Jon Jones roasts Israel Adesanya’s performance against Yoel Romero at UFC 248

A lot of UFC fans were seen disapproving of  UFC 248 main event featuring Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero fight. Both Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero stood still for almost 15 minutes during 20-minute-long fight. In end, Israel Adesanya won via a split decision. Recently, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones reacted to Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero fight. Jon Jones slammed his Twitter rival Israel Adesanya and said 42-year-old almost won fight without even wrestling much.

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UFC 248: Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero: Israel Adesanya retains title

42-year-old 'Soldier of God' successfully disarmed current middleweight champion Israel Adesanya few times during fight at UFC 248. However, Israel Adesanya delivered many series of kicks to Yoel Romero throughout fight. fight was heavily booed throughout by T-Mobile Arena crowd for a lack of action. After fifth round, judges decided scored 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46 in favour of Israel Adesanya.

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UFC 248: Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero: Yoel Romero slams Israel Adesanya

After fight, both Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero blamed each or for slow pace of fight. Israel Adesanya said Yoel Romero was standing still throughout fight while guarding himself. He said Yoel Romero never came forward to attack, so, he had to take a risk and attack Yoel Romero, which left him open. Yoel Romero, on or hand, said that he was standing still so that Israel Adesanya could come and start a brawl.  

"I wanted him to stand and trade with me but he was scared to fight," Romero said.

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