Cormier’s view on Adesanya’s motivation
“So like when that second occurs, like in opposition to (Kelvin) Gastelum, and he was within the nook within the fifth spherical and he went, ‘I’ll die for this,’ and he was like mouthing to himself, ‘I’ll die for this, I’ll die for this,’ he had cash,” Cormier mentioned on “Good Man/Dangerous Man” with Sonnen. “He was a kickboxing champion, however he was combating for an interim championship with the chance to get to Robert Whitaker to change into the unified champion. He didn’t have cash on the fee that he has proper now.
“He didn’t have the zeros within the checking account. He didn’t have the accolades. He didn’t have the notoriety. He’ll discover himself in that fourth to fifth spherical with Imavov this weekend and should dig deep understanding that nothing modifications if he doesn’t, proper? Nothing modifications.
“Israel Adesanya will nonetheless be a star if he wins or he loses. Israel Adesanya will nonetheless gather the identical paycheck on Saturday evening if he loses. The cash he has within the financial institution stays the identical. All of his investments and properties will stay the identical. How does he pull again to that second when he didn’t have all these issues if want be?
“I by no means in my life fought a five-round fundamental occasion that wasn’t for a championship, and I’ve bought to be sincere: I don’t assume that I might. I don’t assume I might have went 25 minutes with out understanding that there was a shiny gold belt ready on the top of that as a result of it’s laborious to drag that canine out of you everytime you don’t get that factor which means a lot when the evening’s over.”
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