{"id":27322,"date":"2025-07-27T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27322\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:15:07","slug":"ufc-abu-dhabi-post-fight-show-reaction-to-reinier-de-ridders-razor-close-win-vs-robert-whittaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27322\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Abu Dhabi post-fight show: Reaction to Reinier de Ridder\u2019s razor-close win vs. Robert Whittaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"zZhTf4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5633\/reinier-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reinier de Ridder<\/a> just picked up the biggest win of his career as he outlasted former UFC middleweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/1900\/robert-whittaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Whittaker<\/a>, winning a razor close split decision in the main event of <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> to move to 4-0 in the UFC. Did \u201cRDR\u201d put himself in position to fight the winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5478\/dricus-du-plessis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dricus du Plessis<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5368\/khamzat-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1528\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p id=\"6AH3ih\">Following Saturday\u2019s Fight Night event, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee react to the card, de Ridder\u2019s victory over Whittaker, if the right fighter won, and discuss where the former ONE champion goes from here. Additionally, they discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4437\/petr-yan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petr Yan<\/a>\u2019s win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6252\/marcus-mcghee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus McGhee<\/a>, the bonus winners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5796\/steven-nguyen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Nguyen<\/a> breaking the UFC knockdowns record and Jason Herzog\u2019s performance as the referee in that fight, and much more.<\/p>\n<p id=\"CwLGSH\">Watch the UFC Abu Dhabi post-fight show above, or an audio-only version of the show can also be streamed below and on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?xcust=___sb__p_24145284__t_w__r_google.com__d_D&amp;id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id320642139&amp;referrer=sbnation.com\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" has-subtag=\"true\" data-cdata=\"{\" rewritten_url=\"\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL1RoZU1tYUhvdXJXaXRoQXJpZWxIZWx3YW5p\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27Z2RR39rjGrRcV1DiQ40J?si=5ZS0Lje7QbWITUd60cOb8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you get your pods.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder just picked up the biggest win of his career as he outlasted former UFC middleweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[4639,49,48,21191,698,4640,1138,641,700,701,638,8076,329,7000,21682,10368,20793,17054,18787,694,1317,82,696,640,702,3194,689,17053,21683],"class_list":["post-27322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abu","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-close","tag-de","tag-dhabi","tag-fight","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mma-fighting-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-post","tag-razor","tag-reaction","tag-reinier","tag-ridder","tag-robert","tag-s","tag-show","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos","tag-vs","tag-whittaker","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27322","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=27322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}