Israel Adesanya thinks Mexico will dominate the MMA scene within the years to come back.
On September 14, Mexican Independence Day will take over Sphere in Las Vegas for a UFC occasion not like some other within the historical past of fight sports activities. 10 whole fights are scheduled for UFC 306, formally often known as Riyadh Season Noche UFC.
In the primary occasion of the night, ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley will defend his bantamweight belt towards the division’s top-ranked contender, Merab Dvalishvili. Earlier than that, Guadalajara native and reigning flyweight girls’s champion Alexa Grasso will look to shut her trilogy with Valentina Shevchenko on a excessive observe as she meets ‘Bullet’ for a 3rd consecutive time.
The occasion will even characteristic a slew of Mexican expertise who hope to in the future convey UFC gold to their residence nation.
Throughout his preview of the second annual Noche UFC occasion, former two-time middleweight titleholder Israel Adesanya praised the expertise already popping out of Mexico and believes it’s only a matter of time earlier than the nation’s athletes take over blended martial arts.
“That from boxing, numerous children who would have possibly gone into boxing would begin doing MMA and never simply doing kickboxing or Jiu-Jitsu, like MMA as an entire after which it’s going to be, in a number of generations you’ll see like a wave of Mexican fighters who’ve that Mexican spirit,” Adesanya stated on YouTube. “You’ll see them like simply dominating the UFC. May very well be, who is aware of what number of generations however sort of is already occurring slowly.”
Israel Adesanya assured UFC 306 will ship some ‘Loopy fights’
Closing his ideas, ‘The Final Stylebender’ believes this weekend’s history-making card in Las Vegas will see the preventing spirit synonymous with Mexican fighters on full show.
“I sit up for it. I like seeing Mexicans, like I believe even with this card, it’s going to convey that spirit. I believe you’re going to see some loopy fights, some actually loopy fights simply cuz the essence of Mexican preventing” (h/t MMA Information).
The complete UFC 306 card is as follows:
Essential Card (ESPN+ PPV)
Sean O’Malley(c) vs. Merab Dvalishvili – Bantamweight Championship
Alexa Grasso(c) vs. Valentina Shevchenko – Flyweight Championship
Brian Ortega vs. Diego Lopes
Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zellhuber
Ode Osbourne vs. Ronaldo Rodriguez
Prelims (ESPN Information/ESPN+)
Irene Aldana vs. Norma Dumont
Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Manuel Torres
Yazmin Jauregui vs. Ketlen Souza
Joshua Van vs. Edgar Chairez
Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Aoriqileng
