{"id":365142,"date":"2025-12-22T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:45:09","slug":"robert-whittaker-the-latest-ufc-star-mulling-boxing-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365142\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker the Latest UFC Star Mulling Boxing Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Whittaker-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Robert Whittaker, UFC Paris\" title=\"Whittaker\"\/>Robert Whittaker, UFC Paris media day Credit: Jay Anderson\/Cageside Press<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was 50-year old Anderson Silva crushing Tyron Woodley in a battle of former UFC champs in the boxing ring over the weekend, but now it\u2019s Robert Whittaker considering crossing over.<\/p>\n<p>In fact it very much was.\u00a0Whittaker, affectionately known as \u201cBobby Knuckles\u201d and actually nicknamed \u201cThe Reaper,\u201d suggested a jump to the \u201cSweet Science\u201d on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtQtqfGjOzM\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">MMArcade Podcast<\/a> recently. The comments came in response to the Silva vs. Woodley fight, with Whittaker\u2019s co-host noting that Woodley had a \u201crough go\u201d in the match, which took place at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida on the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua undercard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnocked him out in the second. That\u2019s wild,\u201d stated Whittaker, apparently in awe of Silva\u2019s latest feat, and suggesting he could join Silva and Woodley in the boxing realm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might be on the next card with him! It depends how much he\u2019s getting paid. That was a big card, Netflix card. I\u2019m sure the paycheck was considerable,\u201d exclaimed Whittaker. \u201cI think everyone likes to throw hands for a decent paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cYeah, it interests me for sure, certainly,\u201d Whittaker stated later, asked if he would move to boxing after his UFC career wraps. \u201cYeah. It definitely interests me, especially like, not actually having to go through the boxing circuit the way a lot of guys did. If I can move straight up to these like, what are you going to call them? What sort of fights are these UFC guys that are coming into boxing doing? Those sort of fights. You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI think there\u2019s some money to be made there. I think it keep me fit. I think it\u2019s definitely an aspect of the sport that I enjoy. I\u2019ve always loved striking. So to move into that field would be cool. It would be a nice, fresh change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker is coming off back-to-back losses against Khamzat Chimaev (who went on to win the UFC\u2019s 185lb title) and Reinier de Ridder. The de Ridder fight was Whittaker\u2019s lone contest of 2025. He does not currently have a fight scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous mixed martial artists have made the transition to boxing in recent years, to varying degrees of success. Those include Nate Diaz, Ben Askren, Vitor Belfort, Jose Aldo, Cris Cyborg, Silva, Woodley, and of course Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker, UFC Paris media day Credit: Jay Anderson\/Cageside Press Maybe it was 50-year old Anderson Silva crushing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,12059,802,4736,786,15810,15803,11877,15805,801,10280,785,2843,15808,5963,15804,15809,85,15806,787,15807],"class_list":["post-365142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bellator","tag-boxing","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-gsp","tag-invicta","tag-jon-jones","tag-lfa","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fc","tag-pfl","tag-rizin","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-titan-fc","tag-ufc","tag-wsof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365142","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=365142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}