Former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker will look to bounce back from a recent defeat when he headlines the UFC Fight Night event on July 26. His opponent will be Reinier de Ridder in a fight that promises strong emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event will take place at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, according to the UFC announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whittaker, with a record of 26-8, comes to this fight after a first-round submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev in October. The 34-year-old Australian fighter suffered a dental displacement during that fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before that defeat, Whittaker had accumulated important victories against Paulo Costa and Ikram Aliskerov, which kept him in contention for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For his part, Reinier de Ridder, known as “RDR”, arrives boosted by the most significant victory of his career, a knockout in the second round over Bo Nickal last week. The Dutch contender has a 3-0 record since joining the UFC last year, achieving these three victories in less than six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current middleweight champion, Dricus Du Plessis, does not yet have a date for his next title defense, but the UFC has already announced that he will face Chimaev on a date to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Robert Whittaker Seeks Redemption at UFC Fight Night Former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker will look to bounce back from a recent defeat when he headlines the UFC Fight Night event on July 26. His opponent will be Reinier de Ridder in a fight that promises strong emotions. The event will take place at the Etihad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1473,1474,1475,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-5825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-abu-dhabi","9":"tag-reinier-de-ridder","10":"tag-robert-whittaker","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}