{"id":284273,"date":"2018-09-04T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=284273"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:34:13","slug":"robert-whittaker-responds-to-kelvin-gastelums-claim-that-he-wont-be-the-same-after-romero-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/robert-whittaker\/robert-whittaker-responds-to-kelvin-gastelums-claim-that-he-wont-be-the-same-after-romero-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker responds to Kelvin Gastelum&#8217;s claim that he won&#8217;t be the same after Romero wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker&#8217;s last two fights \u2014 both of which pitted him against Yoel Romero \u2014 have been absolute wars. In these fights, both he and Romero sustained incredible amounts of punishment, yet they both somehow managed to survive to the final bell each time.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of Kelvin Gastelum, who served as a coach opposite Robert Whittaker on the latest episode of The Ultimate Fighter, and will battle the champion sometime in the new year, Whittaker might not be the same after these wars with Romero. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kelvin-gastelum\/kelvin-gastelum-feels-robert-whittaker-might-not-be-the-same-fighter-after-yoel-romero-wars\/\">Gastelum opined on this topic<\/a> at a July media scrum.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yW1erb\">\u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to be the same fighter after these fights,\u201d Kelvin Gastelum said of Robert Whittaker. \u201cThese wars that he\u2019s been in, it takes a toll on the body, so we\u2019ll see how he comes out after this hand surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker, in an unsurprising twist, wholly disagrees with these comments from his upcoming opponent Gastelum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to think that I\u2019m one of the few guys who hasn\u2019t been in a lot of wars,&#8221; Robert Whittaker told reporters at a recent media day (transcript via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/9\/3\/17789024\/robert-whittaker-scoffs-at-kelvin-gastelums-claim-hes-been-in-too-many-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI haven\u2019t been hit that much. My last couple fights have been pretty hard, but look at the opponents and the caliber I\u2019m going up against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s telling himself that to make himself feel better,\u201d Whittaker added. \u201cBecause there are some bad guys out there that couldn\u2019t put me away, that couldn\u2019t touch me, and I walked through them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Robert Whittaker will perform when he battles Kelvin Gastelum in the new year? Do you think we&#8217;ll see any ill-effects from his battles with Yoel Romero?<\/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 9\/4\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker&#8217;s last two fights \u2014 both of which pitted him against Yoel Romero \u2014 have been absolute wars. In these fights, both he and Romero sustained incredible amounts of punishment, yet they both somehow managed to survive to the final bell each time. In the opinion of Kelvin Gastelum, who served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":284275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10582],"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>Robert Whittaker responds to Kelvin Gastelum&#039;s claim that he won&#039;t be the same after Romero wars | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker assures that we won&#039;t see any ill-effects from his wars with Yoel Romero when he battes Kelvin Gastelum.\" \/>\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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