If there’s one thing we’ve learned from watching him on social media, it’s that if you’re going to come at Israel Adesanya, you’d better be ready for a comeback.
The newly minted UFC middleweight champion did exactly that after a Twitter gibe from light heavyweight king Jon Jones.
Jones took exception to comments from Adesanya’s coach, Eugene Bareman, who said he didn’t want to “give a person of Jon’s nature” the opportunity to fight his student, tweeting the clip from Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show with the comment: “I formally release DC as being my (expletive), Izzy now takes the throne.”
Adesanya decided to fire back, and it seems he had his ammunition all lined up and ready to go.
After posting a pic of Jones’ tweet with an accompanying line saying “You can be such a pervert sometimes …,” Adesanya then went after Jones in a series of posts.
One, showing a sports car, carried the caption: “Feelin’ cute… Might crash into a pregnant lady later”.
In another, he posted a short video message accusing Jones of hiding from USADA’s drug testers.
“See, for me, I used to sleep in the gym under the cage to save on gas money so I didn’t have to go home and come back,” he said. “You hid under the cage to hide from USADA … allegedly.”
If Jones was ever looking for a new rival to duel with, it seems he has found one. And with the pair firing shots at each other over social media, the calls for the duo to eventually meet and settle things inside the octagon may soon become too loud to ignore.
The question is, will the fight ever happen?
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Israel Adesanya claps back at Jon Jones with Twitter salvo: 'I got time today!'
