{"id":327731,"date":"2019-10-09T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=327731"},"modified":"2019-10-09T02:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:30:37","slug":"kelvin-gastelum-believes-robert-whittaker-was-disappointing-at-ufc-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/kelvin-gastelum-believes-robert-whittaker-was-disappointing-at-ufc-243\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Gastelum believes Robert Whittaker was \u2018disappointing\u2019 at UFC 243"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum has opened up about Robert Whittaker&#8217;s performance against Israel Adesanya at UFC 243, calling it &#8216;disappointing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Gastelum was speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/10\/8\/20905805\/kelvin-gastelum-calls-robert-whittakers-performance-at-ufc-243-disappointing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMAFighting<\/a> during the recent Dominance MMA media day event as he gears up to face Darren Till at UFC 244 in New York City. The Ultimate Fighter 17 winner is coming off the back of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-236-results-israel-adesanya-defeats-kelvin-gastelum-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his own defeat to The Last Stylebender which took place back at UFC 236<\/a> in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>In a war that many called the Fight of the Year, Gastelum came up short in a unanimous decision defeat. Two months prior to that, however, he was scheduled to fight Whittaker himself in Melbourne, Australia \u2014 only for things to fall apart as The Reaper was forced to undergo emergency surgery for an abdominal hernia of the intestine and a twisted &amp; collapsed bowel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kelvin Gastelum Calls Robert Whittaker&#039;s Performance at UFC 243 &#039;Disappointing&#039; - MMA Fighting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v58B4Xq9GbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In regards to Whittaker&#8217;s showing at UFC 243, Gastelum had the following to say:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think it was rather disappointing the way that he performed. The reason I say that is I feel like I was robbed of an opportunity, and for him to go out there and perform the way that he did, was rather disappointing for me. I think I would\u2019ve dropped him like a sack of potatoes in February and he robbed me of that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;He didn\u2019t look good. I think he tried to imitate or take some things from my fight, where he was lunging in and kind of moving in with his head. I just figured he tried to take some of the stuff from my fight and implement it, and it just didn\u2019t end up going well. He didn\u2019t have the right footwork, he didn\u2019t have the right head movement, he didn\u2019t have the right boxing approach, and it didn\u2019t end up well for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum fight in the future?<\/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 10\/9\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum has opened up about Robert Whittaker&#8217;s performance against Israel Adesanya at UFC 243, calling it &#8216;disappointing&#8217;. Gastelum was speaking to MMAFighting during the recent Dominance MMA media day event as he gears up to face Darren Till at UFC 244 in New York City. The Ultimate Fighter 17 winner is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":299678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10397,10582,39610],"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>Kelvin Gastelum believes Robert Whittaker was \u2018disappointing\u2019 at UFC 243<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum hasn&#039;t held back when discussing Robert Whittaker&#039;s defeat to Israel Adesanya at UFC 243 last weekend.\" \/>\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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