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Ultimate Fighting Championship interim middleweight champion, Nigeria\u2019s Israel \u2018the Last Stylebender\u2019 Adesanya, could not hide his joy at finally being in Nigeria, 16 years after he left his country of birth.
\nGuardian TV caught up with the mixed martial artist and he had a whole lot to say about his love for the country, life as a champ, why he is the Stylebender, his relationship with fellow UFC champ Kamaru Usman, and so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2022],"tags":[16990,21465,234,21466,21467,21468,21469,585,591,21470,21471,21472,691,819,21473,13671,21474,21475,21476,21477,21478],"class_list":["post-48859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gtv-exclusive","tag-birth","tag-champ","tag-country","tag-interim","tag-israel-adesanya","tag-israeladesanya","tag-kamaruusman","tag-life","tag-love","tag-middleweight-champion","tag-middleweightchampion","tag-mixedmartialartist","tag-nigeria","tag-relationship","tag-stylebender","tag-ufc","tag-ufcchamp","tag-ufcfight","tag-ufcmiddleweight","tag-ultimate-fighting-championship","tag-ultimatefightingchampionship","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\n