{"id":309974,"date":"2019-04-16T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=309974"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:16:45","slug":"yoel-romero-to-israel-adesanya-see-you-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/yoel-romero-to-israel-adesanya-see-you-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero to Israel Adesanya: &#8216;See you soon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the weekend, in the co-main event of UFC 236, undefeated UFC middleweight contender Israel Adesanya became the interim champion with a dazzling decision defeat of the dangerous Kelvin Gastelum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adesanya&#8217;s thrilling victory over Gastelum caught the attention of pretty much every member of the MMA community. That includes former middleweight title challenger Yoel Romero, who sent the new interim champion a quick message post fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What level boss am I ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stylebender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stylebender<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/seeyousoonboi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#seeyousoonboi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iluhju?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iluhju<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Peoples Champ (@YoelRomeroMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoelRomeroMMA\/status\/1117977872529076224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What level boss am I?&#8221; Yoel Romero write to Israel Adesanya on Twitter, before concluding with a pair of his patented hashtags. &#8220;seeyousoonboi #iluhju.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With his victory over Kelvin Gastelum, Israel Adesanya is now 6-0 in the UFC, having bested Rob Wilkinson, Marvin Vettori, Brad Tavares, Derek Brunson, Anderson Silva and now Gastelum in a little over a year\u2019s time. He can now look forward to a title-unifying battle with undisputed middleweight champion Robert Whittaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Olympic wrestler Yoel Romero, on the other hand, has been out of action since he battled Whittaker for a second time, in June of 2018. He&#8217;s since been linked to a middleweight showdowns with undefeated contender Paulo Costa and former Strikeforce champ Ronaldo &#8220;Jacare&#8221; Souza, but unfortunately these bouts have not yet come to fruition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Romero and Adesanya fight in the future? If they do, who do you think will come out on top? 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