Video captures the former middleweight champion taunting a man on the side of the road as they go back and forth in an apparent road rage incident.
It was all love towards Israel Adesanya in Africa during his visit to his home country of Nigeria. Now that he’s back in New Zealand, he’s having to deal with people being jerks to him again.
Adesanya couldn’t go anywhere in Lagos without drawing a massive crowd of adoring fans. In Auckland, they don’t care as much about mixed martial arts. To many of the citizens of the city, Adesanya is just some guy in a fancy car. Which may be why some random dude was willing to get into a back-and-forth yelling match with the former UFC champion on Thursday, September 5th.
In new video that just emerged on the internet hours ago, you can see Israel Adesanya standing outside his McLaren 720S Spider having an angry argument with an unknown individual.
Israel Adesanya spits on guy in road rage incident: ‘I dare you to try me!’ pic.twitter.com/1Sebr1oSM4
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“I get paid for this shit,” Adesanya says, seemingly turning down an offer to fight. “F— off.”
“That’s right, walk the f— away,” he adds moments later. “With your beat up f—ing s—. You f—ing b—h!”
“I dare you to try me,” he says as the man steps back up to him and flexes his arms.
There’s no indication of what started the altercation or how it ends. The person filming the video drives off before it ends, leading us to wonder if some dude just talked himself into a violent altercation with one of the biggest stars of the UFC.
At this point Adesanya hasn’t commented on the incident, but we’ll keep you informed as we learn more about this road rage incident from New Zealand.