{"id":327152,"date":"2019-10-03T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=327152"},"modified":"2019-10-03T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:29:52","slug":"israel-adesanya-takes-a-shot-at-yoel-romero-in-latest-warning-to-robert-whittaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-takes-a-shot-at-yoel-romero-in-latest-warning-to-robert-whittaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya takes a shot at Yoel Romero in latest warning to Robert Whittaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current UFC interim middleweight champ Israel Adesanya has taken a shot at Yoel Romero in his latest warning to reigning division kingpin Robert Whittaker.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Adesanya (17-0 MMA) will square off with Robert Whittaker (20-4 MMA) in the headliner of this weekend&#8217;s highly anticipated UFC 243 pay-per-view event from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the event, &#8216;Stylebender&#8217; explained why he is a better fighter than &#8216;The Reaper&#8217; while taking a shot at Yoel Romero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the better fighter because you look at my last two five-round fights and you look at his last two five-round fights, obviously MMA math doesn\u2019t work that way, but you look at the way I am in the fifth round, even in my last fight, I showed out,\u201d Israel Adesanya told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/10\/israel-adesanya-warns-robert-whittaker-i-dont-strike-like-43-year-old-wrestler\">MMAJunkie<\/a>. \u201cYou look at the way he was in his last round of his last fight and how he looked against a 43-year-old wrestler (Yoel Romero). Now, I don\u2019t strike like a 43-year-old wrestler. I don\u2019t pick my shots like him. If I hurt you, I\u2019m not going to try and bum rush you and then gas out. I\u2019ll find the shot, and I\u2019ll put him away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel Adesanya is of course referencing Robert Whittaker&#8217;s two most previous five round wars with the aforementioned Yoel Romero.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/yoel-romero-has-israel-adesanya-on-his-radar\/\">&#8216;The Soldier of God&#8217;<\/a> fell just short in both of his attempts to defeat the UFC&#8217;s current middleweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>Yoel Romero is coming off a decision loss to Paulo Costa in his most recent effort at August&#8217;s UFC 241 event in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Israel Adesanya taking a shot at Yoel Romero prior to his UFC 243 title unification bout with Robert Whittaker? Do you think we will see an eventual scrap between &#8216;Stylebender&#8217; and &#8216;The Soldier of God&#8217;? Sound off in the comments section PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on BJPENN.com October 3, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current UFC interim middleweight champ Israel Adesanya has taken a shot at Yoel Romero in his latest warning to reigning division kingpin Robert Whittaker. Israel Adesanya (17-0 MMA) will square off with Robert Whittaker (20-4 MMA) in the headliner of this weekend&#8217;s highly anticipated UFC 243 pay-per-view event from Australia. 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