When he moved up to middleweight in 2014, Robert Whittaker went on a lengthy win streak that led to the UFC title. After defending it once against Yoel Romero in 2018, he lost it to Israel Adesanya in October via second-round TKO.
While he took on and defeated one top contender after another, winning the title is apparently not part of the plan for “Bobby Knuckles.”
“Yeah I kind of, I didn’t really like it that much,” Whittaker said of his title stint on Monday’s Ariel Helwani MMA Show (transcript by MMA Mania). “It’s one of those things that, it comes with some pros, but the cons were really starting distracting me.