Computers for undergraduate science?
Watched a kung fu movie and started practicing boxing?
He played MMA later than Whitaker into the UFC?
In addition to the amazing blowing skills in the octagonal cage, the "acquired effort" for the kick boxer to have a very good ability to prevent falls, Adi Saya has too many seemingly irrelevant or even mutually exclusive labels and unpopular small details, today we take a plate of Adi Saya you don't know.
Diverse backgrounds
Dancing, computers and fighting
Born in July 1989 in Lagos, Nigeria, Adisaya is the eldest of five children in a family whose father is an accountant and mother is a nurse. As a child, Adisaya's first martial art was taekwondo, but after a fractured arm injury, his mother stopped him from practicing taekwondo.
When Adisaya was in high school, he began to be exposed to dance, an important element of his unique fighting style; later he practiced the breaking dance for a long time, which is a highly skillful dance.
As a young man, Adisaya emigrated to New Zealand with his family, and after completing high school in New Zealand, he entered the National Union Institute of Technology of New Zealand to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer design. If nothing else, this well-born immigrant guy might be working in technology — but his experience of being bullied in high school has planted a desire for martial arts in Adisaya's mind. During college, Adisaya began his kicking training career after watching Tony Jia's movie "Boxing", and a talented boxer entered the world of fighting.
Unlike those perfect sports idols who "academic + career", Adi Saya chose to suspend his studies two years after starting to practice kickboxing, devoted himself to his kickboxing career, and won the first 32 amateur kickboxing matches, which shows his talent for fighting.
Gifted people
Two-tier combat, 7 races, multiple levels
Adisaya is not an undefeated king with a perfect record, but he still shows terrible dominance in the middleweights of the UFC: since his debut in 2010, he has played 80 professional games and won 75 and achieved world-class success; at the same time, he started MMA in 2012 but only retired from kickboxing in March 2017 to start a full-time MMA career – after joining the UFC in February 2018, he played 6 games in a year and a half. It also includes an interim championship match. Finally, in October 2019, he defeated Whitaker to win the UFC middleweight title.
Adisaya has lost seven times in more than 100 matches in his career, only to be KO once in the kickbox – defeating arch-rival Alex Pereira. And in the MMA arena where he shined, no one has ever been able to end him. 22 MMA matches, 15 ko opponents, anti-fall success rate of 80%, which is a perennial boxing, MMA two-line combat, such a level of entanglement is invaluable.
In kickboxing, Adisaya has competed in at least three classes: middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight, and has won impressive victories with his rich three-dimensional technical system. Although he lost to the UFC middleweight champion and weight-up challenge at the time of the lightweight champion Blačović, the first defeat of his career - but relying on ground defense to play five rounds, Adisaya still made history, he was the first UFC middleweight champion to rise to a super battle.
The strongest otaku on the surface
The last martial artist with his second dimension
Chinese fans may not be too confused when they first see Adi Saya's nickname "The Last Martial Artist", but if you dig deeper into the allusions, you can find a strong concentration of home on him. "The Last stylebender" originated from a classic american animated series with a "divine work" level reputation , "Incarnation: The Last Qizong", the owner of all the elements in the animation is called "The Last Airbender", Adisaya uses this as a nickname, and also has the meaning of seeing himself as the master of all the "elements" in the MMA world.
In addition to niche dramas such as "Incarnate Divine Powers: The Last Qizong", Adi Saya is also a well-known "Naruto" fan, whether it is entering the UFC debut as a Naruto run, or most of the daily "seals" before the competition to obtain Chakra,d'tify his heart, which proves that he is a full "secondary two teenager" at heart.
Adisaya, who loves Naruto, is also interested in Japanese culture: in the pre-World War II appearance of Vittori, Adisaya cosplayed the characters in Souls of Tsushima;
In the curtain call before the first meeting with Whitaker, Adi Saya also imitated the bridge of the classic movie "Death Note": write the enemy's name on the Death Note, and the "God of Death" will find him - in Adi Saya's world, this may be his spiritual "blessing" to defeat his opponents.
Adisaya is like a genius and a geek, he always wants to surprise his fans on the field. At the same time, he also expressed his love with one punch and one leg. What will he say on this stage in his second battle with Whitaker this Sunday?
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