Thrust into the main event at the last minute after health problems forced Robert Whittaker to withdraw from his title defense against Kelvin Gastelum, Adesanya fought the consensus greatest middleweight of all-time, Anderson Silva, in Melbourne, Australia. The fight was highly anticipated and seen as a likely passing of the torch between two supremely talented strikers, and it delivered.
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The contest was a 15-minute chess match, and at the end, “Spider” paid his respects to Adesanya.
