Just how badly does Israel Adesanya want to get his hands on Dricus Du Plessis and why? Racially charged comments by the UFC middleweight champion have made it very clear.
“I’m going to f*cking take him to school in the octagon and on history. What he’s doing is creating divide.” Adesanya said in a video posted to his FreestyleBender YouTube channel on Wednesday. “You can’t know your history – I have never questioned him as an African because, yeah, you were born in Africa, South Africa, of course you’re an African. I’ve never questioned that. But who the f*ck is this cracker to tell me who the f*ck I am, who the f*ck Kamaru is, who the f*ck Ngannou is. I’m like, ‘Are you dumb?’ As a product of colonization, you’re trying to tell me who the f*ck I am. You could take the boy out of Africa, but you could never take the Africa out of the boy.
