{"id":325205,"date":"2019-09-12T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325205"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:17:04","slug":"uriah-hall-believes-robert-whittaker-will-withdraw-from-ufc-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/uriah-hall-believes-robert-whittaker-will-withdraw-from-ufc-243\/","title":{"rendered":"Uriah Hall believes Robert Whittaker will withdraw from UFC 243"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker is scheduled to defend his title opposite interim champion Israel Adesanya at UFC 243 this October. In the opinion of long-time middleweight contender Uriah Hall, however, this Whittaker-Adesanya matchup is doomed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Hall believes that Whittaker will ultimately withdraw from this fight, just as he did last time he was scheduled to fight in his native Australia. In that event, Hall says he&#8217;ll happily step in on short-notice to replace Whittaker against Adesanya \u2014 a fighter he seems to respect.<\/p>\n<p id=\"IL3BGT\">\u201cWe know Robert\u2019s going to get hurt \u2013 I\u2019ll be on deck. I\u2019ll be like, \u2018Hey man, let\u2019s crack,\u2019\u201d Hall told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/ufc-234-uriah-hall-robert-whittaker-israel-adesanya-volunteers-injury\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not even to say, \u2018Screw you, man,\u2019 \u2013 I think Israel is definitely one of the best. I\u2019m just excited because I feel like it\u2019s an anime thing going on between us. I\u2019m Dragon Ball Z, he\u2019s Naruto. So we\u2019ve got to have that classic matchup. We understand each other\u2019s style. I understand his style. I just want to test myself against the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uriah Hall will return to the cage this weekend at UFC Vancouver, where he&#8217;ll take on Brazilian jiu jitsu specialist Antonio Carlos Jr. In this fight, he&#8217;ll look to build on the momentum of a late 2018 knockout of Bevon Lewis.\u00a0In his next most recent outing, Hall was stopped by undefeated contender Paulo Costa, succumbing to a volley of strikes after enjoying some success of his own early on. The 35-year-old Ultimate Fighter 17 veteran is currently 14-9 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Does a future fight between Uriah Hall and Israel Adesanya interest you?<\/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\/12\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker is scheduled to defend his title opposite interim champion Israel Adesanya at UFC 243 this October. In the opinion of long-time middleweight contender Uriah Hall, however, this Whittaker-Adesanya matchup is doomed to fail. Hall believes that Whittaker will ultimately withdraw from this fight, just as he did last time he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":296391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10582,39610,10215],"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>Uriah Hall believes Robert Whittaker will withdraw from UFC 243 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Long-time middleweight contender Uriah Hall suspects Robert Whittaker will withdraw from his UFC 243 title fight with Israel Adesanya.\" \/>\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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