While talking about the toughness of his opponent, Yoel Romero, Israel Adesanya used a remark about 9/11 that got him in a bit of hot water with some people.
“He’s human like anyone else,” Adesanya said about Romero. “And everyone likes to make this myth about, ‘Oh, he’s steel, like kicking steel,’ or you hit him and he doesn’t fall. I’ll touch him enough times. I’ll touch him enough times and eventually he’ll crumble like the Twin Towers.”
Soon after people reacted to his comments, Adesanya took to social media to apologize.
“I never made a joke about people dying or made light of the tragic event that was 9/11,” Adesanya wrote.