{"id":279537,"date":"2018-06-28T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=279537"},"modified":"2018-06-28T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:14:45","slug":"yoel-romero-responds-to-robert-whittakers-comments-about-his-magic-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/yoel-romero-responds-to-robert-whittakers-comments-about-his-magic-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero responds to Robert Whittaker&#8217;s comments about his &#8220;magic&#8221; transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker felt that Yoel Romero changed quite significantly between their first and second fights. According to Whittaker, Romero felt more or less normal when they first fought, and more like &#8220;metal&#8221; or &#8220;concrete&#8221; when they met for a second time at UFC 225 earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was punching and kicking him [at UFC 225] he felt like metal \u2014 like a dude made out of concrete, it was a ridiculous,\u201d Whittaker said on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XiDYroDPyE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grange TV<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cI fought him a year ago, and he didn\u2019t feel like concrete. Not like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a tough guy, and like I said before, he\u2019s a top caliber athlete,\u201d Whittaker continued. \u201cBut for him to come back the way he did, and for him to feel so differently and to perform so differently than he did a year ago \u2014 cause let\u2019s not forget, I have fought him before. I\u2019ve experienced his shots, I\u2019ve experienced landing shots on him, I\u2019ve experience fighting him before. For him to make those changes physically and athletically, in a year, at the age of 41\u2026 I\u2019m leaving that down to nothing more than magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the ever-classy middleweight champ said he was stacking Romero&#8217;s transformation up to &#8220;magic,&#8221; refusing to say anything more accusatory than that, some fans quickly began to accuse Romero of potential PED use.<\/p>\n<p>Romero has now done his part to put any accusations of this kind to bed, sharing an image of a letter he received from USADA after his UFC 225 bout with Whittaker. The letter explains that he was clean as a whistle in this fight.<\/p>\n<p>See Romero&#8217;s response to Whittaker and his other doubters below:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bkjgwo2n1m8\/<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Robert Whittaker&#8217;s comments on Yoel Romero&#8217;s physique at UFC 225?<\/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\/28\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker felt that Yoel Romero changed quite significantly between their first and second fights. According to Whittaker, Romero felt more or less normal when they first fought, and more like &#8220;metal&#8221; or &#8220;concrete&#8221; when they met for a second time at UFC 225 earlier this month. \u201cWhen I was punching and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":278372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10582,10403,10179],"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>Yoel Romero responds to Robert Whittaker&#039;s comments about his &quot;magic&quot; transformation | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yoel Romero responds to some recent comments from UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker with a letter from the United States Anti-Doping Agency.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/yoel-romero-responds-to-robert-whittakers-comments-about-his-magic-transformation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yoel Romero responds to Robert Whittaker&#039;s comments about his &quot;magic&quot; 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