White said that initially, the plan was to have the rematch with Robert Whittaker for the middleweight title after his victory at UFC 254 two weeks ago, but Whittaker turned it down "Listen when the fight was over on Fight Island, the last fight, I was like I'm going to have to sit down with[...]
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In the co-main event, a technical, spirited affair took place between Robert Whittaker (23-5) and Jared Cannonier (13-5), with Whittaker taking a three round decision Outpointing Cannonier on the feet, both stunned each other in the final round, but Whittaker took rounds one and two handily The rest of the UFC 254 main card featured[...]
The main card Saturday also features a stellar co-main event, as "The Reaper" Robert Whittaker (22-5) takes on Jared Cannonier (13-4) in a big Middleweight fight Heavyweights Alexander Volkov (31-8) and Walt Harris (13-8, 1 NC) look to climb the rankings, and on the prelims, Da-un Jung (13-2) looks to make it 13 in a[...]
As reported on tonight by MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani, the fight at UFC 221 between Robert Whittaker and Luke Rockhold will now be for the undisputed title St-Pierre informed the UFC of his decision a couple of days ago.
This all comes on the heels of Georges St-Pierre revealing that he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis[...]
Most feel Bisping should be fighting interim middleweight champion Robert Whittaker instead, in order to unify the belts, which makes the most sense Bisping is getting a bit of a reputation for ducking top guys as he fights the ranked middleweights out of order Beating GSP will make everyone have to consider "The Count" as[...]