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The Clinch

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder

26 JUL 2025 / Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Main event / Middleweight / 5 rounds scheduled

Reinier de Ridder vs Robert Whittaker

Reinier de Ridder, photograph by ReinierdeRidder Reinier de Ridder “RdR”

3-0-0 entering this bout

Age 34 · 6′4″193 cm

Won

No photograph on file Robert Whittaker “The Reaper”

17-6-0 entering this bout

Age 34 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
15/35
R1
20/34
16/38
R2
9/27
13/30
R3
20/28
14/24
R4
6/22
9/18
R5
11/31

Decision (Split) Round 5 · 5:00 Referee Marc Goddard

The cards

Judge Reinier de Ridder Robert Whittaker
Ben Cartlidge 48 47
Mike Bell 47 48
David Lethaby 48 47

Totals for the bout. No source on file publishes a round-by-round card.

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Reinier de Ridder Enters 1-0-0 against STRIKING
Robert Whittaker Enters 7-2-0 against GRAPPLING

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Reinier de Ridder    Robert Whittaker

Bout totals

67
Sig. strikes
66
192
Total strikes
70
41
To the head
62
26
To the body
4
0
To the legs
0
54
At distance
51
9
In the clinch
4
4
On the ground
11
2
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
1
0
Sub. attempts
0
9:06
Control time
0:36

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Reinier de Ridder 15/35 21/42 6/19 9/16 0/0 10/30 5/5 0/0 0/3 0 0:12
Robert Whittaker 20/34 21/35 19/33 1/1 0/0 19/33 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R2 Reinier de Ridder 16/38 29/58 12/32 4/6 0/0 15/36 0/0 1/2 1/3 0 2:04
Robert Whittaker 9/27 9/27 8/26 1/1 0/0 9/27 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Reinier de Ridder 13/30 32/51 10/24 3/6 0/0 10/26 0/0 3/4 1/2 0 2:39
Robert Whittaker 20/28 21/29 20/28 0/0 0/0 8/13 1/1 11/14 0/0 1 0:32
R4 Reinier de Ridder 14/24 37/48 10/18 4/6 0/0 12/21 2/3 0/0 0/3 0 1:56
Robert Whittaker 6/22 8/24 6/22 0/0 0/0 5/20 1/2 0/0 0/0 0 0:04
R5 Reinier de Ridder 9/18 73/83 3/12 6/6 0/0 7/15 2/3 0/0 0/4 0 2:15
Robert Whittaker 11/31 11/31 9/26 2/5 0/0 10/30 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 0:00

Who said so

Every field on this page is a claim made by a source, kept with the source attached. A lower rank is a source trusted further.

Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight No UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight No UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Marc Goddard UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Marc Goddard UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Ben Cartlidge 47 - 48. Mike Bell 48 - 47. David Lethaby 47 - 48. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Ben Cartlidge 47 - 48. Mike Bell 48 - 47. David Lethaby 47 - 48. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Decision - Split UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Split UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Middleweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Middleweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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