Check out this week’s “Spinning Back Clique,” MMA Junkie’s weekly show that takes a spin through the biggest topics in mixed martial arts. This week, our panel of “Gorgeous” George Garcia, Brian “Goze” Garcia and Nolan King discuss these five topics with host John Morgan: Israel Adesanya defended his middleweight title for the fifth time this past Saturday in the UFC 271 main event. After his win over former champion Robert Whittaker , whom he beat to win the belt in 2019, Adesanya rated himself a 7 of 10 . What did our panelists take away from the performance of the man who says he’s the second highest-paid fighter in the UFC behind Conor McGregor? With his second title loss to Adesanya, Whittaker had a better performance than their first go-’round but still came up short. Whittaker thinks a third title fight with the champ is inevitable .
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