{"id":279910,"date":"2018-07-04T05:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=279910"},"modified":"2018-07-04T07:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:38:14","slug":"israel-adesanya-goes-off-on-yoel-romero-for-almost-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/israel-adesanya-goes-off-on-yoel-romero-for-almost-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya goes off on Yoel Romero for “almost cheating”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yoel Romero has dazzled fans in his first two bouts of 2018, first clubbing former champ Luke Rockhold into unconsciousness<\/a> in February, then engaging current champ Robert Whittaker in one of the year’s best fights<\/a> in June. Unfortunately, both of Romero’s 2018 bouts have been served with a side of controversy, as he failed to make weight on both occasions. It’s for this reason that surging middleweight contender Israel Adesanya has found it hard to root for him.<\/p>\n

In Adesanya’s eyes, Romero’s repeated failure to make weight is encroaching on cheating.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at Romero in his last fight,” Adesanya told MMA Fighting’s Peter Carroll\u00a0<\/a>of Yoel Romero. “Don\u2019t get me wrong, I didn\u2019t really care in the end because it was such a good fight, but regardless of what happened I didn\u2019t want Romero to win.”<\/p>\n