“[Then with the Derek] Brunson fight, I hurt my knee three weeks beforehand. I remember [my dad] saying, ‘Take five days off and just do nothing.’ It was really bad. I took five days off […] three weeks before the biggest fight of my life at [Madison Square Garden].
“It’s all part of the story. This is meant to happen. No one wants anything like this to happen, but if you can’t change your circumstances, change your perspective. So, I was like, ‘This has happened. This is my perspective. This was meant to happen. I’ll overcome this.’
“So, the comeback of getting from then to the cage was already a big win for me, because after doing that – because that was really f****** bad – I was like, ‘If I can get through that and get to the cage, this fight, I can get through it.’
“I was like, they can’t break me.”
Israel Adesanya (left) knocked out Alex Pereira in stunning fashion this month
Adesanya also shared footage of the moment in which he suffered his most recent injury, revealing that it occurred during a grappling exchange in sparring.
The middleweight champion is next expected to fight the winner of Robert Whittaker vs Dricus Du Plessis, which is scheduled for July.
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Adesanya took the middleweight title from Whittaker with a TKO win in 2019, before retaining the gold against the Australian on points last year.
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