revealed he has an interest in boxing <\/a>once his UFC career comes to an end. <\/p>\nWith fighters such as Anderson Silva, Nate Diaz and Tony Ferguson already making the leap from the Octagon to the boxing ring, he hopes he could one day follow the same path.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it interests me for sure, certainly,\u201d Whittaker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely interests me, especially not actually having to go through the boxing circuit the way a lot of guys did.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can move straight up to these … UFC guys coming into boxing doing those sort of fights. You know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n
Whittaker hasn\u2019t announced his next opponent yet, but he has made it clear he\u2019d welcome a showdown with former champion Sean Strickland at the White House in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to fight Sean Strickland in front of the White House,\u201d Whittaker told Fox Sports Australia in October.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor one, I think it\u2019s going to be a monumental occasion. When are you ever going to be able to fight in front of the White House ever again?<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve been trying to fight Sean for the longest of times.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because I like that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volk dismisses retirement talk | 02:27<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been in the same circles for a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s still ranked three, which puts me right back into a Robert Whittaker eyes shock move to light heavyweight in 2026 conversation I want to be part of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker is plotting his return to the Octagon, with a shock move up to light heavyweight on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-374062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374062","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=374062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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