Israel Adesanya defeated Robert Whittaker in the highly expected rematch at UFC 271. Following the victory ‘The Last Stylebender’ is getting praise from every corner of the world. One of the fans to congratulate him also took credit for his win. This fan suggests the middleweight champion eating his toast, before the fight, was the reason for this success.

This fan is none other than one of the biggest personalities around the world, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. The Hollywood star indicated towards the video ‘The Last Stylebender’ posted after the weigh-ins and jokingly said that listening to his music and having ‘World Famous Rock Toast’ gave Adesanya the advantage to get over the line at UFC 271.

Also, ‘The People’s Champ’ praised the whole UFC 271 card for putting on astonishing fights throughout the night. ‘The Rock’ is a big UFC fan and generally enjoys the show and frequently comments about the fights.

Israel Adesanya had a tough time in the rematch

The middleweight king had taken the crown from ‘The Reaper‘ in their first bout at UFC 243. In their first match, he demolished Whittaker. However, in the rematch, things went differently. ‘Bobby Knuckles’ struggled in the first round, but he kept his composure. After the first round, he mixed the striking and takedown really well to make the fight competitive.

Although Adesanya had already anticipated Whittaker to follow this game plan, he didn’t think it would work against him. The judges’ scorecard suggests Adesanya won 4-1, but it looked a lot closer than that.

Whittaker in the post-fight octagon interview said that he believed that he did enough to win the fight. Looking at the fight, after the first round, every round was close, and it was entirely different from their first meeting.

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Nevertheless, the Nigerian-born is still the UFC’s middleweight champion. Also, he has his next title challenger ready; Earlier, Jared Cannonier had an impressive outing against Derek Brunson, and he took full advantage of the microphone and asked the UFC president for a title shot.

Apart from Sean Strickland, there aren’t any contenders in the UFC’s middleweight division. It would be interesting to see if ‘The Killa Gorilla‘ gets the title opportunity.

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