Robert Whittaker isn’t stepping out of the middleweight title picture just yet.
“The Reaper” successfully held his spot in the contenders’ line on Saturday with a unanimous decision win over Jared Cannonier in the co-main event of UFC 254 in Abu Dhabi. In the lead-up to the fight, much of the talk swirled around Cannonier cementing a championship opportunity with a win—especially with current champion Israel Adesanya recently naming Cannonier as future challenger—but Whittaker pressed pause on that narrative.
At the evening’s post-fight press conference, UFC President Dana White was in favor of booking Adesanya vs.