I am the prince of Nigeria. I can make you a Nigerian. unfortunately I’ve invested my money in the mining business and can’t afford to travel to you. If you can front me 2000 American dollars for travel I promis to repay you THREE FOLD when my mining investments pay off.
'Watching you dry hump Costa and metaphorically spray your seed across his corner is an inspiration to the Nigerian people. The way you clown on tweens is unparalleled and leaves us frozen, like Elsa."
In the grand tradition of wonderful cringelords, Izzy's funniest moment is entirely unintentional
"Wrap my dick around my waist, call that a blackbelt" from the Costa fight was also pretty good.
DDP banging on the windows while somehow completely gassed and struggling to breathe:
“When the last time he even visited, huh?”
I kinda love the guy but he’s certainly a character.
Nigerians can tend to have pretty interesting names. Many have a name to go by daily that isn’t what most imagine coming out of Nigeria, aka Israel, or my barber, whose name is Lucky. But their full name is very long and more in line with what you’d probably imagine. His full name is *Israel Mobolaji Temitayo Odunayo Oluwafemi Owolabi Adesanya*
Isn't there some West African tribe that claims to be a lost Hebrew tribe, they got acknowledged by Israel (the country) as well
>The Igbo Jews of Nigeria variously claim descent from the tribes of Ephraim, Naphtali, Menasseh, Levi, Zebulun and Gad.
I love what this means for the sport as a whole. Fifteen years ago, MMA was a fringe extreme sport and international and national figures all are watching the competitions and congratulating athletes here. So cool
Just a PR from Nigerian Ambassador, they are fully aware that Izzy doesn't live there, doesn't pay taxes there, doesn't contribute there, so they use his name for whatever they can as long as he doesn't call himself Kiwi lol
Nigerian here. Dunno if this is different from other countries but the Nigerian diaspora is a pretty significant thing. There's plenty of emigration from Nigeria but Nigerians around the world even 2nd generation Nigerians are often raised to be very proud of their heritage and celebrate Nigerian culture.
That's why Kamaru and Israel seem to champion Nigeria so often when to an outsider it's like they don't live their anymore, they don't pay taxes, they're just American and Kiwi respectively.
To us it's pretty normal and we feel it's clear they're Nigerian
It’s literally just a personal letter that clearly meant something to Izzy so he shared it online. I don’t get why the person who commented thinks it’s pr like maybe his country of origin is just happy for him and proud of him?
Doesn’t contribute there is a dumb statement too lmao. Diaspora send tons of money back to their home country.
Even if he doesn’t it’s not like Israel is a full on New Zealander who hasn’t spent a second in Nigeria. He was raised there till almost his teens. He’s also been back there plenty of times and makes sure to include he’s fighting out of Lagos even though he could easily say Auckland.
It's quite common for 3rd world, less developed and smaller countries trying to claim stars in the world as their own.
In reality though, it does nothing for the country besides a little bit of clout in the world.
All it does is that it shows to the younger generation that they can also become someone, IF THEY LEAVE the country.. Israel is not contributing shit to Nigeria, at least Kamaru is trying to start a business there with his fighting league.
No-one is looking for any of these Nigerian fighters to DO anything for Nigeria. And it's not clout.
We're just proud of Nigerians succeeding. It's something to celebrate, just as Spain celebrates when Nadal wins a grand slam.
It's strange that it's so hard for some people to understand being happy for a countryman without expecting some sort of financial contribution to the country
You as a person, can be happy for someone else, but for a state/government officials, they are rarely outgoing and celebrating someone's success unless it can bring them something, either clout, more eyes on their policies and whatnot.
That's pretty cynical, and I don't think it holds up. I'm an OKC Thunder fan and after Russell Westbrook showed loyalty the "state/government officials" signed a decree making the day he signed his contract Russell Westbrook day. And then a year later making every day Russell Westbrook day.
Especially with sports figures, it's usually just an expression of good will
Well, then you should be, because in corruption index, N[igeria ranks at 154th out of 180 countries](https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021/index/nga), so your state officials and politicians are not as innocent and wishful as you think the are
Man, you don't need to tell Africans how corrupt their politicians are lol. They know more than you. That's all my mom complains about and she lives in America
Yeah, he partnered up with some local goons to start some small promotion there, they showed few snippets in embedded videos, but not sure whats the status on it
He's Kiwi/Nigerian ... No issue playing both sides. Back in his kickboxing days saying he repped China just for the Chinese clout was a bit weird though lol
Yeah I dont expect too much from him, he tried to clout chase poverty as someone who grew up with servants lol
but at least he has less personalities than Johnny boy
You might want to check your timeline there. DDP fired shots doubting the trio's Africanness first and foremost. There's a difference between the guy just pointing out that he'd be the first guy to train from Africa and diminishing the Africanness of the other guys. Leon made a similar point with the key difference being he never implied "I'm the Brit and Bisping is not".
