Do you consider that a humiliating loss for Israel Adesanya?

[Steve Fox]

Humbling. Not humiliating.

 

[JustOnce]

No one was calling Sean 'high-level' when this fight was announced. It's an embarrassing loss.

"High-level" is a subjective term. Sean is 28-5, but boring and not likable.

 

[Simple Southerner]

Hell yes. You know Izzy is thinking how tf did I lose to this scrub.

 

[pseto223]

No. He fought to the end, tried till the end.

An embarrassing loss is like Nunes quitting against Pena, or Ben Askrew getting ktfo by Paul for big money and all smiles right after.

No shame in losing to a high level opponent.

Nunes went out on her shield berserking, while Adesanya was playing Kaleb Starnes for 5 rounds.

 

[old school 2]

No. He fought to the end, tried till the end.

An embarrassing loss is like Nunes quitting against Pena, or Ben Askrew getting ktfo by Paul for big money and all smiles right after.

No shame in losing to a high level opponent.

When you talk huge smack before the fight and run away like a little bitch it is incredibly humiliating. Izzy didn’t even do the post fight press conference. The only thing that fight was missing is Sean shooting the 3 imaginary arrows at the end.

 

[Gas121]

In the sense that nobody gave Strickland much of a shot and dominated the fight handily. I guess so.

Nobody expected Izzy to look out his depth here. Crazy stuff

 

[dominion]

All these snarky windbags get humbled. Lesner, Woodley, Usman, aljo.... Jones better avoid Tom and Sergei at all costs.

 

[JustOnce]

This is wrong.

Strickland is good of course, but never championship caliber and was a big underdog and a replacement fighter in this card so that Izzy could headline.

It was definitely a terrible loss.

It def was a terrible loss, but the question was whether it was a humiliating one. It wasn't.

 

[The Legendary Scarface]

It was the definitive end of him ever having a chance to surpass Anderson imo.

THIS.

I don't ever want to hear anyone mentioning Izzy and Anderson in the same sentence.

 

[NoSmilez]

It is bad performance. Australia is sort of his hometown. He even flew in his kung fu instructor for this fight. Israel couldn't get going in this fight. I thought he would try to clinch to steal rounds or poke for weaknesses. He couldn't make any adjustments at all.

 

[Andy 93]

He got completely dismantled for 5 rounds by someone he thought was a clown.

 

[Motivated BJ Penn]

Nah not really. Two elite fighters in there.

Humiliating is like Tyron Woodley getting flatlined by Jake Paul.

I would say in this case, getting flatlined like that would be less humiliating. Even if the fight was stopped as TKO in the 2nd round, Adesanya and his team would write it off as a fluke.

But Izzy got exposed and beat at his own game. He got beat by skill, not by brute strength

 

[LiQuiD42]

He got walked down and beat up buy a guy who is a lot better than people believe. The dog incident, all the trash talk of him saying he would make it look easy to beat Sean. It’s embarrassing. He is now 1-2 in his last 3. He’s not looking so invincible for a champion now.

 

[Area809]

Anytime you lose convincingly to an opponent you’re supposed to beat, it’s embarrassing. This was supposed to be a record padding fight, as opposed to an upset.

 

[JustOnce]

Nunes went out on her shield berserking, while Adesanya was playing Kaleb Starnes for 5 rounds.

Nunes is a quitter in my book.
Izzy is not.

 

[JustOnce]

When you talk huge smack before the fight and run away like a little bitch it is incredibly humiliating. Izzy didn’t even do the post fight press conference. The only thing that fight was missing is Sean shooting the 3 imaginary arrows at the end.

Izzy was hurt enough, three more imaginary arrows might have been unsafe for him, lmao.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

He fucking said he was going to KTFO Strickland..

Yeah.. That’s embarrassing as fuck. Considering there was no time in that fight that Izzy was trying to end it. 50 fucking leg kicks. What a clown.

 

[Cat Biscuits]

Yes, but not because Sean is a "bum" fighter like some people say.

It's because he outclassed the supposed greatest striker in the division. "Better than Anderson Silva."

 

[Stump]

People talking as if betting odds, which fighters have no control over, have any bearing on the fight itself.

JDS was a huge dog against Werdum.
Werdum was a huge dog against Fedor.
Lauzon was a huge dog against Pulver.
Moreno was a huge dog against Figuereido.
Edgar was a huge dog against Penn.

And the list goes on. The betting odds doesn't define the fight nor the fighter. The lopsided odds doesn't define how good the fighter is, it just reflects public perception of the fight

Interesting. Now make a list of the tines when the heavy favourite won.

 

[Asahi]

Undoubtedly. And let's not forget he personally asked for Strickland.