Former middleweight champion and third-ranked 185-pound contender Robert Whittaker has put collectively back-to-back wins this yr rebounding from a loss to Dricus Du Plessis in July 2023.
Recent off of his UFC Saudi Arabia first-round knockout win over Ikram Aliskerov, Whittaker would love a while off earlier than returning to the octagon.
“I do know that the exhausting fact within the UFC is that profitable opens doorways, so win fights,” Whittaker stated throughout an look on From The Stands. “That is additionally, luckily sufficient, how I make a residing. That is how I earn the bread for my household.
“Truthfully, I am simply going to take a while to relax. I took the final struggle fairly rapidly after [Paulo] Costa. It is truthfully felt like one actually lengthy camp,” Whittaker continued. “I’ll take the household away a bit bit and simply cruise, however I look to smash whoever they put in entrance of me afterwards.”
Whittaker was scheduled to face Khamzat Chimaev within the UFC Saudi Arabia primary occasion however sickness pressured Chimaev out of the struggle. After Whittaker’s win, Chimaev tweeted ‘We’re not accomplished.” Whittaker is not against rebooking a struggle with Chimaev however says it is actually as much as the struggle promotion.
“I am a middleweight and I do not choose my fights. If that is a struggle the UFC desires and continues to be thinking about making – They need me to headline one other card out that approach, it is what I do,” Whittaker stated. “Our paths are certain to cross. We’re each High 10 middleweights. It is sort of the sport.”