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Kape isn’t ready to let go of his beef with former UFC
middleweight champ Israel
Adesanya.
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Kape was scheduled to fight Felipe
dos Santos last month at UFC 293, which was headlined by
Adesanya’s title defense against Sean
Strickland. During the pre-fight presser, “Starboy” went off on
his original opponent Kai
Kara-France, who had pulled out of the matchup and was seated
in the audience.
Adesanya came to his City Kickboxing teammate’s defense, calling
Kape a “midget” and promising to bury him.
In a recent interview with
MMAFighting.com, Kape claimed that “The Last Stylebender”
subsequently approached him with a truce offering backstage, which
he turned down.
“After all this talk [at the press conference], he came to
me backstage ‘Hey, no disrespect, we are Africa, we’re brothers,’”
Kape recalled. “I said, ‘We are not brothers. Look, my problem is
with Kai Kara, not with you. Why did you stand up? He can handle
his business.’”
Regardless of Adesanya’s size advantage, Kape seemingly has no
doubts about outcome of a street fight with “no cameras.”
“Believe me, if he’s in the street with no cameras, I’ll eat you,
too,” Kape said. “You are a man to back up your words. Because
you’re just one [man], you’re tall, but I’ll eat you in the
streets. Believe me. You don’t know what I’m capable of doing.”