It would be hard to top Israel Adesanya’s coronation as middleweight champion, when he authored a second-round knockout of Robert Whittaker in the UFC 243 main event in October 2019.
Eugene Bareman, Adesanya’s coach at City Kickboxing, sees one way in which “The Last Stylebender” can surpass that performance when he faces Whittaker in a rematch at UFC 271 on Saturday in Houston.
“People aren’t going to agree with me, but the ultimate thing you can do in fight sports, I think, is not a knockout. It’s a whitewash,” Bareman recently told Submission Radio.