"I wanted to be animator when I was growing up, I still will, I will have my own production company after fighting, and I will hire people who will actually bring my vision to life," Adesanya said.
Whatever the case, the world of Japanese anime and cartoons is anything but a passing obsession for the 29-year-old middleweight. Maybe it's an irresistible open-handed palm to the chest? Just how Adesanya perfects the Rasengan in the future will be worth watching, given its composition as a spinning ball of Chakra. I'm yet to display it in the Octagon, but, eventually, maybe in this fight or the next, I will deaden someone with one of those Sakura punches. But, Sakura, she has a really strong punch. "I blurred the lines between reality and fantasy I am that line: The Last Stylebender. "You see me try some I've seen in cartoons or video games and I'll pull it out in the Octagon because, I don't know, I can do it," Adesanya said. Having first fine-tuned his arsenal throughout Australasia, he eventually stepped up to the UFC in February last year and has since won a perfect five from five fights, including two victories by TKO.įrom the moment he enters the Octagon to when he summons an opponent closer, just as he did Anderson Silva in Melbourne back in February, it's clear just how the fictional has found its way into Adesanya's reality, even if some sequences are still to be refined. "But they're real for me and it's all about what's in here, what you feel in here and I can relate to those guys more than I can to some of the great leaders of our time."Īdesanya has swept all before him inside the Octagon over the last 14 months. I draw strength from characters that aren't even "real", quote unquote, because they're animated.
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"His ninja code could never be broken and I really respect that not just him but a few other characters like Rock Lee and Shino, Akamaru or Shikamaru a lot of them.
"Where do I start? Naruto is just a kid - you can't even make this a long story, short - but he's a kid who inspires me based on the way he was brought up and his will-power his will-power really inspired me, and his morals that he has for his friends and his family, and his code. So who is Naruto exactly? Is he more in the Street Fighter or Dragonball Z mould? I took breaks in between, but it was like four years to watch 720 episodes with, I think it was six or seven movies, so it was a long time. Sitting down with ESPN ahead of his UFC 236 showdown with American Kelvin Gastelum , Adesanya opened up on his love of anime and cartoons, the story of Naruto in particular, and how he had drawn strength from the fictional Japanese ninja and turned it into an unbeaten UFC record.
Inside the Octagon, the Nigerian-born New Zealander is just two wins away from perfecting his art, in the middleweight division anyway, and becoming a UFC champion.īut there is still so much more to be done when it comes to one of his other great passions, and truly living what it means to be "The Last Stylebender". For UFC middleweight contender Israel Adesanya, that's still very much a work in progress. How Israel Adesanya embraces Japanese anime in the UFC
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