{"id":277997,"date":"2018-06-07T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=277997"},"modified":"2018-06-07T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:34:36","slug":"video-whittaker-and-romero-dos-anjos-and-colby-covington-have-staredowns-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-225\/video-whittaker-and-romero-dos-anjos-and-colby-covington-have-staredowns-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Whittaker and Romero, Dos Anjos and Covington have staredowns at UFC 225 media day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC 225 Media Day Staredowns - MMA Fighting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmlcCP_ePXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, the stars of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-225\/ufc-225-fight-card-and-start-time\/\">UFC 225<\/a> took to the stage for their penultimate pre-fight staredowns.<\/p>\n<p>This anticipated card, which goes down Saturday night in Chicago, Illinois, will be headlined by a middleweight title rematch between champion Robert Whittaker and challenger Yoel Romero. The pair first collided a little less than a year ago, in the main event of UFC 213. On that night, Whittaker walked away with a hard-fought unanimous decision win \u2014 and the interim middleweight title. He was then promoted to undisputed champion when <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> vacated that title late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC 225 co-main event will crown an interim champion in the welterweight division, as outspoken contender Colby Covington collides with former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the main card, finally, will be rounded out by a women&#8217;s featherweight contender bout between former bantamweight champ Holly Holm and Megan Anderson, a heavyweight bout between former champ Andrei Arlovski and Tai Tuivasa, and a welterweight bout between pro wrestling star CM Punk and Mike Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC 225 undercard, finally, is no less stacked. Highlights include <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alistair-overeem\/report-alistair-overeem-vs-curtis-blaydes-works-ufc-225\/\">a heavyweight bout between Alistair Overeem and Curtis Blaydes<\/a>, a strawweight bout between Claudia Gadelha and Carla Esparza, a featherweight bout between Ricardo Lamas and Mirsad Bektic, a light heavyweight bout between Rashad Evans and Anthony Smith, a flyweight bout between Sergio Pettis and Joseph Benavidez, and a lightweight bout between Clay Guida and Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the stars of this absurdly stacked card engage in their predictably tense media day staredowns in the video above!<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think comes out on top in UFC 225&#8217;s Robert Whittaker vs. Yoel Romero main event and its Colby Covington vs. Rafael dos Anjos co-main event?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/7\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday afternoon, the stars of UFC 225 took to the stage for their penultimate pre-fight staredowns. 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The pair first collided a little less than a year ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":278000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39474],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO | Whittaker and Romero, Dos Anjos and Covington have staredowns at UFC 225 media day | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Whittaker, Yoel Romero, Colby Covington, Rafael dos Anjos, and the other stars of UFC 225 took to the stage for staredowns today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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