Adesanya on Du Plessis: 'He lives behind the f****** gates of his privileged life in South Africa...'
It's been almost a year since we've seen the former UFC Middleweight Champion, who took the longest layoff of his career following his title loss to Sean Strickland at UFC 293. The belt's changed hands in Adesanya's time away with du Plessis becoming South Africa's first UFC Champion.
"Did those belts ever go to Africa? As far as I know, it came to America and New Zealand," du Plessis said of Nigerian-born champs Kamaru Usman and Adesanya at UFC 285 media day. "I'm gonna take a belt to Africa. I'm the African fighter in the UFC. Myself and Cameron , we breathe the African air. We wake up in Africa every day. We train in Africa. We African born. We're African raised. We still reside in Africa. We train out of Africa.
"Someone like Francis who had to cross the desert to go overseas to go train. You can't call him not a real African champion because he didn't train in Africa. I was like, bro, are you f****** kidding?" Adesanya said of du Plessis' remarks. "The guy got sent back out to the desert 6, 7 times to go die, and he survived."
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