{"id":24606,"date":"2025-07-26T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24606\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:47:08","slug":"robert-whittaker-vs-reinier-de-ridder-ufc-abu-dhabi-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24606\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker vs. Reinier de Ridder UFC Abu Dhabi scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"LEfp5J\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/1900\/robert-whittaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Whittaker<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5633\/reinier-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reinier de Ridder<\/a> scorecard at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1526\/ufc-abu-dhabi-whittaker-vs-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Abu Dhabi<\/a> shows how the judges scored their close fight Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p id=\"w1aOs7\">de Ridder remains perfect in his UFC career when he won a split decision over former UFC champion Whittaker in the main event (47-48, 48-47, 48-47). de Ridder is now 4-0 since joining the UFC.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pVCpTg\">It came down to the fourth round for the three judges of the fight. Mike Bell gave rounds 1, 3 and 4 to Whittaker for his 48-47 score, while judges Ben Cartlidge and David Lethaby gave de Ridder rounds 1, 3, and 4 for their 48-47 scores for de Ridder.<\/p>\n<p id=\"vMQNV0\">Whittaker has now lost two straight fights for the first time in the UFC since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Robert Whittaker vs. Reinier de Ridder scorecard at UFC Abu Dhabi shows how the judges scored their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[1930,64,63,19455,1931,786,585,1347,785,24298,19456,24297,24299,85,787,1396,2342,19454],"class_list":["post-24606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abu","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-de","tag-dhabi","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-reinier","tag-ridder","tag-robert","tag-scorecard","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-vs","tag-whittaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}