Michael Bisping might be defending his UFC middleweight title against newly-crowned interim champion Robert Whittaker, but Yoel Romero is campaigning hard for a grudge match with the Brit.
Romero and Bisping have gone back-and-forth on social media and in interviews for the better part of a year, but tensions escalated when ‘The Count’ ripped up the Cuban flag and threw it at Romero’s corner during ‘Soldier of God’s’ fight with Whittaker at UFC 213.
Romero lost that interim championship bout via decision, losing out on the chance to challenge Bisping for the official belt in the fall.