‘Maybe his time is up?: Matt Brown questions if Israel Adesanya is hitting an inevitable decline

Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images Israel Adesanya didn’t have a bad performance against Dricus du Plessis by any means at UFC 305, but he still left with his first submission loss while also suffering back-to-back defeats for the first time in his career.
Afterward, Adesanya shut down any notion that he was considering retirement and promised rather emphatically, “I’m not f*cking leaving.” Because he remains a stalwart at the top of the middleweight rankings with superstar