Israel Adesanya is from Lagos, Nigeria. ... Adesanya and his family spent 10 months living in Ghana in 1999, but when he was 10 years old, they moved to Rotorua, New Zealand, ...

Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges in New Zealand, ESPN reported. “I want to apologize to the community, my family and my team for the ...

Israel Adesanya is an inherently private man in the most public of businesses. His job essentially requires him to strip down to his underwear and fight another man in front of the whole world ...

Israel Mobolaji Temitayo Odunayo Oluwafemi Owolabi Adesanya was born on July 22, 1989, in Lagos, Nigeria. As the eldest of five children in a middle-class family, he was deeply influenced by both ...

Israel Adesanya has taken a much-needed break from the Octagon following a difficult stretch in his career. After three ...

Israel Adesanya may get involved in some trash talk, but his rivalry with Dricus du Plessis has gotten extremely personal ahead of UFC 305 on August 17 in Perth, Australia. Adesanya, a two-time ...

His family moved to Rotorua, New Zealand, when he was 10. As of June 2025, he is 35 years old but will soon turn 36. Israel Adesanya’s height, reach, and weight ...

Adesanya said he "fights for his family," who migrated from Nigeria to New Zealand. "He touched a subject there because I do this for my family," Adesanya said through tears at the UFC 305 news ...

Israel Adesanya was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on 22 July 1989. Ten years later, he and his family moved to Ghana before eventually shifting to New Zealand.

Dricus Du Plessis gifts Israel Adesanya his South African jacket after UFC 305. Following his fourth-round submission victory, Dricus Du Plessis would look to bury the hatchet with ‘Stylebender ...

He needs time to be Israel Adesanya, family man and private citizen, much more now than he does to be Israel Adesanya, middleweight champion and UFC superstar. It would be no shock if the ...