Middleweight champion Robert Whittaker doesn’t remember exactly when he got injured during his UFC 225 headliner with Yoel Romero , only that he couldn’t feel anything from his finger tips up to his forearm at the end of the first round. A thought crossed his mind. “This guy seems to be a jinx,” Whittaker told MMAjunkie on Thursday. “Every time I go up against him, I leave with a serious injury.” The first time Whittaker (20-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) defeated Romero (13-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) last year at UFC 213, to claim the interim middleweight title, he suffered a torn ligament in his knee. This time around, it was a broken right hand that hindered Whittaker for four-plus rounds and forced him into a gutsy performance to win their non-title bout via split decision last weekend in Chicago.
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