UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya stranded overseas in quarantine, to miss Junior Fa training camp

UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya stranded overseas in quarantine, to miss Junior Fa training camp

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UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is currently stranded overseas; and will subsequently be forced to spend Christmas in quarantine due to New Zealand’s new managed isolation travel voucher system. Adesanya had initially travelled to the US on 25th October with City Kickboxing teammate Brad Riddell to meet New Zealand’s latest UFC signing Carlos Ulberg in Las Vegas.

They were supposed to arrive back in New Zealand on 9th November; but the recently introduced managed isolation voucher system means that they cannot secure a place in quarantine until December 15th.

“Athletes received no direct notification from the airline or the Ministry of Business”: City Kickboxing

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Israel Adesanya will be missing Junior Fa’s training camp for the Joseph Parker fight

Tickets were booked in late September before the new system was introduced; while the New Zealand UFC team was overseas for Adesanya’s middleweight title defense against Paulo Costa. They had arrived back in New Zealand and quarantined until mid-October, thus missing a major part awareness campaign that the Government began in late September.

City Kickboxing later stated that the athletes received no direct notification from the airline or the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment about the requirement of a travel voucher to return. The management team became aware of the requirement only after they left and the earliest they were able to secure vouchers was December 15th. As a result, the “Last Stylebender” will be missing Junior Fa’s training camp for the Joseph Parker fight in addition to several scheduled charity appearances.

Adesanya, along with Ulberg and Riddell now has to move out of the UFC’s secure managed isolation facility and into a public accommodation.

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