Israel Adesanya has been handed a medical suspension for six months, The PUNCH reports.

The Nigerian-born New Zealander suffered the first defeat of his professional career on Saturday night to Jan Blachowicz in Las Vegas.

As a result of the injuries Adesanya sustained against Blachowicz, it may take as long as September before he is cleared to fight again.

The 31-year-old will also undergo X-rays on his left foot and ankle to determine the level of damage sustained before knowing when he will return.

Meanwhile, Adesanya’s coach, Eugene Bareman, has refused to make any excuses for the 31-year-old after his bid to become a two-weight champion was brought to an abrupt end at UFC 259 by Blachowicz.

Bareman says Adesanya is “humble” about the defeat and insists the changes in preparation due to travel and COVID-19 safety protocol were not to blame for his loss. Speaking about Adesanya’s defeat, Bareman told Submission Radio, “No excuses. I think the training camp went well, and the lead-up to the fight week was brilliant.


“There are no excuses here. This is the thing, man, when you lose, it doesn’t happen in this sport nowadays, but sometimes you just lose and you just have to take it.

“And we are as a team internalising it, and we’re being humble about it and taking it like a loss, like you should do.

“It doesn’t happen enough in this sport. People kind of refuse to accept a loss, but we’re accepting it we’re looking to take what we can out of it.”


He also believes the defeat could be beneficial for Adesanya as it has not only taught him a lot, but heightened his “to get back in and fix some of the small details.”

“We’ve learned a lot, to be honest,” Bareman said of the Adesanya vs Blachowicz fight. “There’s not too much that I want to talk about, what we’ve learned, I always want to keep whatever edge that we have over everybody else, I don’t want to talk about too much what we’ve learned.”

Source https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/mma/israel-adesanya-hit-six-month-23645209.amp

do you know buhari will still be president till 2023

he needs time to fix himself up....e needs to b mentally and physically sharp before he can compete again to avoid another loss .

He shouldn't have taken Amala and Ewedu before the match, that poison slowed down his movement and made him stiff to receive several beatings from Blachowicz

Una don plan beat my brother ba.

In his first fight at light heavyweight, Adesanya ultimately lost a unanimous decision to reigning 205-pound champion Jan Blachowicz in the UFC 259 main event. While the fight was statistically close, Blachowicz closed out the fight with his two most dominant rounds where he spent the majority of the time controlling Adesanya on the ground after scoring a pair of takedowns.

Despite those shortcomings, Adesanya’s head coach Eugene Bareman said days later that the team had identified where they went wrong and with time and better preparation, they’d feel confident going into a rematch with Blachowicz. Add to that, Bareman also claimed that a super fight against Jones was still possible because ultimately it would be a huge payday for the longest reigning light heavyweight champion in UFC history.

Karlovych:
He shouldn't have taken Amala and Ewedu before the match, that poison slowed down his movement and made him stiff to receive several beatings from Blachowicz

SAY NO TO TRIBALISM.

Colectiii.....

Ok

That fight was a wrong one for me.
He went over board.Wish him quicker recovery.

He didn't look too damaged after the fight, time to enjoy his money. Dangerous time for him as he has not has this much time away from the sport since he started and i can only hope he doesn't get distracted. I can provide you with reliable laptop powerbank to out an end to your power needs.

BigDick70inch:
Well...........the guy above me is nothing but a complete fool............

U that doesn't take amala and ewedu.............does yo family's name a ring outta yo street??let alone yo village ehn

Or.........would u have preferred he feasted on human flesh like yo fellow nyanmiri yeebos from abia and ebonyi do?

Lalasticlala!!!!!!!!Are this worth front page?

This is exactly what the tribalistic tin wanted.
For you to retaliate and insult people from other tribes,
before others join in the e-war, in so doing,
he will bring the forum to disrepute.
Go through all his posts, not a single sensible post from him, he is only out to create unrest here, canceling people's post and posting porn images everywhere.
But unfortunately, you fell into his rubbish tribal bs.

Karlovych:
He shouldn't have taken Amala and Ewedu before the match, that poison slowed down his movement and made him stiff to receive several beatings from Blachowicz

You need to be lied against a bench, your hand tied and your bum bum trashed with holy canes

ObiOfOnistha:
You need to be lied against a bench, your hand tied and your bum bum trashed with holy canes

Na like dis dem MANNA dey flog all those Nairaland pikins with better cane of words.

We dey always line dem up according to their height and brain cells...

..

The beating bad gan be dat...

I still insist: Bro Adesanya was way above his league. He took the challenge out of his weight's category and straight to the very champion of the higher weight (not even one of the underdogs in the higher weights category o).

Thank God he loss here, else he may go ahead and even out of the UFC to challenge AJ and one punch fit be my brother's funeral

He should have remained within his weight category, overtime we have seen athletes suffer devastating defeats for stepping overboard.

Issorite

Break time for the champ

McLizbae:
I still insist: Mr Adesanya was way above his board. He took the challenge out of his weights category and straight to the very champion of the higher weight (not even one of the underdogs in the higher weights category).

Thank God he loss here, else he may go ahead and even out of UFC to challenge AJ and one punch fit be my brother's funeral

This is funny but true

BigDick70inch:
Well...........the guy above me is nothing but a complete fool............

U that doesn't take amala and ewedu.............does yo family's name a ring outta yo street??let alone yo village ehn

Or.........would u have preferred he feasted on human flesh like yo fellow nyanmiri yeebos from abia and ebonyi do?

Lalasticlala!!!!!!!!Are this worth front page?

Guy calm down. Little joke you don spark like electric come de mention tribe

post=99866742:

Na like dis dem MANNA dey flog all those Nairaland pikins with better cane of words.

We dey always line dem up according to their height and brain cells...

Exactly but that can is too big for that child, it is called improper fraction

Sorry Brother, get well soon.