Former undisputed middleweight champion, Robert Whittaker has despatched followers into raptures on social media — claiming he has given some thought to a possible gentle heavyweight division transfer in his UFC return — main followers to weigh up a conflict between himself and Brazilian berserker, Alex Pereira.
Whittaker, a former undisputed middleweight titleholder, has been out of motion since his return conflict in October, most not too long ago co-headlining the promotion’s UFC 308 occasion in Abu Dhabi.
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And struggling a ugly first spherical defeat, ex-champion, Whittaker was stopped early within the opening spherical by the unbeaten, Khamzat Chimaev within the pair’s title-eliminator — tapping to a vicious face crank submission of their rescheduled matchup.
Robert Whittaker eyeing potential gentle heavyweight division leap
Prone to return to motion subsequent yr, Auckland-born contender, Whittaker — who initially made his Octagon debut competing a divisional decrease at welterweight, has intrigued followers and pundits by claiming he has given some thought to a transfer up as excessive as gentle heavyweight within the coming future.
“I wouldn’t go down [a division], I can’t go down,” Robert Whittaker mentioned throughout a current MMArcade podcast, “I’m still playing with the idea of going up to light heavyweight. It’s just like, I’m a big dude. Much bigger than people think I am.”
Robert Whittaker looks like he is interested by a transfer as much as Gentle Heavyweight and truthfully would not be a foul concept for the place he is at in his profession pic.twitter.com/vyIfdG6xKn
— Jason Williams (@jasoneg33) December 22, 2024
“I don’t know. It’s Christmas,” Robert Whittaker joked. “I don’t want any stressful questions.”
In his most up-to-date win, Whittaker took on the surging, Ikram Aliskerov in the primary occasion of UFC Struggle Evening Saudi Arabia in the summertime, stopping the Russian with a blistering first spherical knockout win, touchdown his first stoppage victory since a high-kick knockout win over Brazilian veteran, Jacare Souza again in 2017.
