“Will feel pain but won’t hurt you,” YouTuber regrets asking Israel Adesanya to liver kick as he crumbles in pain

Israel Adesanya is arguably one of the best strikers in UFC. The middleweight champion throws some of the meanest combinations, that fighters can’t seem to handle. He knocked out Alex Pereira with his devastating punches and has knocked out many fighters with his kicks. Yet Adesanya was challenged by a YouTuber who wanted to take damage from his kicks.

The past few weeks have been very eventful for Israel Adesanya. He was signed as one of the first Prime Sponsored Athletes in UFC, had a training session with Logan Paul and made an appearance on the Impaulsive podcast. During his training session with Logan Paul and Alexander Volkanovski, a YouTuber asked Adesanya to hit him with a body kick. The person in question was a reporter /YouTuber named Derek that works for Jake Paul’s Betr Media.

Regardless, Adesanya positioned himself to kick the person. He also issued a warning before striking him down. “ You’ll feel pain but I won’t hurt you, ” said Adesanya. What followed was Israel Adesanya throwing a clean kick to the liver. Although the style bender did not apply much power, Derek was squirming in pain. Israel Adesanya also helped the poor guy who found it hard to stand straight after facing the liver shot.

Apart from Derek, there are also other bodybuilders and YouTubers taking damage from professional MMA fighters head-on. Fitness model Mike O’Hearn taking a body shot from Ian Garry is also another one of the similar case. Regardless, professional fighters can cause a lot of damage to common folks even though they go easy.

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Israel Adesanya details his sparring session with rival Dricus Du Plessis

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is coming off a massive win against his nemesis Alex Pereira in their last bout. With Adesanya back at the top, the middleweight division is running out of fresh matchups. Due to the Stylebender, lapping up opponents one after the other, there are not many prospects ready to take on him. However, middleweight fighter Dricus Du Plessis is a fresh new prospect whom fans can expect to clash against Adesanya in the near future.

During his appearance on the Impaulsive podcast, Israel Adesanya detailed a sparring session with the South African fighter. Prior to making his MMA debut, Adesanya was a very successful kickboxer. While the Stylebender had yet to transition to MMA, he sparred with Du Plessis regardless. ” You know what, I’m coming from China. I was doing kickboxing over there, I had no MMA, nothing, I was kickboxing. I had MMA already, but it wasn’t sharp. It was blunt. My jiu-jitsu was blunt, very blunt. So we’re sparring, I don’t know if we did two rounds or one, it’s so long ago as well. This is 2014, So long ago, I remember like on the grappling he had me. But on striking, I just messed him up,” said Adesanya detailing his sparring session.

Israel Adesanya and Dricus Du Plessis have had heated back and forth over the past couple of months. Regardless, Du Plessis will first have to deal with Robert Whittaker at UFC 290 first.

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