of his own. Takedown by Pyfer, but not a lot of time to work. We\u2019re on to Round 2.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Adesanya.<\/p>\n
Round 2<\/p>\n
Adesanya quickly closes the distance. He lands as Pyfer misses, then slows him with a leg kick. Pyfer complains of an eye poke. Uh oh. Not a long pause before the action resumes. Adesanya mixing in leg kicks beautifully. He stuffs another takedown, then backs Pyfer up with some punches. Nice uppercut inside by Pyfer. Clean right hand by Adesanya and Pyfer definitely felt that one. Adesanya tries to counter a takedown attempt with a trip, kind of neat.<\/p>\n
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Pyfer a little desperate on these takedowns. Left hook by Pyfer, he\u2019s actually landing some hard punches, but Adesanya is firing back. Defense momentarily goes out the window. Adesanya caps off a combo with a kick. Big right hand by Pyfer. He\u2019s letting his hands go with Adesanya defending against the fence. A wild exchange ends with Pyfer just dragging Adesanya to the canvas. Fun!<\/p>\n
Full mount for Pyfer, then he gets Adesanya\u2019s back. Adesanya fights off the hands, Pyfer actively looking for a choke. Pyfer back into mount with over a minute to work. He drives an elbow down onto Adesanya, who rolls on to his back. Pyfer flattens him out and he\u2019s throwing heavy ground-and-pound. Dean giving Adesanya plenty of time to work, but he has to call this one off. Huge knockout win for Pyfer.<\/p>\n
Post-fight<\/p>\n
Pyfer with an emotional and revealing interview:<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s weird, it\u2019s like I could see this moment happening. I almost took my own life a couple of weeks ago and I found God and I hate crying so I\u2019m going to keep it together. God restored me, that\u2019s the only reason I\u2019m here. USA baby, let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason in the second round, we knew I had the bigger firepower, so we were just going to keep that pressure on him. I was super sloppy yet again, getting my leg beat up, but I just kind of have this mentality that I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m going to search and destroy and you better put me out because I\u2019m not stopping.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIzzy is not the most powerful guy in the world, we know that. He\u2019s one of the highest IQ champions of all time, two-time champion, there\u2019s nobody better than him in my book, he\u2019s the greatest middleweight of all time. He\u2019s so successful outside of the sport now. Whatever he does, I support him, I love you as a champion, I love you as a person, congratulations to Israel. What I will say, my man was No. 4, I\u2019m in the top 5. As Izzy said, \u2018They need me. And I am here.\u2019 I\u2019m 16-3, I\u2019m 29 years old, I\u2019ve got the most beautiful woman waiting at home waiting for me to marry her, I love you. All glory to God for this victory or I\u2019d be dead in a ditch somewhere. Let\u2019s go! And that\u2019s a bonus!\u201d<\/p>\n
Izzy<\/p>\n
\u201cI expected the best Joe Pyfer. I knew this was his biggest fight ever, so he\u2019s going to bring his best and he did. There was nothing surprising. I expected the best and he brought the best. \u2026 Congrats to Joe Pyfer for this.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He says he brawled because he wanted to feel like he\u2019d been in a fight.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s retiring:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep going again and again and again and again and again. I\u2019m not f*cking leaving. You\u2019ll never stop me. I might get beaten, but I\u2019ll always remain undefeated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the live blog for Israel Adesanya vs. Joe Pyfer, the middleweight main event for Saturday\u2019s UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,16597,16595,16598],"class_list":{"0":"post-40849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-israel-adesanya","10":"tag-joe-pyfer","11":"tag-pyfer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116310748778553647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}