“I’M FLOGGING THEM,” Robert Whittaker doubles down on being “the most dangerous man in the middleweight division”
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You cannot take the ruthless warrior out of Robert Whittaker no matter how elite of a clean competitor he seems to be. Whittaker is the only man to have given the current champion his toughest title defence. Whittaker, the former UFC middleweight champion, is not only the first-ever Australian UFC champion but is also the first Australian to have won one of the series of The Ultimate Fighter, titled SMASHES. In the past 8 years, Whittaker has only fallen short of the current UFC champion.
Otherwise, “The Reaper” has pretty much cleaned the rest of the division. Whittaker came into the UFC as a welterweight but fell short due to harsh weight cuts many times, so he moved up to the middleweight. That turned out to be the best decision of his career. Despite having a short tenure as a UFC champion, Whittaker still manages to sweep the rest of the division with his clinical Karate based striking and seasoned wrestling.
Robert Whittaker says he was close as “hair’s breadth” to taking everything from Israel Adesanya in their rematch back in Feb 2022
In an interview with Ariel Helwani at The MMA Hour, Whittaker talks about the UFC Paris atmosphere, why he hates losing and is terrified of losing twice in a row, his reaction to Marvin Vettori’s handshake trick current champion Israel Adesanya’s style of fighting, what gives Vettori a possibility to become a world champion and much more. In the midst of all, Whittaker also reminisces saying in the Octagon interview of his last fight at UFC Paris that he is the most dangerous man in the entire 185 lbs division, including Adesanya.
“I am the most dangerous man in the division,” says Whittaker. “I can beat anyone in the division. In the last fight against Israel Adesanya, I got within hair’s breadth of taking everything away from you and just the fights that I’ve been in and the opponents that I’ve had, I am not just beating him, beating them, I’m flogging them. There’s a difference in that. I’m hurting these guys… I just don’t come to the fight to win, I come to break my opponents…” continued Whittaker while also saying that he is not a big talker but that’s his mentality.
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What do you make of Whittaker betting on himself that no one is as threatening of an opponent as him inside the cage at 185 lbs? Where do you put Whittaker’s run in the middleweight amongst the best of all time amongst the likes of elite fighters such as Adesanya, Anderson Silva, Chris Weidman and Rich Franklin? Whittaker is planning to change his weight class for the second time in his UFC career in the near future as the Australian has time and again expressed his desire to not now but later on fight at light heavyweight as well.
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