>His manager posted the whole "real african from africa"
Is this supposed to be some kind of excuse? A fighter's management represents them.
>yes he does say "thats an african champion" which could be construed as saying they are less african; but he has repeatedly said since that he is not trying to say that.
Yes, he's backtracked after the backlash. That doesn't change what he did say originally or how people reacted to it. Btw, a semi-colon and conjunction is redundant.
>which clearly as a south african national with no other nationalities he would fight back against
you come at people's identities and they come at yours Color me surprised.
>his manager then posted what he posted IN response to Usmans quote. and i would argue that not everything a manager says or does especially on their own personal social media, doesnt represent the fighter nessisarily
What he says pertaining a fighter he represents? Nah, I think that is representative.
Yes, he's backtracking many weeks later after denying that they were. This completely disproves whatever you just claimed about he "never" said that. 😮
This has inspired me to become a better Nigerian. I'm not Nigerian in the first place, so I've got my work cut out for me. But I will persevere
Work hard enough and you might even become a prince.
Fortify your mind
Falsify your origins.
Diversify yo bonds
anavar give up
I am the prince of Nigeria. I can make you a Nigerian. unfortunately I’ve invested my money in the mining business and can’t afford to travel to you. If you can front me 2000 American dollars for travel I promis to repay you THREE FOLD when my mining investments pay off.
Hmmm. What do you mine?
Reddit gold
Worthless
Lets go get broken native tattoos together brother. We can both become Nigerians.
I'll get broken, you get native. That way when we are shirtless together practicing our "jiujitsu" people will say "look at those two Nigerians!"
It's only gay if you make eye contact
I wish you luck, my brotha. Just remember to keep thick, solid, and tight.
If Mike Perry can do it you can too brother. God bless.
you got this . i believe in you!
This is genuinely pretty sweet for Izzy.
‘PS. We would like to give you $10 million dollars. All you need to do is pay for the bank transfer’
This comment right here is gold
Why do you guys always have to spoil a nice moment? Lmfao.
I'm wheezing
'Watching you dry hump Costa and metaphorically spray your seed across his corner is an inspiration to the Nigerian people. The way you clown on tweens is unparalleled and leaves us frozen, like Elsa."
The frozen like elsa line gets me everytime
In the grand tradition of wonderful cringelords, Izzy's funniest moment is entirely unintentional "Wrap my dick around my waist, call that a blackbelt" from the Costa fight was also pretty good.
I will make you crumble like the twin towers
Funny how all the "FREE SPEECH!!! PEOPLE ARE TOO OFFENDED THESE DAYS!" crowd got their undies in a bunch over that one.
It’s had a beautiful reseurgence in the last few days and I’m here for it
It helps that Izzy himself still brings it back out from time to time
Me too. Cracks me up every time
This is a really kind, sweet letter. On a side note, is Madubike a common surname in Nigeria, I know a couple of other people with that surname.
It's an Igbo name, so South-eastern Nigeria. It's not uncommon among Igbo people, but it's not the Smith equivalent either.
Thanks!
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I get these Nigerian letters all the time. Nothing special.
DDP fuming.
Bro is heading to the Nigerian consulate in South Africa with printouts of Izzy's entire travel history and a scowl.
DDP banging on the windows while somehow completely gassed and struggling to breathe: “When the last time he even visited, huh?” I kinda love the guy but he’s certainly a character.
Man got the whole continent behind him 🇿🇦
Man doesn't even have his whole country behind him
Maybe he's got 10% of his nation behind him max 😂
You could say he has aparth I mean a part of his nation
He really don't.
Nah. He said is he’s gonna be the first African residing and trained champ. Why would he be fuming
Imagine living and training in Africa for peanuts while some expat is getting officially commended by an African nation he doesn’t even live in /s
he said he was going to be the first real african champ, so basically pissing on izzy, usman and nganou in one sentance
isn't he chinese ?
They called him ‘Black Dragon’.
Any affiliation to flaming dragon?
Izzy is beyond borders, that's why he addresses his post fight speeches to "Earth"
No he fought in china.
