The UFC middleweight division is the place where everything is happening right now. However, the champion, Israel Adesanya, is not having a good year. He lost to Jan Blachowicz in a bid to become a champ-champ and capture the light heavyweight belt.

The loss was dominant, and it showed that Adesanya needs to put on more weight before he can fight at light heavyweight. However, middleweight is a whole another realm. He is undefeated in his entire career at middleweight and has a record of 20-1.

Amazingly, he has won 15 of his 20 fights via knockout. One of those fights was his match against the former champion Robert Whittaker. He knocked Whittaker out in the second round to start a dominant hold over the middleweight division.

He uploaded a tweet on Twitter hyping up a potential rematch with Whittaker after Whittaker continued his amazing run of form. The Australian has not lost in the three fights after his loss to Adesanya and looks like he’s in the form of his life.

Adesanya’s tweet had the caption “TOO MUCH HYPE” and a link to a YouTube video that was a compilation of his wins. Meanwhile, there was another video uploaded in the tweet which was a snippet of Whittaker saying, “I think Israel Adesanya isn’t as good as he thinks he is.”

The video then cut to Adesanya knocking ‘The Reaper’ out. Despite all of this, Whittaker and Adesanya don’t share a lot of animosity between them and genuinely respect each other. It’s a refreshing change from all the other rivalries in the sport.

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Adesanya was an exciting prospect when he faced Whittaker at UFC 243. He had a lot of momentum going into the fight and was undefeated in his entire career. However, Whittaker was his toughest test by far and the relatively younger champion was on a roll as well.

Nevertheless, Whittaker couldn’t keep up with Adesanya’s faints and tricks and got knocked out in the second round. It was a premature loss for a promising fighter, and Whittaker has since turned it around. He’s next in line for a title shot and looks primed to beat Adesanya.

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