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Israel Adesanya has only been knocked out once in his combat sports career. The man who achieves that feat, Alex Pereira, is Adesanya’s opponent this Saturday in the main event of UFC 281.
Pereira owns two kickboxing victories against Adesanya, but the one that is receiving the most attention is his knockout victory in March 2017. Despite keeping Pereira on the back foot, Adesanya ate a walk-off left hook that night. A half-decade later, with Adesanya running through the middleweight division, that KO is the reason for this title bout.
