{"id":41487,"date":"2026-11-06T02:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Israel-Adesanya-feels-better-than-ever-after-leaving-City-Kickboxing-203513"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:52:25","slug":"israel-adesanya-feels-better-than-ever-after-leaving-city-kickboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/israel-adesanya-feels-better-than-ever-after-leaving-city-kickboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya feels better than ever after leaving City Kickboxing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/israel-adesanya-feels-better-than-ever-after-leaving-city-kickboxing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Israel-Adesanya-56374\">Israel<br \/>\nAdesanya<\/a> has switched up his training environment.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya trained at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/stats\/fightfinder?association=City+Kickboxing\"><br \/>\nCity Kickboxing<\/a> in Auckland, New Zealand, since 2010. The<br \/>\nformer <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> middleweight champion, now on a<br \/>\nfour-fight losing skid, parted ways with CKB this past May. Ahead<br \/>\nof his Octagon return, Adesanya opened up about his new team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Israel Adesanya addresses City Kickboxing exit: \u2018Best I\u2019ve felt<br \/>\nin a very long time\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Adesanya hasn\u2019t disclosed why he left CKB, but claims he feels<br \/>\nbetter than he has in a long time after leaving the gym and<br \/>\nbuilding his own team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can truly say, with my departure from my old gym, CKB, and now<br \/>\nbuilding the team that I have and training specifically for me,<br \/>\nthis is the best I\u2019ve felt in a very long time, for real,\u201d Adesanya<br \/>\nsaid on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Since losing the 185-pound title to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sean-Strickland-30452\">Sean<br \/>\nStrickland<\/a> in 2023, Adesanya (24-6) has suffered stoppage<br \/>\nlosses to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Dricus-Du-Plessis-146193\">Dricus Du<br \/>\nPlessis<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Nassourdine-Imavov-217405\">Nassourdine<br \/>\nImavov<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Joe-Pyfer-239253\">Joe Pyfer<\/a>. He<br \/>\nis rumored to be headlining <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-295-Riyadh-114777\">UFC<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia<\/a> against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sharabutdin-Magomedov-309711\">Sharabutdin<br \/>\nMagomedov<\/a> (17-1) on Dec. 5 in Riyadh, though the promotion has<br \/>\nyet to confirm the matchup.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOhnfeM_WFM?si=u6uwt6TTTSU2kj_c\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya has switched up his training environment. Adesanya trained at City Kickboxing in Auckland, New Zealand, since 2010. The former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion, now on a four-fight losing skid, parted ways with CKB this past May. Ahead of his Octagon return, Adesanya opened up about his new team. Advertisement Israel Adesanya addresses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}