When his five-round fight with Israel Adesanya was complete at UFC 263 , Marvin Vettori thought he was going to have his hand raised. Once again, it didn’t happen. Vettori (17-5-1 MMA, 7-3-1 UFC) lost his rematch with UFC middleweight champion Adesanya (21-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) by unanimous decision , dropping all five rounds on the scorecards across the board at Gila Rivera Arena in Glendale, Ariz. Although he did land some solid strikes and had the champion in some compromising positions on the mat, Vettori never truly had Adesanya in danger of being finished. He thinks he did “some good things,” but absorbed 96 significant strikes and called leg kicks “the story of the fight.” Still, though, Vettori thought in the moment he might get his hand raised.
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