{"id":326314,"date":"2019-09-26T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326314"},"modified":"2019-09-26T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:03:54","slug":"israel-adesanya-on-robert-whittaker-ill-pick-him-apart-quite-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-on-robert-whittaker-ill-pick-him-apart-quite-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya on Robert Whittaker: &#8216;I\u2019ll pick him apart quite easily&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya has already established himself as one of the best middleweights in the world. With a record of 17-0, he is confident that his winning strategy will allow him to &#8220;pick apart&#8221; Robert Whittaker at UFC 243.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a big year for Adesanya. &#8220;The Last Stylebender&#8221; got tongues wagging in a riveting <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-234-results-israel-adesanya-defeats-anderson-silva-highlights\/\">three-round performance<\/a> against former UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva in February at UFC 234. His creative arsenal of striking attacks was enough to earn a unanimous decision victory. Most recently, Adesanya took on Kelvin Gastelum in a fight that exceeded expectation. Despite being a close match, the tides turned in Adesanya&#8217;s favour and he took home a<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/kelvin-gastelum-issues-statement-following-ufc-236-title-loss-to-israel-adesanya\/\">\u00a0decision win<\/a> after five fun rounds.<\/p>\n<p>He is confident he&#8217;ll also get the job done against Whittaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a guy I can pick apart easily,\u201d Adesanya said at the UFC 243 press conference (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/israel-adesanya-pick-apart-robert-whittaker-quite-easily-ufc-243\">MMA Junkie<\/a>.) \u201cA challenge I haven\u2019t faced before? I don\u2019t think so. He just does what he does very well. There\u2019s only a certain amount of awkwardness that he has that I haven\u2019t seen before, but he can try to prove me wrong. From what I see, though, I\u2019ll pick him apart quite easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya sees his height and reach as a major advantage. He has a near-7-inch reach advantage over the current middleweight champ and believes this give him the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have these attributes that I use very well, and I think what his camp might look at the last fight and think when Kelvin was able to get close,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cThat was just an error at our part and a good game plan on their part. But we\u2019ve taken care of those errors. I\u2019m going to be able to use my height and reach like I always have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since his UFC debut in 2018, Adesanya has garnered respect by being an active fighter and for maintaining his undefeated record. He has already accomplished 6 wins in under two years and won the UFC interim middleweight belt.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya believes he would be a more active champion than his opponent Whittaker has been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a champion, I\u2019ll be a lot more active as a champion than he\u2019s been, and I\u2019ll be a lot more active,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe not at the beginning because of timing and everything else, but I\u2019ll be an active champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker and Adesanya will battle for middleweight gold on October 6 in Melbourne, Australia. Do you think Adesanya has what it takes to pick apart Robert Whittaker?<\/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\/25\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya has already established himself as one of the best middleweights in the world. With a record of 17-0, he is confident that his winning strategy will allow him to &#8220;pick apart&#8221; Robert Whittaker at UFC 243. It&#8217;s been a big year for Adesanya. &#8220;The Last Stylebender&#8221; got tongues wagging in a riveting three-round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54472,"featured_media":319022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39449,10582,39610,52018],"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>Israel Adesanya on Robert Whittaker: &#039;I\u2019ll pick him apart quite easily&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Israel Adesanya is confident he will &#039;pick apart&#039; the current middleweight champion Robert Whittaker in the main event of UFC 242.\" \/>\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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