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Paulo Costa Calls Out Robert Whittaker

Paulo Costa is looking to get straight back into title contention by taking on former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker who is fresh off another big win at UFC 254 this past weekend. Costa suffered his first career loss at the hands of Israel Adesanya late last month. The Brazilian knockout artist was seen by many […]

Paulo Costa is looking to get straight back into title contention by taking on former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker who is fresh off another big win at UFC 254 this past weekend.

Costa suffered his first career loss at the hands of Israel Adesanya late last month. The Brazilian knockout artist was seen by many as a true test for ‘Stylebender’ who made his second defence of the 185lb title he took from Whittaker.

On the night Adesanya made it look easy, taking out Costa inside two rounds and adding to Costa’s shame with his post-fight celebrations. ‘Borrachinha’ has spent lots of time campaigning for a rematch with Adesanya post-fight but now seems to have abandoned that idea, switching his attention to ‘The Reaper’

Whittaker scored an impressive unanimous decision win over Jared Cannonier in Abu Dhabi on Saturday to cement his place as the number one contender middleweight contender. The Aussie got his second straight wins against ‘The Killa Gorilla’ after previously beating Englishman Darren Till on Yas Island earlier this year to bounce back from his crushing defeat to Adesanya in 2019.

UFC President Dana White seemed keen to see Whittaker rematch Adesanya after the Ultimate Fighter winner impressed in a second straight fight. However, Costa has other ideas and would like to face off against Whittaker before he gets another shot at ‘Stylebender’.

“Hey Robert Whittaker enjoy your end of year, you deserved. When you come back we can do amazing fight,” Costa wrote on social media.

Hey Robert Whittaker enjoy your end of year, you deserved. When you come back we can do amazing fight

— Paulo Costa ( Borrachinha ) (@BorrachinhaMMA) October 25, 2020

Whittaker is due to take some well deserved time off from fighting as he prepares to welcome another child later this year. It appears when he does eventually return to the Octagon ‘The Reaper’ will have plenty of big-name opponents to choose from.

Would you prefer to see Robert Whittaker fight Paulo Costa or Israel Adesanya next?

Israel Adesanya Doesn’t Expect Costa Rematch: ‘I Don’t Think I Ever See Him Again’

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya doesn’t expect to ever run it back with Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa. ‘Stylebender’ eased by Costa in the UFC 253 main event last month. The 185lb king needed just two rounds to pick up the win and defend his title for the second time. Since the fight, Costa has […]

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya doesn’t expect to ever run it back with Brazilian knockout artist Paulo Costa.

‘Stylebender’ eased by Costa in the UFC 253 main event last month. The 185lb king needed just two rounds to pick up the win and defend his title for the second time. Since the fight, Costa has been angrily pursuing a rematch but Adesanya doubts it will ever come to fruition and advised his rival to let it go.

“I don’t think I ever see him again to be honest,” Adesanya told MMA Fighting. “I think this is going to be like Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo. He has to let it go. I’ve done it to him. I’ve embarrassed him. He just has to accept it and realize ‘my mouth wrote checks my ass couldn’t cash and Israel likes to collect.’ It happened and let it go. So that’s my advice to him cause that’s what I did.”

Adesanya went on to talk about his approach to suffering losses during his career, namely his KO defeat to Alex Pereira. He advised Costa to adopt a similar mindset if he wants to keep evolving as a fighter.

“Even [if] I knock him [Pereira] out if he comes to the UFC, it’s never going to erase what happened,” Adesanya said. “It already happened. You just have to accept it and move on, which is the advice I give Paulo. You’re never going to get this one back. If by some crazy miracle or work ethic he does come up in the rankings again, he can’t unf*ck himself, you know what I mean?

“I never really looked to go chase any losses that I’ve had back,” Adesanya explained. “I’ve gotten a few back in the past but that’s just cause they came up and I was like right, this is my chance at redemption but I’m fine with where I’m at. So he has to be all right with where he’s at and move on.”

