{"id":199799,"date":"2020-03-08T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=199799"},"modified":"2020-03-08T17:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T16:48:55","slug":"ufc-israel-adesanya-retains-title-after-defeating-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=199799","title":{"rendered":"UFC: Israel Adesanya Retains Title After Defeating Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/UFC-Israel-Adesanya-Retains-Title-After-Defeating-Romero.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Israel Adesanya retained his middleweight title in a frustrating, bizarre unanimous decision over Yoel Romero to close out a wild UFC 248 card in Las Vegas, United States, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The judges scored the fight 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46 \u2013 all for Adesanya. <\/p>\n<p>The Last Stylebender runs his undefeated record to 19-0 and solidifies himself as the best middleweight on the planet. <\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old added one of the scariest fighters in the division to a list of victims that already includes Anderson Silva, Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum. <\/p>\n<p>Adesanya&#8217;s ascent to UFC stardom has been drastic. <\/p>\n<p>He made his UFC debut in February 2018 and has skyrocketed to impressive champion in 2020. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Israel Adesanya retained his middleweight title in a frustrating, bizarre unanimous decision over Yoel Romero to close out a wild UFC 248 card in Las Vegas, United States, on Saturday. The judges scored the fight 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46 \u2013 all for Adesanya. The Last Stylebender runs his undefeated record to 19-0 and solidifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14467],"class_list":["post-199799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-israel-adesanya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}