Why does Izzy try so hard to be an anime character?

[TerraRayzing]

I don't get it. He has good enough charisma and personality that he can be a star but then he goes off and pretends he's some super deep anime character.
There was this whole thing recently, on his YT channel, about how he envisions himself as a dragon whenever he takes a bath and he got an artist to paint his inner dragon.
And the press conference. He admitted it years ago that he grew up well off but now he went on and said that because his dad had to wake up at 4 for his job and his mom had to study to be a nurse... he had a tough life?
But the most anime thing he said was him breaking down his tears and sobbing about how he will fight forever for his family.
Why?
Is this his way of hyping himself up for fights or is he too big of an anime fan?

 

[justmark]

why not? Anime is the best visual medium ever created. The writing and the premises are way above anything the west has ever done. The west is too stupid to understand good art and intelligent writing.

 

[Dreyga_King of Sherbums]

People’s lives are complicated and fans on the internet rarely know the whole story.

There was a reason his parents left Nigeria. That was to give their children better opportunities.

When his parents got to New Zealand all of their degree didn’t transfer. They had to go back to school. So Adesanya at young age had to work a cleaner with his father to support his mother through nursing school

His family want through their fair share of hardship. People are just ignorant

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

He wants to be a Dragon , I want to be rich like Elon. To each his own.

 

[World eater]

why not? Anime is the best visual medium ever created. The writing and the premises are way above anything the west has ever done. The west is too stupid to understand good art and intelligent writing.

Are you a comic relief character?

 

[runjay]

Demons. And not the fake gay ones therapists talk about. No. Actual demons.

 

[priester]

Weebs out

 

[J'Ghasta]

idk but he has severe main character syndrome

 

[Bork Neslar]

He likes to be followed like fat nerds who watch that childlish crap.

 

[Bork Neslar]

*by fat nerds

 

[SkinnyClaw]

Life is hard for everyone, not just poor people. Being rich has its own different challenges. I'm sure he had a hard time with racism too. Anime is an easy escape for kids who are lonely, bullied, etc. I actually feel sad for people who can't understand such a simple thing

 

[Iroh]

Bruh, he just really likes that culture, so he will act it out. That's what people with confidence do. They do what they like, even if others will think it's weird/cringe/uncool/lame/stupid/etc. if you have confidence in yourself, you don't care to seek validation from others. You find validation in the fact that you think it's cool, so the disapproval from others doesn't have the same effect as with the people worried about it being cringe, etc.

That doesn't mean Izzy doesn't have insecurities too. But being able to kick basically anybody's ass you meet comes with a certain confidence that's hard to understand for many people. People are complex. They aren't either insecure or confident. You can be extremely confident in one area, and extremely insecure in another, and just moderately one or the other in the next area. Or maybe even in the same area you can be very confident in certain situations but not at all confident in other situations.

Izzy is clearly not super confident in his identity when it comes to ethnicity/race/nationality, but you shouldn't let that influence your image of him too much.

I'm going a bit on a tanget here. It's not all directly directed at the OP. I just know how many on here think about this kind of stuff.

 

[Matt Brown's Elbow]

*by fat nerds

You know you can edit comments right?

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

why not? Anime is the best visual medium ever created. The writing and the premises are way above anything the west has ever done. The west is too stupid to understand good art and intelligent writing.

Nice copypasta

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

Is this his way of hyping himself up for fights or is he too big of an anime fan?

Maybe both?

He seems like a guy who tries to manipulate the perceptions of others, too much too often and forgets about reality.

 

[Thy]

maybe he likes anime

 

[BJJ4Tone]

Anime is the best visual medium ever created.

 

[TommyBikes]

Anime is weird

 

[GiganticMeat]

So that's what I've been doing wrong ... I usually envision myself shitposting on sherdog when I take a bath.... Sometimes I even think about nothing in particular. Meanwhile Izzy's out there becoming a dragon every time he takes a bath. Next level stuff

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For real though, as @Iroh said, there's nothing really wrong with most of Israel's in-cage/fighter persona. I just really hope he knocks off the racism stuff personally. That's a bad look.

 

[JustforBROCK]

why not? Anime is the best visual medium ever created. The writing and the premises are way above anything the west has ever done. The west is too stupid to understand good art and intelligent writing.

Yes because 'ITS OVER 9000' is fucking oscar worthy.