Robert Whitaker suffered a back-to-back loss for the primary time within the middleweight division.
Robert Whitaker (26-9 MMA) and Reinier de Ridder (21-2 MMA) collided with right now’s UFC headliners on the ABC 9 occasion in Abu Dhabi.
Whitaker took half within the contest in hopes of returning to the victory column as he was submitted to Kamzachmaev in his previous efforts at UFC 308 this October.
In the meantime, Reinier de Ridder joined UFC Abu Dhabi, attaining 4 consecutive wins, along with his latest victory going round extremely promoted prospect Bo Nickal on TKO.
Regardless of a powerful opening spherical, Robert Whittaker was simply wanting his quest to keep away from consecutive losses throughout his middleweight tenure, even if he was then almost completed by dropping Reniel Doider on the bottom in Spherical 3. After 25 minutes of earlier and subsequent actions, solely one of many three judges had a “Shinigami” on their respective scorecards, which gained the “RDR” break up resolution.
It was a tough drug to swallow for Robert Whitaker’s former UFC middleweight champion. He appeared to be within the cusp of victory after incomes that large knockdown in spherical three.
Shortly after his defeat to De Ridder, Robert Whittaker took him to the Microphone and shared the next emotions from inside Octagon:
“Yeah, to be trustworthy, a fairly ass coronary heart. He did what he stated he was attempting to do. I believed I would tick all of the containers, however there was a number of strain (he introduced it to me). He has a number of strain and a number of talent set.
Right this moment’s loss is the second time Robert Whittaker has dropped consecutive video games in his UFC profession. It was the primary time in 2014 when he was combating at welterweight and misplaced losses to Stephen Thompson and Court docket McGee respectively.
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