Who defeated Israel Adesanya? How many times has Adesanya lost?

Israel Mobolaji Odunayo Oluwafemi Temitayo Owolabi Adesanya is a Nigerian-New Zealander professional mixed martial artist, kickboxer, and former boxer with multiple championships in all three disciplines.

As a mixed martial artist, he currently competes in the Middleweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the former UFC Middleweight Champion. In kickboxing, he is a former Glory Middleweight Championship title, challenger.

Adesanya made his professional debut in 2012, with a TKO win against James Griffiths. He scored another TKO win against John Vake, before taking a two-year hiatus from mixed martial arts.

In December 2017, it was announced that Adesanya had signed a contract with the UFC. He made his debut against Rob Wilkinson on 11 February 2018, at UFC 221.^[53] He won the fight via technical knockout in the second round.

Adesanya is widely regarded as one of the best strikers in mixed martial arts, both offensively and defensively. As of 23 August 2022, he is #2 in the UFC men’s pound-for-pound rankings.

Who defeated Israel Adesanya?

Nigeria’s Israel Adesanya lost his UFC Middleweight title after he was defeated by Brazilian Alex Pereira via a fifth-round TKO at UFC 281.

The former champion, riding on a 12-fight winning streak, was short of equaling the record for the longest winning streak in UFC middleweight history (13) held by the legend, Anderson Silva, before he was halted by the Brazilian knockout artist.

This marks the first time Adesanya has been defeated at middleweight and the first time he has been finished (knocked out or submitted) in his MMA career.

Spotting green trunks representing the Nigerian colours, Israel Adesanya started the fight well and got Pereira staggered but the Brazilian was saved by the end of the round buzzer.

Adesanya started the second round well with several leg kicks but Pereira was able to take them before landing a takedown which more or less sealed the second round for him.

The Last Stylebender came into the third round smoking and was able to secure a takedown right in the middle of the round, the first of his storied MMA career. Combined with extensive ground control time, Adesanya easily took the third round.

How many times has Adesanya lost?

Adesanya’s first loss in MMA came at the hands of Jan Blachowicz. Blachowicz had just captured the vacant light heavyweight title after beating Dominick Reyes via knockout in the second round. The former champion Jon Jones had left the division to challenge at heavyweight.

That was his only loss in MMA, but that wasn’t the only martial art Adesanya had practised. He was a renowned kickboxer in his own right and had an incredible record of 75-5. Of his five losses, four had come via decision, and he was knocked out once.

Alex Pereira of Brazil knocked him out after beating him once before via decision. Incidentally, that was also Adesanya’s last kickboxing fight before he moved to MMA.

Simon Marcus, Jason Wilnis, and Filip Verlinden were the other fighters who beat him. However, he did avenge his loss against Verlinden in his very next fight.