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Anthony Johnson Buries Paulo Costa In Social Media Exchange

The soon to return light-heavyweight knockout artist, Anthony Johnson has landed a concussive blow to middleweight contender Paulo Costa via social media. ‘Rumble’ who is due to return to the Octagon in 2021 was critical of Costa in the aftermath of UFC 253. The 36-year-old ripped the Brazilian for his attitude before, during, and after […]

“Stylebender was serious, Costa came in thinking that he’s just a white belt, he’s nothing, he’s skinny,” Johnson continued. “Hey, being skinny has its advantages, dude. I don’t understand all of a sudden either why Costa is getting so upset after he saw what Stylebender did to him, you know? I was like ‘Dude, you were the one talking so much and then he gets you at the end and now you mad? Because he embarrassed you? Come on man, grow some balls. Man up to that.’ It is what it is. You can’t demand a rematch either after a performance like that either. That’s not smart. That’s not gonna sell for sure.”

Two weeks later and Costa has responded to Johnson, telling him to shut up and taking jabs at his frequent weight changes.

“Anthony Rumble Johnson shut up moron you even don’t know which weight class you should fight,” Costa wrote on social media.

‘Rumble’ quickly fired back at Costa, mocking the middleweight contender about the humping celebration he is so made about and warning Costa that he isn’t someone to attack online.

“I don’t do the talking back and forth but the last BBC you did that to fucked your ass at the end DOGGY STYLE. Now your name is LOOSE BOOTY You must want missionary next by me? I respect you but make sure you know your role… I’m not the 1 kid,” Johnson wrote on Twitter.

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Israel Adesanya Doesn’t Expect To Rematch Paulo Costa Ever, Compares It To McGregor-Aldo

Israel Adesanya doesn’t expect to fight Paulo Costa ever again. In the main event of UFC 253, Adesanya and Costa finally met in one of the most anticipated fights of 2020. Both men were undefeated and UFC president, Dana White thought it would be…

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Israel Adesanya Believes ‘Homophobia’ Led To Overreactions Over UFC 253 Celebration

Israel Adesanya believes homophobia played a major role as to why so many people were angry over his UFC 253 celebration. After Adesanya TKO’d Costa to defend his belt, he humped the Brazilian as he got off him which caused Costa to be very mad a…

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Derek Brunson Calls For Clash With Paulo Costa At UFC 256

Streaking middleweight contender, Derek Brunson has called his next shot. In the midst of an eye-catching run – the North Carolina native has issued a callout to recent division title challenger, Paulo ‘The Eraser’ Costa for UFC 256 on December 12th. Riding a three-fight winning run – the 35-year-old most recently headlined UFC Fight Night […]

Riding a three-fight winning run – the 35-year-old most recently headlined UFC Fight Night Vegas 5 on short-notice on August 1st. – bumped up to the headlining slot. Matching with division prospect, Edmen Shahbazyan, Brunson scored quite the upset win with an early third-round knockout victory.

The triumph marked Brunson’s third in the last eighteen months, following decision triumphs opposite former UFC feature, Elias Theodorou, and one-time interim LFA middleweight champion, Ian Heinisch.

For Costa, the Belo Horizonte striker took main event honours of his own at UFC 253, challenging for his first title in the promotion – opposite rival, Israel ‘The Last Stylebender’ Adesanya. In a largely disappointing performance, Costa dropped a second-round knockout after a counter left hook and subsequent ground-and-pound from Adesanya. The defeat marked the Brazilian’s first professional blemish in thirteen outings.

Yesterday evening, Brunson took to his official Twitter account, calling for a pairing with Costa at the December 12th. event – mentioning his manager, Ali Abdelaziz – as well as promotional leader, Dana White, and matchmaker, Mick Maynard.

“Has anyone seen or heard from @BorrachinhaMMA. Someone ask him if he’s available Dec 12! @AliAbdelaziz00 @Mickmaynard2 @danawhite “

A twenty-eight fight veteran, Brunson, who has competed for the likes of Strikeforce, and WEF before his move to the UFC, has notched high-profile career wins over names such as Chris Leben, Lorenz Larkin, Sam Alvey, common-foe, Uriah Hall, Dan Kelly, and former light heavyweight gold holder, Lyoto Machida.

Following his elimination from The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3 – Costa has scored victories over the likes of former welterweight titleholder, Johny Hendricks, the above noted, Hall – as well as his title earning a victory over multiple-time title challenger, Yoel Romero.

Taking headlining honours at UFC 256 on December 12th. – welterweight titleholder, Kamaru Usman looks to score his third straight title defence, when he welcomes streaking contender, Gilbert Burns. In the night’s co-headliner as part of our championship doubleheader, two-weight world champion, Amanda Nunes takes on Megan Anderson in a featherweight title clash.