{"id":393692,"date":"2022-06-23T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393692"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:47:09","slug":"just-picture-looking-over-your-shoulder-and-seeing-me-there-robert-whittaker-pushes-back-against-israel-adesanyas-suggestion-for-a-move-up-to-the-205-pound-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/just-picture-looking-over-your-shoulder-and-seeing-me-there-robert-whittaker-pushes-back-against-israel-adesanyas-suggestion-for-a-move-up-to-the-205-pound-division\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Just Picture Looking Over Your Shoulder and Seeing Me There&#8217;- Robert Whittaker Pushes Back Against Israel Adesanya&#8217;s Suggestion for a Move Up to the 205-Pound Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker spoke to talkSPORT and pushed back against some advice he recently received from his rival Israel Adesanya. After going 0-2 against \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019, Robert Whittaker was advised by Adesanya that a move up to the light heavyweight division would be his best path to ever fighting for UFC gold again.<\/p>\n<p>However, Whittaker wasn\u2019t having any of Israel Adesanya\u2019s suggestions, and he clearly stated that he was not planning on going anywhere. Whittaker views himself as the most dangerous middleweight on the planet and he\u2019s happy to continue defeating every contender who comes his way until he can fight Israel Adesanya once more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-393696 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/whittaker-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m the most dangerous person in the division and I threaten everyone, no-one is safe in this division and of course, he wants me to get out of there. I\u2019m the hunter and I want it. He saw after that last fight that I wanted it and I\u2019m coming for it and I\u2019m not gonna stop until I get it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s scary, just picture looking over your shoulder and seeing me there. I\u2019m really happy where I am right now. I\u2019m doing some good work in the middleweight division and the hunt to get the fight is fun in a way. I\u2019m enjoying the idea of beating up everyone in front of me until they\u2019re looking at a list with every name scratched off like, well, Rob\u2019s left.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/julianna-pena-believes-amanda-nunes-got-embarrassed-into-leaving-att-after-losing-via-submission-at-ufc-269\/\">Julianna Pena Believes Amanda Nunes Got \u2018Embarrassed\u2019 Into Leaving ATT After Losing Via Submission at UFC 269<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Robert Whittaker talked about how he if he did end up moving to the 205-pound division, he wouldn\u2019t be coming back down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g7DC-4eQj24\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWho knows how fate is? Maybe I\u2019ll give 205[Ibs] a go,\u201d Whittaker said. \u201cThe only thing is though, 205 isn\u2019t going to be an up-down system. If I go up to 205, that\u2019s where I\u2019m finishing up. I don\u2019t do things half-cocked. I\u2019ll do it properly. I\u2019ll get massive and just get in there and throw bombs.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/robert-whittaker-hits-back-at-israel-adesanya-after-the-champ-suggests-he-should-move-up-to-205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robert Whittaker has truly established himself as an all-time great middleweight fighter and he\u2019s got a third title fight against Israel Adesanya as a sole motivator on his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker spoke to talkSPORT and pushed back against some advice he recently received from his rival Israel Adesanya. After going 0-2 against \u2018The Last Stylebender\u2019, Robert Whittaker was advised by Adesanya that a move up to the light heavyweight division would be his best path to ever fighting for UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}