{"id":319020,"date":"2019-07-10T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=319020"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:33:13","slug":"robert-whittaker-says-israel-adesanya-is-arguing-by-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/robert-whittaker-says-israel-adesanya-is-arguing-by-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker says Israel Adesanya is &#8216;arguing by himself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Whittaker has no plans to be goaded into a verbal spat with Israel Adesanya.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker and Adesanya are set to collide in a middleweight title unification bout on Oct. 5. The championship tilt will serve as UFC 243&#8217;s main event. While the headliner and event have been announced, a location has not. While many had anticipated Melbourne, UFC president Dana White revealed during the summer press conference 2019 that nothing is a lock yet.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya hasn&#8217;t let up in his trash talk towards Whittaker. &#8220;The Last Stylebender&#8221; has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-responds-to-jon-jones-offer-to-train-with-robert-whittaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blasted<\/a> &#8220;The Reaper&#8221; for posting memes of him online as well as responding favorably to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-offers-to-train-robert-whittaker-for-israel-adesanya-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Jones&#8217; offer to train with him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qTaxKaeM3Xk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s Brett Okamoto<\/a>, Whittaker weighed in on Adesanya&#8217;s tirade:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert Whittaker talks magnitude of Israel Adesanya fight, health after surgery [FULL] | ESPN MMA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTaxKaeM3Xk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess the biggest difference for this fight and this opponent is that he&#8217;s got a problem,&#8221; Robert Whittaker said. &#8220;He&#8217;s kind of like arguing by himself. All my other opponents realize they&#8217;re not gonna get a rise out of me and they&#8217;re just chill and we fight. In the weeks coming we&#8217;ve got a fight. Face-to-face, you know. We can resolve our differences then. It&#8217;s different with him because he has a one-man argument. So yeah, I don&#8217;t care. It is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker also said that part of the reason why he doesn&#8217;t put much stock into Adesanya&#8217;s words has to do with the fact that he doesn&#8217;t keep up with social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find some of the things he says funny as well. The thing is, I&#8217;m kind of under a rock. I don&#8217;t realize a lot of things are going on around me until people tell me. So I&#8217;m not very social media aware of what&#8217;s going on. It&#8217;s like someone will come to the gym and be like, &#8216;hey man did you see what Izzy said about you?&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;nah tell me.&#8217; And then they tell me in their words and it&#8217;s funny. I guess I&#8217;m just not aware. I&#8217;m just not very aware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think will come out on top when Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya collide at UFC 243?<\/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 7\/10\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Whittaker has no plans to be goaded into a verbal spat with Israel Adesanya. Whittaker and Adesanya are set to collide in a middleweight title unification bout on Oct. 5. The championship tilt will serve as UFC 243&#8217;s main event. While the headliner and event have been announced, a location has not. 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