First and foremost, i should be clear, i wholeheartedly believe Adesanya's gonna smoke him, but he saying stuff like:
- His charitable nature is the reason Sean's getting this fight at all.
- Sean should be thanking him for giving him a reason to leave the U.S. because he's a hillbilly
- If Sean talks during the fight, he's gonna break his jaw.
- The only reason Sean's got this fight is due to the fact he's been around for as long as he has.
My whole point isn't that Izzy can't say these things or that they're not true, it's that from a marketing perspective, Izzy is an idiot.
It's the same as the Du Plessis N-Bomb saga. Like, Dude? You're on the precipice of becoming a fucking superstar and instead, you're making yourself unmarketable.
I realize that this is the fight game and i'm going on about pussy image stuff, but Izzy is making himself thoroughly unlikeable, particularly against someone like Strickland, which is really saying something.