Israel Adesanya is very amused by Paulo Costa’s latest excuse for his loss in UFC 253.
Costa (13-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC), who fell short in his attempt to win the middleweight title of Adesanya (20-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) with a second-round TKO defeat in September, he recently revealed in a YouTube video that he drank wine the night before he entered the octagon to help him sleep.
That decision eventually backfired, Costa said, because he got into the “hangover” fight and claims he fought both for drinking and for lack of proper sleep. Adesanya found it to be quite comical, he told MMA Junkie on Monday.
“That’s fun,” Adesanya told MMA Junkie. “There are certain things I’ve done before some of my fights in the past where I learned my mistakes, but I came in and finished the job. Some people are not cut out for this lifestyle. “
For her part, Adesanya says she was a little baffled as to why Costa would come out and make that statement now, after more than five months have passed since the fight.
Costa has pressed hard for a rematch after UFC 253. The Brazilian said he would “kill” Adesanya if they played it again and is not happy with how the champion has rubbed the result in his face since the fight. heated.
Adesanya said the attitude will not be beneficial for Costa’s career. Currently, “The Eraser” is set to fight Robert Whittaker in the main event of the UFC Fight Night on April 17, and a victory would put him back in the conversation for another title.
If he wants a second fight to be different, Adesanya said Costa needs to correct himself both mentally and physically.
“I’ll tell you one thing: the best thing he can do in his position is to accept the fact that he lost,” Adesanya said. “He got his ass screaming at him. The fact that he keeps trying to make all these excuses will only make it worse in the long run. He’s making excuses because his ego can’t stand the fact that ‘The Skinny Clown’ make a bad scream in his ass and then touched him twice.
“You just have to swallow your ego. You got your ass kicked. Return to the drawing board and reevaluate the entire game. You can’t rest on it, because if you do, that’s my advice, you’ll never come to life or in this game. “
It remains to be seen whether or not there is a revenge in the future. For now, though, Adesanya is focusing on something bigger than Costa.
“The Last Stylebender” will try to add the light heavyweight title to his resume alongside the middleweight belt when he challenges Jan Blachowicz (27-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) in the UFC 259 main event, which takes place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and airs for pay-per-view after preliminary testing on ESPN and the first on ESPN +.