Current middleweight champion Alex Poatan told details of his preparation for the fight that takes place this Saturday in Miami
the brazilian Alex Poatan will you face it Israel Adesanya this Saturday, April 8th, at UFC 287. In the week of the fight, the current middleweight champion opened up about how he intends to beat the Nigerian for the fourth time in a row. In an interview with “ESPN”, the fighter projected the fight that is worth the UFC middleweight belt.
“the glover [Teixeira] He said: ‘Chuck Liddell is coming over, he’s going to stay this week because the guy has a lot to tell you that matches his game’. His visit here was very good, it was a week, but I’m a guy who learns very easily, I’m dedicated. Some details that for me will be very important in the fight that I’m sure I’ll need and I’ll do something“, began Poatan.
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“We train more the wrestling part, Chuck Liddell’s thing is to do takedown defense and beat us up. And that’s what I have to prepare for. If Adesaya comes with this intention of wanting to put me down, of doing something different, that could be it. I know how to deal with it, but it wasn’t this week that I started, I’ve been doing this for a long time“, continued the Brazilian.
“What I started to do was this, that was the intention, to defend the takedown and beat him up. [O corte de cabelo igual ao de Chuck Liddell] it was just to make waves. I shave my own hair, I started doing it and I was like ‘let me see what I’d look like as Chuck Liddell’. Then I took a picture to show everyone.“, finished Alex Poatan in the week of UFC 287.
It is worth mentioning that the rivalry between Alex Poatan and Adesanya is old. The two haven’t had a great relationship since before their entry into the UFC and now they’ve intensified this dispute even more with the fight for the middleweight belt. He took away a long streak of belts from Israel, and the Nigerian wants to recover the post in the 287th edition of the Ultimate.
Source: sportbuzz
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