According to Israel Adesanya, it’s his co-main event pairing with Anderson Silva — not the middleweight championship headliner between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum — that has made UFC 234 a box-office hit Down Under.
"I'm just going to do me, and Whittaker, that's his Christmas gift for the next five years; [it's] me being on this card with Anderson that made the show sell out in 15 minutes," Adesanya recently told ESPN.
"This show wouldn't have sold out the way it did without me and Anderson, so he's [Whittaker] welcome.