The thing about predicting legacy, talking trash and swaggering around the cage is that it’s all good when you’re putting on a show and all bad when the show falls flat. UFC 248 was what Israel Adesanya wanted, what he asked for. He ran straight for the middleweight division’s bogeyman, Yoel Romero, a fight that he said was selected exactly because it was the scariest thing he could do, a match that would help define his history.
In retrospect, it will probably be one he skips past when he considers his career’s greatest hits.