Over the past few years, UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker has faced the kinds of setbacks that perhaps no fighter in history has ever dealt with.
Injuries are just part of the sport. But the 28-year old former “Ultimate Fighter” winner has endured far more than that – a bizarre stretch of illnesses and last-minute surgeries that have slashed his octagon appearances to three over the past two years.
In his most recent mishap, Whittaker was forced to pull out of UFC 234 in Melbourne just hours before he was to face Kelvin Gastelum.