The UFC 234 card suffered a devastating blow just hours before the first fight was scheduled to begin when UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker was forced to withdraw from his planned title defense against Kelvin Gastelum . Whittaker (20-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) came down with a hernia issue that forced him to be hospitalized. He required surgery, thus erasing any chance of him fighting Gastelum (16-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) in tonight’s pay-per-view headliner, which takes place at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia

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Twitter reacts to Robert Whittaker’s stunning withdrawal from UFC 234 – MMA Junkie

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