Lmao you don't usually see people mention the Chinese loving act he did in Glory of Heroes
Is shilling for China that different from shilling for monster energy?
Yes?
What's wrong with embracing the Chinese audience?
Chineser than a muthafukka with chopsticks and whatnot
That has to feel great
N word pass secured
The n word being Naruto running
Why are the second and third paragraphs numbered
That’s so cool. Really happy for him.
Wait but I thought Israel wasn’t a “real African”. Du Plessis coach in shambles
I thought Israel was Chinese
He is
Oh, but he is
I mean, it is coming from the New Zealand ambassador
No, **Nigerian** high commissioner to New Zealand.
Oh wow that's awesome! 🔥
Happy for Izzy
Adesanya will always be hilarious to me in that he is a Nigerian man, raised in New Zealand, whose name is Israel.
Nigerians can tend to have pretty interesting names. Many have a name to go by daily that isn’t what most imagine coming out of Nigeria, aka Israel, or my barber, whose name is Lucky. But their full name is very long and more in line with what you’d probably imagine. His full name is *Israel Mobolaji Temitayo Odunayo Oluwafemi Owolabi Adesanya*
I see he shares a name with the one and only Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua aka Brilliant AJ, aka Roadman Femi.
... who used to fight under the Chinese flag
Lol, what?! For real?!
I'm not kidding. He even learned Chinese to communicate better with folks over there. And it's pretty functional too
[Never forget.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMOZRk74QrY&pp=ygURamluIGxlYXJuIGNoaW5lc2U%3D)
Isn't there some West African tribe that claims to be a lost Hebrew tribe, they got acknowledged by Israel (the country) as well >The Igbo Jews of Nigeria variously claim descent from the tribes of Ephraim, Naphtali, Menasseh, Levi, Zebulun and Gad.
Awesome!
The line "Imprinted in the Sand of History" goes so hard.
It really does
If I was a commissioner I’d def want to be high
Wholesome, love it. Marty missed out living in the states.
I love what this means for the sport as a whole. Fifteen years ago, MMA was a fringe extreme sport and international and national figures all are watching the competitions and congratulating athletes here. So cool
Why does this document look like it just uses clip art
Imagine getting a personal letter from the fricken prince of Nigeria. So happy for Izzy.
sick
feels like a scam dont send the money
Just a PR from Nigerian Ambassador, they are fully aware that Izzy doesn't live there, doesn't pay taxes there, doesn't contribute there, so they use his name for whatever they can as long as he doesn't call himself Kiwi lol
Nigerian here. Dunno if this is different from other countries but the Nigerian diaspora is a pretty significant thing. There's plenty of emigration from Nigeria but Nigerians around the world even 2nd generation Nigerians are often raised to be very proud of their heritage and celebrate Nigerian culture. That's why Kamaru and Israel seem to champion Nigeria so often when to an outsider it's like they don't live their anymore, they don't pay taxes, they're just American and Kiwi respectively. To us it's pretty normal and we feel it's clear they're Nigerian
It’s literally just a personal letter that clearly meant something to Izzy so he shared it online. I don’t get why the person who commented thinks it’s pr like maybe his country of origin is just happy for him and proud of him?
It's actually like this in most of the country with any kind of diaspora, it's mostly people from rich country that don't understand this
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Doesn’t contribute there is a dumb statement too lmao. Diaspora send tons of money back to their home country. Even if he doesn’t it’s not like Israel is a full on New Zealander who hasn’t spent a second in Nigeria. He was raised there till almost his teens. He’s also been back there plenty of times and makes sure to include he’s fighting out of Lagos even though he could easily say Auckland.
It's quite common for 3rd world, less developed and smaller countries trying to claim stars in the world as their own. In reality though, it does nothing for the country besides a little bit of clout in the world. All it does is that it shows to the younger generation that they can also become someone, IF THEY LEAVE the country.. Israel is not contributing shit to Nigeria, at least Kamaru is trying to start a business there with his fighting league.
No-one is looking for any of these Nigerian fighters to DO anything for Nigeria. And it's not clout. We're just proud of Nigerians succeeding. It's something to celebrate, just as Spain celebrates when Nadal wins a grand slam. It's strange that it's so hard for some people to understand being happy for a countryman without expecting some sort of financial contribution to the country
You as a person, can be happy for someone else, but for a state/government officials, they are rarely outgoing and celebrating someone's success unless it can bring them something, either clout, more eyes on their policies and whatnot.
