{"id":47364,"date":"2025-08-05T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47364\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:01:08","slug":"robert-whittaker-is-close-to-mma-retirement-says-ufc-middleweight-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47364\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker is close to MMA retirement, says UFC middleweight contender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Caio Borralho believes Robert Whittaker is getting close to retiring from mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Robert-Whittaker-2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Robert Whittaker\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we know, Robert Whittaker is one of the best middleweights of his generation. There are some out there who might dispute that but in reality, it\u2019s the truth. He has done some incredible things throughout the course of his career, which includes becoming UFC middleweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/robert-whittaker\/mma-analyst-gives-honest-thoughts-on-robert-whittakers-ufc-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA analyst gives honest thoughts on Robert Whittaker\u2019s UFC future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, after losses to Khamzat Chimaev and Reinier de Ridder, many have questioned what the future holds for Whittaker. He\u2019s still more than capable of mixing it up with the elite at 185 pounds but in equal measure, he\u2019s been in the game for a long time now. Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/robert-whittaker\/robert-whittaker-reflects-on-ufc-abu-dhabi-loss-to-reinier-de-ridder-this-isnt-the-end\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he is the only one who can determine<\/a> when he\u2019ll walk away, but it feels like his next fight is a must win.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, the aforementioned Borralho gave his thoughts on what\u2019s next for Robert Whittaker.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC middleweight Caio Borralho believes Robert Whittaker is getting close to retiring from mixed martial arts. As we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-47364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47364","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=47364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}