Former middleweight champion  Robert Whittaker has been calling for a fight against fellow former titleholder  Sean Strickland most of the year.  “I feel like we’ve both been in that top sort of the pond for a while circling each other,” Whittaker said during an appearance on the ” On Paper with Anthony Smith ” podcast in February. “I feel like for whatever reason we haven’t been matched up, but we’ve both been in proximity for a while