Media Rob Whittaker speaks on his loss to Chimaev

[Unheralded Truth]

"I felt amazing, the cut went amazing so I felt strong, fit. I was focused and I was locked in, everything was picture perfect. Honestly, I can't take that away and say otherwise. Within seconds of our fight I felt comfortable standing with him, like real comfortable. But then the dude drops to like a millimeter *laughs*, how do you stop that takedown? Like
understandably we did a lot of wrestling, did a lot of stuff, a lot of wall work, but mate, it's so hard to replicate that takedown with that sort of commitment. You know, props to him!
The guy knows his strengths. It was a great takedown, a beautiful takedown. But then we get to the wall work and I felt good. Like he has a heavy sag, he's not ridiculously strong or anything like that, but a really heavy sag and was really good in making me work. Like making sure that he was always active, reaching for underhooks, reaching for ankle picks,
trying to get a hook in. So he was making me work all the time. But even then, I knew that the squeeze he was pushing on was going to be very hard to be able to sustain. And I was
starting to feel some space opening up later on. Obviously it happens, we transition and then mate, he puts his forearm across my face for the face crank. And it was just picture
perfect. Like, landed square between, you know that deeper part between your chin and lip? It hits right there, and instantly my teeth gave out. Instantly and like, mate, the squeezing
after this didn't help *laughs*."

"What do you do? Everyone and their friends saw the photos, and also, with that; I'm dirty at you DC! I'm dirty at you bro, because the Doctor took a photo and was like 'just
gonna show Dana so that they know hat happened' and shows it to DC there. And DC puts it everywhere, OK? Why you have to do me like that, right? But yeah, the teeth
went straigth in and I just couldn't figth out of it, like I could feel my teeth in the middle of my mouth. I was done. And hats off to Chimaev who had a plan, went in there and
executed it and got the W, man. It's upsetting. I don't like losing like that, but it is what it is. Now I think he should go straight to Dricus, as I don't think sitting out should be
rewarded ever, right? But not my call, not my decision."

 

[payton]

I'd call it quits.

 

[Marko Polo]

Thanks for the cliff notes too, YouTube’s becoming less user friendly by the day

 

[Domitian]

Probably shouldn't let Rob know there was a lot of dumb fans out there saying he quit or got paid off or whatever so the pic was necessary to put out.

 

[Pompey Junglist]

Nice, candid summary.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Probably shouldn't let Rob know there was a lot of dumb fans out there saying he quit or got paid off or whatever so the pic was necessary to put out.

Someone immediately made a thread saying as much with countless people agreeing. Suredawg gonna Suredawg.

 

[Conan the K-9]

Probably shouldn't let Rob know there was a lot of dumb fans out there saying he quit or got paid off or whatever so the pic was necessary to put out.

After all these dumb posts about gourmet Chen Chen out of this world squeeze force, it’s great that DC put this pic out and we all know it was just a previous injury.

 

[Domitian]

Someone immediately made a thread saying as much with countless people agreeing. Suredawg gonna Suredawg.

It was cringe as fuck that people were attacking Rob's integrity with those accusations. How can anyone watch Rob's career and come to the conclusion he would quit or take some bribe? Not only that but he would basically give up a title fight opportunity. Ridiculous.

 

[omawho402]

Robert is a great fighter with heart and determination, he will be back.

 

[World eater]

Giving props to his oponent, not going for weak excuses, praising his camp crew. What’s not to like? And people still wonder why he has so many fans.

 

[payton]

Someone immediately made a thread saying as much with countless people agreeing. Suredawg gonna Suredawg.

What with the new avi? did u lose a bet?

 

[OleBuffalo]

Jesus the experience of feeling your teeth fall to the middle of your mouth sounds like the stuff of nightmares. I can’t believe it’s something that can be fixed easily and reliably enough to come back next year without issue

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

After all these dumb posts about gourmet Chen Chen out of this world squeeze force, it’s great that DC put this pic out and we all know it was just a previous injury.

I imagine the squeeze didn't help, and chimaev still treated whittaker like a little boy the whole fight, he was much stronger than him

 

[Conan the K-9]

I imagine the squeeze didn't help, and chimaev still treated whittaker like a little boy the whole fight, he was much stronger than him

Rob disagrees with you for the most, if you listen to his interview.

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

Rob disagrees with you for the most, if you listen to his interview.

rob said he wasn't overwhelmingly strong but the fight leads me to believe he was since rob couldn't break his grip for nearly 3 minutes and he was getting moved around the fence easily. Maybe it's grappling technique rather than strength, or both.

 

[svmr_db]

Healthy teeth Rob wins the rematch.

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

Healthy teeth Rob wins the rematch.

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