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Video – Israel Adesanya, Kelvin Gastelum share wholesome embrace at UFC 290: ‘I’m so proud of you’

Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum share wholesome moment during a meeting at UFC290 this past weekend.

In the co-main event of UFC 236, Adesanya and Gastelum put on a thrilling and dramatic fight that would go on to win the UFC’s Fight of The Year award in 2019. Hurting one another throughout in a blood and guts war, Adesanya would eventually be crowned the winner after the 25 minutes concluded and would be award the interim middleweight title.

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Since then, the pairs careers have taken drastically different paths, Adesanya is now a two-time UFC champion and had defended his title five times before losing it to Alex Pereira.