Mixed martial arts fighter Israel Adesanya has plenty of physical tools to administer his form of justice. But the UFC champ will have to leave those devices in the octagon to face another fight, in this case, a lawsuit filed in May 2023 by his former girlfriend. Per Pulse Sports, Adesanya’s ex, Charlotte Powdrell, is asking for literally half of the pugilist’s earnings, claiming she supported him long before he established his credentials in the fight game. The civil suit’s timing hardly seems coincidental, considering the $3 million purse Adesanya reportedly earned after regaining his middleweight title a month earlier. Although the relationship was first made public in 2019, the couple had apparently been seeing each other for years. They broke up in 2020.
While Powdrell is keeping mum about the upcoming court case, Adesanya had already blurted out his feelings on the situation via social media. “Very relatable,” commented Adesanya on Instagram (via Daily Mail). ‘”Imagine being so f****n entitled that you think you deserve what a man has worked his whole life for. When you came into this life with nothing and tried to leave with millions.”
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So far, Adesanya has fellow UFC fighter Kevin O’Malley in his corner. “I don’t know how their relationship was ever because I didn’t even know he had a girlfriend,” O’Malley said on his podcast, “The BrOMalley Show,” adding, “but to want half of his s**t, to want half of what he’s gone out there and done, is absolutely ridiculous.”
