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I also saw this news and I confess that when I was reading this news I even thought it was a bad combination, but then I started looking at things from another angle, what if WWE athletes were to start fighting for real without acting but it would be a fight following the rules of wrestling? no doubt this would be something very innovative that would attract attention even from people who like real fights, those moves that wrestling guys do, if it's a real fight without staging, we could see the fights at a very high level, something completely different from what we have already seen. the referee would be someone serious, the judges would also be someone serious, the winners could be decided by knockout and jury decision
Like actors acting in war movies participating in real war

. Let them do their thing acting out the moves and if they are exceptional talents then they will cross over to the real world like Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley without any contract barriers because they are legit MMA fighters but the problem is that age is not on their side.
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I think Adesanya Fans really wanted to see him perform well and surprise the audiences about how he gonna handle this fight. But his problem is Pereira will already know exactly what he gonna do and can predict his movement easily. If Adesanya won't change his fighting style, this upcoming fight will be in favor of Pereira and it might be that the result of this fight is the same as the last one.
Israel Adesanya needs to win this fight if he ever wants to become the champion and break the curse of getting defeated by Alex Pereira in any combat sports.
Pereira can easily dodge and take Adesanya's punches as if it's nothing and that's just how he is always caught by surprise because there wasn't any opponent who can do that against him before. He really needs to win this fight in order to regain back his honor.
In the first fight Alex Pereira got into serious trouble in the first round and if there was a few seconds left, Israel Adesanya would have knocked him out, the bell helped him that time. Alex is a world class striker and it will be a striking battle.