In the UFC middleweight division, there is reigning champion Israel Adesanya and former champion Robert Whittaker. After that there is a wide chasm, and then there is the rest of the division. That fact was obvious before UFC 271 and the top two UFC middleweights reinforced that over the course of the 25-minutes they battled inside the octagon at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas on Saturday night.
Adesanya walked away with his title, his perfect middleweight record and another win over Whittaker, but I think we will — and should — see these two scrap at least one more time.