For many, culture in a sports or team context isn't real and is brushed aside as a cliche.

City Kickboxing represent combat sports in Aotearoa to the fullest, having aligned with the fighting excellence of those who came before CKB and this lineage is not only manifest in the current existence of CKB, also in how they go about their business inside the octagon.

Coming to the octagon after the glorious encounter between champion Weili Zhang and Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the UFC women's strawweight division, Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero put on a show that ain't going to be described as fan-friendly.

All sorts of Israel Adesanya content to get you frothing for UFC 248 where Adesanya fights Yoel Romero.

This Sunday, Israel Adesanya has his second UFC middleweight title defence against Yoel Romero.