Dillon Danis had an offer to make ahead of the middleweight clash between Francis Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker
One of the biggest middleweight showdowns in the history of the UFC is about to go down on the 12th of February at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
Defending middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will square off against former champion and opponent Robert Whittaker in the main event of UFC 271.
This will be Izzy’s fourth first title defense fight. He is coming off a brilliant display against Marvin Vettori at UFC 263.
Robert, meanwhile, is on a three-fight win streak ever since he lost his belt to Adesanya at UFC 243.
Elsewhere, Dillon Danis, who hasn’t fought in years, took to Twitter to make an offer to fans claiming that he would be giving away $1000 to one of his fans who liked his Tweet if Izzy sees off Whittaker.
Here is what Danis had to say:
“If Israel Adesanya beats Robert Whittaker I’ll give one person who likes this tweet $1000 Must be following to win! @dillondanis.”
Israel Adesanya expressed his desire to fight in Australia one more time before retirement
The Last Stylebender’ has been in a rich vein of form and has cleared the middleweight to an extent – he is set to face ‘The Reaper’ once again.
Having gained a name for himself in kickboxing, Adesanya made his UFC debut in early 2018. Very soon he became the interim middleweight champion (in a year).
This got him to challenge for the undisputed title. At UFC 243 in October 2019, Izzy faced Whittaker in his own backyard – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, Australia.
In only the second round, Adesanya beat Whittaker via. a brutal KO to become the middleweight champion.
Since then he has defended his title thrice.
In a recent Tweet, Adesanya expressed his desire to fight in Australia once again before retirement.
His Tweet read:
“I wanna fight in Aussie one more time before I call it quits.”
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