De Ridder's Abu Dhabi victory was as close as it gets. Roughly half of all fans and media members scored it for Whittaker.

Reinier de Ridder secured a split decision victory over Robert Whittaker at UFC on ABC 9 in Abu Dhabi. Despite two judges favoring de Ridder 48-47, on ...

Robert Whittaker is keeping his chin high after a super tight split decision loss to Reinier de Ridder in their UFC Abu Dhabi main event.

Whittaker (26-9 MMA, 17-7 UFC) was lost a split decision to Reinier de Ridder (21-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC) in Saturday's main event at ...

Whittaker and de Ridder faced off in the main event of UFC Abu Dhabi last weekend. After a hard-fought five-round bout, the ...

Since moving up to middleweight, ‘The Reaper’ has never found himself coming off of back-to-back losses until now. Robert ...

Reinier de Ridder seemed fairly surprised to hear the announcer read out a dissenting scorecard in the wake of his split decision win over Robert Whittaker at ...

UFC exec Dave Shaw explains why the promotion will not change its main event booking style to be more attractive to local ...

He’s talked about retirement down the road, but isn’t letting this competitive fight that could have gone either way rush him ...

Many are backing ‘Borz’ to end the South African champion’s undefeated run inside the Octagon. In fact, Caio Borralho thinks ...

Prochazka first faced Pereira in November 2023, fighting the Brazilian for the vacant title, which the latter won with a second-round TKO. In their rematch last June, 38-year-old Pereira achieved the ...