{"id":216337,"date":"2025-10-16T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216337\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:12:07","slug":"ufc-vancouver-full-fight-reinier-de-ridder-edges-robert-whittaker-in-close-five-round-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216337\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vancouver full fight: Reinier de Ridder edges Robert Whittaker in close five-round war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reinier de Ridder&#8217;s short run in the UFC has been quite impressive, especially with whom he beat in his most recent outing.<\/p>\n<p>In July at UFC on ABC 9, de Ridder, a former ONE Championship two-division titleholder, picked up arguably the biggest win of his career, defeating former UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker. The two went toe-to-toe and got in wild grappling exchanges over the course of 25 minutes. In the end, after a competitive, and hard-fought bout, the Dutchman was rendered the winner by split decision.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>You can watch de Ridder&#8217;s big win over Whittaker in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>De Ridder (21-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC) returns to the cage Saturday in the UFC Fight Night 262 (ESPN+) main event at Rogers Arena in Vancouver\u00a0against Brendan Allen (25-7 MMA, 13-4 UFC), who replaced an injured Anthony Hernandez on short notice.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/10\/15\/ufc-vancouver-full-fight-reinier-de-ridder-vs-robert-whittaker\/86694572007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Vancouver full fight: Reinier de Ridder vs. Robert Whittaker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Vancouver full fight: Reinier de Ridder vs. Robert Whittaker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder&#8217;s short run in the UFC has been quite impressive, especially with whom he beat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,15958,641,638,15957,15959,82,640],"class_list":["post-216337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-de-ridder","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-reinier-de-ridder","tag-robert-whittaker","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}