The war of words between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira hasn’t stopped since both emerged victorious at UFC 276, but citing cartoons might not be enough to get into the Brazilian’s head.
After his latest defense of the UFC middleweight title, Adesanya proclaimed that Pereira was next and was “gonna get frozen like Elsa.” That led former UFC champion Jon Jones, who has traded barbs with Adesanya for years now, to wonder on Twitter: “How are you going to threaten a guy like Alex with glossy fingernails and a Frozen reference?”
Pereira experienced a similar response, though for different reasons.
Unlike Jones, Adesanya had no clue what Jones was talking about.
“I lived a rough life,” Pereira stated recently at The MMA Hour .. My childhood was interrupted by the fact that I started in a tire shop at 12,. I also didn’t have time to watch many movies, cartoons or series. You might ask me a question and I will not know the answer. I just tell you that I haven’t seen it. Some people will say I’m an arrogant person, but my childhood was different. Most of my childhood was busy with work and trying to help provide to my family.
“Sometimes I see [Adesanya] doing cartoon stuff that, to me, doesn’t make any sense, because I don’t even know who Frozen is. I’m not being arrogant, I’m not being ignorant — I just didn’t even know up until that point who Frozen was. If you’re going to freeze me, I guess it’s related to ice? I don’t know. I wasn’t getting it.
To put it simply, after previously defeating Adesanya twice in the kickboxing ring, Pereira isn’t buying into what the champ is trying to sell the MMA community.
“First, I don’t speak English. Pereira stated that even if I could speak English, my expression would still be blank. He said he’d make [the Jared Cannonier] fight seem easy, but he didn’t. “Goes there and it’s something else. I don’t Expectations are already set. It’s okay to be quiet and not speak. ‘Alex, are you going to knock him out?’ ‘No, I just wanna do a good fight.’ I go there and knock him out and people be like, ‘Damn, awesome.’ People start to see who Alex Pereira is.
“This Frozen stuff, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z — to me, makes no sense whatsoever. People who believe and understand the cartoon may be affected by it. He will freeze me just like the cartoon. Is he? But, how? I don’t know how he’s going to freeze me. Is he putting me in the fridge? Is that it? I’m not sure how the cartoon works .”
Although the UFC has not yet officially announced Pereira as Adesanya’s next competitor, the Brazilian fighter is optimistic that it will happen soon.
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