Robert Whittaker won’t fight at UFC 305 in Australia: ‘I’m no one’s replacement, I’m a main event fighter’

Robert Whittaker will not be competing in Perth.

This past Saturday, Whittaker picked up the 17th win of his UFC career, stopping short-notice replacement Ikram Aliskerov in the first round at UFC Saudi Arabia. Afterward, Whittaker revealed he wasn’t just dealing with an opponent change on short notice, he also had surgery to deal with an infection in his jaw shortly before heading out to Riyadh.

Speaking this week on The MMA Hour...