Chael Sonnen says exercise is essential for each Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa.
Whittaker (25-7 MMA, 16-5 UFC) outlasted Costa (14-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) in an exhilarating battle on this previous Saturday’s UFC 298 co-main occasion at Honda Heart in Anaheim, Calif.
Whittaker fought as soon as in 2023, struggling a TKO loss to present middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 290. Costa has been far much less energetic, not preventing in 2023, and logging in only one combat a 12 months since 2018. Sonnen wish to see each fighters compete extra usually.
“Robert Whittaker is as true and pure of a fighter as I’ve ever seen,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel. “He’s an absolute lock to enter the Corridor of Fame. And after I have a look at Whittaker and the place he must go from now, it’s the identical evaluation that I’ll have a look at Paulo Costa and the place Paulo must go from now, which is sort of merely no extra breaks. No extra 12 months delays. No extra speaking about speaking, and assembly about conferences, and fascinated by considering. You bought to compete.
“Acquired to go in there, get that contract signed, get again in that coaching camp, and switch over as many performances as you possibly can. It’s the one factor that brings pause whenever you’re speaking about Robert Whittaker’s profession. The place ought to we go along with him now? Nicely, I have to know that he’s energetic. I have to know that he can tackle three fights a 12 months. The identical factor goes for Paulo Costa.”
Costa, 32, is now 1-3 in his previous 4 fights. The previous title challenger’s lone victory in that stretch came to visit Luke Rockhold in a Combat of the Evening struggle at UFC 278.
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