Whittaker title shot set for Super Bowl weekend

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Robert Whittaker volition get his long-awaited changeable astatine regaining his middleweight rubric successful aboriginal 2022, arsenic a combat with Israel Adesanya has been locked in.

In a monolithic play of sport, Whittaker volition quadrate disconnected with the Kiwi-Nigerian champ successful Houston, the nighttime earlier the NFL's Super Bowl successful Los Angeles.

Whittaker has rattled disconnected 3 consecutive wins against different contenders successful the part to find his mode backmost to the main event, against the lone antheral who has defeated him since his middleweight debut successful 2014.

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The 30-year-old clinched the interim rubric successful 2017 successful an implicit warfare against Yoel Romero, and was aboriginal upgraded to undisputed champ erstwhile Georges St-Pierre vacated the championship.

He bushed Romero again successful 2018 (the Cuban failed to marque value truthful it wasn't for the title), earlier his archetypal authoritative rubric defence ended with Adesanya beating him via a second-round knockout successful precocious 2019.

Robert Whittaker volition combat for the middleweight rubric successful 2022. (Getty)

Adesanya has been perfectly ascendant successful the division, his lone nonaccomplishment arsenic a nonrecreational coming erstwhile helium moved up a value people to trial himself against airy heavyweight champ, Jan Błachowicz.

Whittaker has traditionally been respectful towards each his opponents, but there's nary emotion mislaid betwixt this pair.

"That different c--t, what's his name? Rob Whittaker, Bobby Knuckles," Adesanya said aft his triumph implicit Marvin Vettori, erstwhile helium asked what was next.

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Fellow Australian Casey O'Neill volition besides diagnostic astatine 271, aft a stellar rookie twelvemonth wherever she won each 3 of her fights successful the UFC via stoppage.

She'll look Roxanne Modafferi successful a conflict of ranked flyweight contenders.

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