{"id":2906,"date":"2024-02-18T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2024-02-18T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:39:15","slug":"robert-whittaker-defeats-paulo-costa-via-close-unanimous-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/robert-whittaker-defeats-paulo-costa-via-close-unanimous-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker Defeats Paulo Costa Via Close Unanimous Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert Whittaker got back into the win column with a fantastic performance against the returning Paulo Costa in their UFC 298 co-main event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opening round was fairly competitive with Whittaker gaining a small advantage via a series of nasty calf kicks to Costa\u2019s lead leg. However, \u2018The Eraser\u2019 appeared to steal the round with a perfectly timed spinning heel kick in the closing seconds that had Whittaker on rubber legs. Despite being bloodied and battered, Whittaker appeared to be the fresher fighter throughout the second round.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Reaper\u2019 continued to attack Costa\u2019s leg and blasted the one-time title challenger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first, Costa pressed the action early but ate some stiff leg kicks from Whittaker. Both men fired off kicks, with Costa bringing them up high. Whittaker found big success with his lead hooks as Costa tried to establish his jab. Whittaker landed a massive right on Costa, who found more success at the end of the round. At the end of the round, Costa landed a massive spinning heel kick, which rocked Whittaker badly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"rtl\">Paulo\u2019s spinning heel kick tho \ud83d\ude0e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC298?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC298<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u0642\u0628\u0636\u062a \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0631\u0643\u0644\u0629 \u0628\u0627\u0648\u0644\u0648 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0639\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0627\u0631 \ud83d\ude0e<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC298?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC298<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hfQW3xYXjQ\">pic.twitter.com\/hfQW3xYXjQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1759238896032837882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second round started similarly to the second, with both men chopping each other&#8217;s legs. An eye poke briefly stopped the action, but Whittaker got right back into it. Whittaker lit Costa up with a good combination but ate a partial high kick from Costa. Whittaker connected with a huge right hand as Costa started to slow down in the fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"rtl\">Robert Whittaker Defeats Paulo Costa Via Close Unanimous Decision <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC298?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC298<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u0631\u0648\u0628\u0631\u062a \u0648\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0643\u0631 \u064a\u0647\u0632\u0645 \u0628\u0627\u0648\u0644\u0648 \u0643\u0648\u0633\u062a\u0627 \u0628\u0642\u0631\u0627\u0631 \u0625\u062c\u0645\u0627\u0639\u064a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QROLY3yCre\">pic.twitter.com\/QROLY3yCre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1759236908150858099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An early right-hand gets through for Costa, who eats another leg kick. A big knee got through for Costa, starting the round strong. Most of the round was a toss-up until the final minute, with Whittaker pulling ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Whittaker got back into the win column with a fantastic performance against the returning Paulo Costa in their UFC 298 co-main event. The opening round was fairly competitive with Whittaker gaining a small advantage via a series of nasty calf kicks to Costa\u2019s lead leg. However, \u2018The Eraser\u2019 appeared to steal the round with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}