At UFC 276 last weekend, Adisaya, the middleweight king who has been in the limelight in the octagonal cage in recent years, successfully defended the title for the fifth time with a unanimous judgment to easily defeat the challenger and "murderous gorilla" Cannonnil.
But in the eyes of global audiences and the media, his rule has not become more stable with this victory, because on the day when the "Black Dragon" easily defended the title, his "hit nemesis" also killed him again in the same digital contest. （Israel Adesanya）
If "Black Dragon" Adisaya is the most successful top standing player in the MMA field after "Spider" Anderson Silva, then Alex Pereira is the well-deserved "king of kings" in today's standing fighting arena.
This Muay Thai master from Brazil, in the past few years, has swept almost all the top masters of the same era in the field of stand-up fighting, and the now indispensable Adi Saya was also one of the victims of his iron fist. （Alex Pereira）
In 2016, two "genius rising stars" who were also in the ascending period, Pereira and Adi Saya, met for the first time in China, and the two sides fought fiercely for five, and Pereira finally unanimously decided to win.
In 2017, the pair met again on the field in São Paulo, Brazil, this time, Pereira seized on the opponent's offensive loophole and completed a double kill against Adisaya with a left-handed punch directly KO in the third leg.
Shortly thereafter, the "Black Dragon", who had been standing and fighting on the MMA double line, completely withdrew from the field of kickboxing and chose to enter the octagonal cage arena in 2018 to pursue his "UFC championship dream".
Pereira, who had a smooth ride in the kickboxing arena, rose all the way and became a double champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions of GLORY. Now, Pereira, who only entered the UFC in 2021, has once again killed the "Black Dragon" with a wave of three consecutive wins.
And this time, Adi Saya, who has always been known as the "UFC Standing Ceiling", had to face the "hit nemesis" whose standing technology was more powerful than his own for the first time in the future octagonal cage competition, although the MMA arena was different from the kickboxing match, but no one knew whether the "Black Dragon" could still find a way to win when his greatest advantage no longer existed.