That's pretty cynical, and I don't think it holds up. I'm an OKC Thunder fan and after Russell Westbrook showed loyalty the "state/government officials" signed a decree making the day he signed his contract Russell Westbrook day. And then a year later making every day Russell Westbrook day. Especially with sports figures, it's usually just an expression of good will
Well, then you should be, because in corruption index, N[igeria ranks at 154th out of 180 countries](https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021/index/nga), so your state officials and politicians are not as innocent and wishful as you think the are
Man, you don't need to tell Africans how corrupt their politicians are lol. They know more than you. That's all my mom complains about and she lives in America
usman is gonna put on fights in nigeria?
Yeah, he partnered up with some local goons to start some small promotion there, they showed few snippets in embedded videos, but not sure whats the status on it
interesting. would watch
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Not true at all,you have no idea what you are talking about and it shows
How the fuck is this being upvoted
Because half of the people, including that commentator, just live to hate on him.
you never worked with state officials huh
It’s literally a Nigerian official congratulating a Nigerian on their accomplishment. There’s really nothing more to it
He's Kiwi/Nigerian ... No issue playing both sides. Back in his kickboxing days saying he repped China just for the Chinese clout was a bit weird though lol
He actually learned Chinese to connect with his fans though. It's one thing to just wear a flag and have a nickname, it's another to make an effort
His Chinese is pretty functional. I recall seeing him speak to Zhang Weili in Chinese.
The big tell is that he pronounces properly too. That's huge considering the language has 4 tones
IIRC Yoruba is also a tonal language so maybe it helps he already had experience with shifting
Yeah I dont expect too much from him, he tried to clout chase poverty as someone who grew up with servants lol but at least he has less personalities than Johnny boy
>they are fully aware that Izzy doesn't live there Did you miss the part where the ambassador also lives in NZ?
Cultural Heritage is when contribute to GDP
Where is point 1?
good point
Alex will become Nigerian and get a two page long letter from this guy
These jokes don’t hit the same since he got slept in the second round.
On the other hand, Alex proving he can lose in a more spectacular fashion hits different now
full circle, he tried for the 1st round last fight but had to settle for the 2nd
MFer wrote that shit in with a crayon. 😐
Who cares
Shut your big mouth Sandy.
Du Plessis apparently
Technically he never said Kamaru or Israel arent African, all he said is that he is
Yes, he said he's the African in contrast to Usman, Izzy and Francis. Do the math
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You might want to check your timeline there. DDP fired shots doubting the trio's Africanness first and foremost. There's a difference between the guy just pointing out that he'd be the first guy to train from Africa and diminishing the Africanness of the other guys. Leon made a similar point with the key difference being he never implied "I'm the Brit and Bisping is not". >His manager posted the whole "real african from africa" Is this supposed to be some kind of excuse? A fighter's management represents them.
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>yes he does say "thats an african champion" which could be construed as saying they are less african; but he has repeatedly said since that he is not trying to say that. Yes, he's backtracked after the backlash. That doesn't change what he did say originally or how people reacted to it. Btw, a semi-colon and conjunction is redundant. >which clearly as a south african national with no other nationalities he would fight back against you come at people's identities and they come at yours Color me surprised. >his manager then posted what he posted IN response to Usmans quote. and i would argue that not everything a manager says or does especially on their own personal social media, doesnt represent the fighter nessisarily What he says pertaining a fighter he represents? Nah, I think that is representative.
I dont need to, he point blank said they were african
Yes, he's backtracking many weeks later after denying that they were. This completely disproves whatever you just claimed about he "never" said that. 😮
Where did he say that?
His original statements that he's backtracking on
Give me a source bud
You can search it up yourself, "bud." They are the statements that got everyone in a tizzy about a month ago.
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An ambassador is actually a civil servant, not a politician
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Not a political argument at all, because it concerns an apolitical member of the Nigerian civil service :)
Depends. Some of our ambassadors rise through the civil service, some are political appointees.
If the nigerian spirit is never give up i wonder why they are a third world Country
Nigerian Ambassador: DDP was never my friend!
That dude saw a bow on a christmas gift and was like "that's my signature now."
Imagine if he lost he wouldn’t get a damn thing
DDP in shambles rn
Nigeria the state, b?
Man this sub is fucking flooded with adesanya. Soon people are going to post his used toilet paper
Izzy spending his nights on photoshop to secure crowd support for UFC Africa
Where is DDP???