Molly McCann has gifted middleweight champion Israel Adesanya a signed Alex Iwobi Everton shirt ahead of UFC 281 on Saturday night.
McCann is scheduled to face Erin Blanchfield on the preliminary card of tomorrow night’s event at Madison Square Garden in New York. The 32-year-old is looking to extend her already impressive three-fight winning streak.
The huge Everton supporter returns to the Octagon for the first time since UFC London in July where she beat Hannah Goldy via TKO in what was named Performance of the Night. Now, she takes on one of the rising stars of the company in the shape of Blanchfield.
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While Adesanya is looking to make his sixth title defence when he takes on long-time rival Alex Pereira. The pair fought twice before their time in the UFC, when they were both professional kickboxers.
Adesanya is the undisputed 185lb king, but he was famously knocked out so badly by Pereira in 2017 he needed oxygen. And when 'Meatball' bumped into Adesanya during fight week in New York City, she presented him with the shirt.
“I got you Alex Iwobi. So, he’s from your Nigerian soccer team and I got him to sign you that… I just thought a brother from where I am from supporting you,” McCann said.
And after the pair exchanged a hug, McCan explained what Everton’s motto, Nil satis nisi optimum, means to Adesanya, before he repeated what he had been told to the camera.
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