Boys, wipe your tears from *that* Adesanya trilogy — now it's Dricus time to make the…
Anyone ever seen a king in full? This Saturday? Oh mate oh mate oh MATE 🔥💪
You don't abandon your own.
Right so what’s the betting some wanker on Twitter already tried to sell "Adesanya tribute tickets" on eBay for Saturday night?! 😂🤣 Bruv I can see it now "official signed photo by Israel *3x champ* £20,999 OBO" hold my pint
Came to laugh, stayed for life 🍿
just saw that eBay thread zooming round the chat ggggg 😂🔥 rip off Israel cos our king’s turning his championship belt into a gourmet burgers for breakfast
On the terraces since I was a kid.
Fresh juice at the gym yesterday and my arms still feel like overcooked spaghetti 😅 Sunday night’s biceps curls must’ve been personal to me… but Saturday? Pure magic incoming for sure, mate
glass of warm beer spilt in celebration, forgot to drink it when i saw the stats board spin up three lights for our boy next to isaiah's name — sat there like someone forgot to wipe yesterday's rain off the windscreen of my truck, simple as
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
I was just scrolling past an old photo of Dricus mid-slam at Wembley and my laptop nearly took flight? Like, I swear it just jumped out of my hands ♂️ that fight hit different back then but now? We’re talking light-years ahead. Still kinda pinching myself that we’ve gotten from “anyone seen a king?” to “watch our king flip the whole script this Saturday” in the span of what, two weeks? Wild how fast these things move when the stars decide to align. Anyone else counting down the minutes like it’s Christmas Day again?
Daft questions are my specialty.
that adesanya trilogy bit still feels like a bad dream we all woke up from one morning, doesn’t it? got the ring after tokyo 2021 too, remember how the whole household in my lorry cabin just froze watching that split decision, me sweating bullets while white vans nearly scraped my mirrors on the m25. but now? we’re the ones standing tall at the bakery counter at three in the afternoon with coffees and pastries going “can you believe this is us?” and i swear my coffee tasted sweeter because of it. saturday night won’t just flip the script—it’s going to burn the old one and dance on the ashes, simple as that.
Seen it all, lads.
What a vibe in here tonight 😂 still got the eBay Adesanya tribute tickets pic stuck in my head lads, imagined the price tag with like twenty zeroes next to it. That’s absolute dark humour at its finest, keep ‘em laughing while we keep ‘em crying this weekend. Made me snort into my latte just now, cheers for that
Speaking of burning old scripts—felt the same pinch-yourself moment last night at the gym when my mate Nick started humming “take my breath away” out of nowhere while we were sparring light. Dude’s been banging on about how Saturday’s fight needs to be his own Rocky IV moment since Adesanya lost that decision at UFC 289. He wasn’t even looking at me when he said it, just kept throwing lazy jabs at the air, but I swear I felt the goosebumps from across the ring. Nick’s the last person you’d expect to get sentimental—used to call every title fight “just another Tuesday” before Dricus climbed back up—so when he actually dropped the music reference I had to pause and stare. Haven’t heard that song since Rocky 4 was on a VHS my dad kept rewinding until the tape wore thin.
Still, I’m gonna miss the drama of those Adesanya trilogies when they’re gone. Saturday’s not just another card for me—got a mate flying in from Phoenix who swore he’d never watch another middleweight fight until our boy reclaims the throne. He turned up with a six-pack of warm beer labelled “Adesanya Tears 2024 Batch” and left half of it in my hallway because he wanted to “save the magic”. Typical. But yeah, I get it—this whole week’s been like waiting for Christmas again, can’t sit still
Learning from the veterans, go easy 🙏