He’s a superstar in MMA and a champion in the UFC—yet that’s only half of Israel Adesanya’s story. The other half can be told through his incredible body of work.
Ten years after the original Ultimate Fighter television show put the UFC on the map, one of its cast members fell off. So … whatever happened to Jason Thacker, the quirky Canadian that trained out of the old abandoned truck stop?
Denver has been the “fun” upstart before, dating back to the first-round upset of the top-seeded Sonics. But to finally be taken seriously as a contender, it needs a win, not another atta boy, in Game 7.
On a given day, Brian Butler-Au, the founder and CEO of SuckerPunch Entertainment, will answer his phone a hundred times. It’ll be one of his company’s more than 200 fighters calling to get the status of something.
Of all the bold claims Dana White has made over the years, his “Nate Diaz isn’t a needle mover” comment has offered countless hours of comic relief to the more serious matters of the fight game. To use a Diaz-like expression, all he has to do is show up and people lose their shit.