For as high as Israel Adesanya was in 2023 when he regained his UFC middleweight title via dramatic second-round knockout in his immediate rematch with rival Alex Pereira, the past three years have been anything but kind to "The Last Stylebender." Adesanya (24-5), a 36-year-old native of Nigeria who fights out of New Zealand, is shockingly riding a three-fight losing skid in which he, while alternating flashes of the brilliance that once made him among the most dynamic strikers in MMA history, has looked flat and occasionally uninterested in ways that have questioned whether his drive and durability are still intact. In the main event of UFC Fight Night in Seattle on Saturday, the...
