After leaping up seven spots to take his place within the middleweight prime 5, Caio Borralho believes a battle towards former two-time titleholder Israel Adesanya ought to be subsequent.
On Saturday night time, ‘The Natural’ extended his unbeaten streak to 16 and surged up in direction of the highest of the 185-pound rankings with an distinctive efficiency towards Jared Cannonier within the UFC Vegas 96 headliner.
With the win, Borralho now finds himself surrounded by some severely gifted firm, together with fellow top-fivers Nassourdine Imavov, Robert Whittaker, Israel Adesanya, and Sean Strickland.
Already looking forward to his subsequent problem contained in the Octagon, Borralho thinks {that a} scrap with ‘The Final Stylebender’ may very well be his greatest path to an eventual title battle with reigning middleweight world champion Dricus Du Plessis.
“I believe Adesanya is likely to be one of the best battle for me proper now,” Borralho told Laerte Viana. “If I had to decide on another earlier than the title, I believe it might be Adesanya after which the title.”
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Nonetheless, Borralho isn’t certain that he’d get the identical ‘Stylebender’ he watched dominate the division for thus a few years.
After successful 12-straight at middleweight, Adesanya has misplaced two of his final three, together with back-to-back losses towards Sean Strickland and Du Plessis. Now 35 years previous, it’s not unreasonable to suppose that father time is starting to meet up with the City Kickboxing star.
Nonetheless, Borralho is aware of that even when the ‘Stylebender’ has misplaced a step, he’s nonetheless a harmful man to trifle with contained in the Octagon.
“Perhaps [Adesanya’s] not the identical centered man he was earlier than, however he’s nonetheless the identical man with the identical approach, talent and dominance,”
Is Caio Borralho vs. Israel Adesanya the battle to make following final weekend’s battle card at The APEX?
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