Daniel Cormier thinks Robert Whittaker weighing in as the backup for the next UFC middleweight title fight is the right move. Whittaker (26-7 MMA, 17-5 UFC) scored a first-round knockout of Ikram Aliskerov in Saturday’s UFC on ABC 6 main event at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After the finish, Whittaker expressed interest in serving as the backup for the UFC 305 headliner between champion Dricus Du Plessis (21-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) and Israel Adesanya (24-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) on Aug. 17 in Perth, Australia. With Whittaker’s only losses in the past 18 fights coming to Du Plessis and twice to Adesanya, Cormier sees everything to gain for Whittaker as a reserve. “He’s lost to Izzy twice, so that means it would be hard to get a third title fight,” Cormier said on his YouTube channel .
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