UFC-Saudi Arabia- Results- Bonus Winners-Highlights And Scorecards
There are levels to the MMA game, and Robert Whittaker sent that message to everybody in the UFC's middleweight division on Saturday evening in Saudi Arabia.
You can't just drop a person in without prior warning anticipate that he should give me a battle.
Whittaker burned through no time annihilating short-notice substitution Ikram Aliskerov at the headliner of the UFC Saudi Arabia. Whittaker at first hurt Aliskerov with a straight right hand, however he eventually completed the arrangement with an uppercut and two subsequent punches before official Marc Goddard stepped in to stop the battle.
He was at first set to confront Khamzat Chimaev, yet the last option pulled out of the battle last week in the wake of getting food contamination. Aliskerov, whose main past loss came against Chimaev before the two men showed up in the UFC, was taken out from a co-headliner spot in last week's UFC Vegas 93 card and moved up to the spot against Whittaker.
It didn't take long to see that the 31-year-old Russian was over his head. Aliskerov, a promising and skilled competitor, may get a battle with another middleweight sitting right external the main 15 in his next session.
While he was not prepared for the obligation he was squeezed into on Saturday, he actually holds extraordinary potential for future outcome in the division. Whittaker, who acquired one of the Presentation of the Night Rewards for his work, ought to hold safely as the No. 3 middleweight on the planet.