Whittaker (26-8 MMA, 17-6 UFC) was submitted by Chimaev in the first round of their middleweight bout at UFC 308. As soon as Chimaev secured a face crank on Whittaker, the former champion immediately tapped. Whittaker’s quick reaction was due to getting his bottom teeth moved out of place, an injury which required dental surgery.

Following UFC star Robert Whittaker's loss to Khamzat Chimaev, doctors discovered the middleweight had a massive cyst in his mouth.

Robert Whittaker opens up about his dental surgery after his UFC 308 loss to Khamzat Chimaev, revealing a long-standing injury and a huge cyst.

After ragdolling ‘Bobby Knuckles’, the Swede locked in a face crank so brutal that it forced his opponent to tap. The squeeze was so tight that it actually broke Whittaker’s jaw to such an extent that the Aussie’s teeth moved out of place.

Robert Whittaker entered the octagon for the third time in 2024 when he suffered a first-round submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 308.

Robert Whittaker gives an update about his teeth after Khamzat Chimaev dislocated them at UFC 308 earlier this past October.

Following his submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev in which the former UFC middleweight champ had his mandible broken, Robert ‘the Reaper’ Whittaker revealed he simply had surgery to remove the teeth in question.