{"id":348501,"date":"2020-04-30T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=348501"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T18:08:56","slug":"israel-adesanya-glad-robert-whittaker-is-starting-to-find-that-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-glad-robert-whittaker-is-starting-to-find-that-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya &#8220;glad&#8221; Robert Whittaker is &#8220;starting to find that balance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker recently opened on up on feeling &#8220;burnt out.&#8221; Israel Adesanya, the man that took Whittaker&#8217;s title, is glad to see his former foe working through these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker initially opened up on his troubles in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wwHTnF\">\u201cThat second [Yoel] Romero fight, it took heaps out of me,\u201d Whittaker said. \u201cAnd not just the fight itself, but the bullshit that surrounded it with my [injured] hand and so on. But you keep going. Even with the illnesses I had too, I was out of the Octagon but working twice as hard because I felt like I\u2019d let a lot of people down. So while I wasn\u2019t fighting, I never rested. You can\u2019t say \u2018hey, maybe I\u2019m burnt out\u2019. As soon as one fight is over, you have another title fight on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Adesanya and Whittaker exchanged a bit of trash talk before their 2019 fight, Adesanya is glad Whittaker is working through his issues.<\/p>\n<p>As the reigning champ puts it, there&#8217;s a lot more to life than fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRob, recently I read an article about him on the sand dunes and he had this epiphany where he was just like, \u2018Huh what am I?\u2019 and I kinda liked that for him,\u201d Adesanya told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/04\/ufc-israel-adesanya-happy-robert-whittaker-addressing-personal-issues-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m happy for him that he realized that before it was too late because there\u2019s more important things in this world than fighting. He\u2019s got a family, he\u2019s got friends and other things that are more important. Definitely, fighting is really important, but I\u2019m happy that he made that realization that this s**t ain\u2019t everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this s**t is gonna end one day and then what are you gonna be left with? Are you gonna be set up for life, or are you gonna be set up for life and have nothing in your personal life? You have to balance it, so I\u2019m glad he\u2019s starting to find that balance now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Israel Adesanya?<\/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 4\/30\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker recently opened on up on feeling &#8220;burnt out.&#8221; Israel Adesanya, the man that took Whittaker&#8217;s title, is glad to see his former foe working through these issues. Whittaker initially opened up on his troubles in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. \u201cThat second [Yoel] Romero fight, it took heaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":319022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39449,10582,39610],"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>Israel Adesanya &quot;glad&quot; Robert Whittaker is &quot;starting to find that balance&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker recently opened on up on feeling &quot;burnt out.&quot; Israel Adesanya, the man that took his title, is glad for him.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-glad-robert-whittaker-is-starting-to-find-that-balance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Israel Adesanya &quot;glad&quot; 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