Former middleweight titleholder Robert Whittaker takes on short-notice replacement Ikram Aliskerov in the Ultimate Fighting Championship headliner on Saturday in Saudi Arabia.
this Saturday at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, and it should help pick up what has been a lackluster June schedule thus far. The main event sees a late change but remains quite interesting. The initial pairing of middleweightscould have resulted in a title shot for the latter, but he instead gets replaced by a divisional dark horse inand should sort out a piece of the heavyweight division. Meanwhile, the rest of the bill should provide some excitement.
Whittaker is in a tough spot at the moment. He’s clearly still on the fringes of the middleweight elite, but his losses have left him without much of a path back to the title picture in the short term. As a result, it’s time for “The Reaper” to just keep winning and hope things eventually break his way. Whittaker was an early example of the benefits of bucking the conventional wisdom and moving up in weight rather than down.
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