'My Dance Partner Didn't Want To Dance', Israel Adesanya Blasts Yoel Romeo

After successfully defending his UFC middleweight title in Las Vegas, USA on Sunday, Israel Adesanya has lashed out at Yoel Romero for 'not wanting to fight'.

Earlier, Romero had accused Lagos-born Adesanya of 'running around the arena', but the champion has responded to him saying, he 'didn't want to dance either'.

“To be honest, after the fight, I was really frustrated that my dance partner didn’t wanna dance," Adesanya told UFC.

"You look at the guy like Kelvin….., he brought the fight. It takes two to tango. So, if I am trying to fight and you are just standing on the ground, common! That silly, I mean I took his best shot in the first round.

“That might be the only round I gave him. He is playing like, ‘o yeah, am not hurt”. The legs don’t lie, I cut him up."

Meanwhile, on his verified Twitter handle on Sunday, 'The Last Stylebender' put up a picture of his duel versus Kelvin Gastelum in April last year, which finished 2019 as the best UFC fight of the year and his latest battle, concluding: "Get you a man that can do both".

UFC commentator Jon Anik called the scrap between Adesanya and Gastelum “one of the greatest title fights you will see.”