Robert Whittaker may be a burgeoning matchmaker.
The UFC middleweight champion already has his next opponent lined up after Israel Adesanya defeated Kelvin Gastelum in a Fight of the Year candidate to nab the interim belt. The matchup set-up the unification bout for later in the year. Whittaker took to Instagram to throw his support behind the idea for a spectacular double-main event with the lightweight unification bout between Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Dustin Poirier as well.
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