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Brazil's Alex Pereira, right, fights Nigeria's Israel Adesanya during the first round of a middleweight title fight at the UFC 281 mixed martial arts event, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in New York. No. 1 title contender Israel Adesanya faces champion Alex Pereira for the middleweight belt on Saturday, April 8, 2023, in Miami in UFC 287. Pereira knocked out Adesanya in the fifth round in November. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Adesanya couldn’t wait for UFC title rematch with Pereira

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Demonstrators hold placards during a march in central Auckland, New Zealand, Monday, June 1, 2020, to protest the death of United States' George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Floyd, who after a white police officer who is now charged with murder, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air. (Dean Purcell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

UFC star Adesanya joins George Floyd protest in New Zealand

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UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, of Nigeria, prepares for a UFC 248 open workout, in Las Vegas on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Adesanya, Zhang carry global appeal into UFC 248 title bouts

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FILE - In this June 10, 2018, file photo, Robert Whittaker reacts after his middleweight mixed martial arts title bout against Yoel Romero at UFC 225 in Chicago. Whittaker defends his UFC middleweight title against Kelvin Gastelum in the main event of UFC 234 in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jim Young, File)

Whittaker pulls out with injury, Adesanya wins at UFC 234

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