Robert Whittaker is on the road to recovery after suffering a gruesome teeth and gum injury against Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 308. Chimaev displaced Whittaker's bottom row of teeth with a face crank, forcing the Aussie to tap almost immediately.

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

I haven’t been able to bite down on an apple since I was like 19.” That’s what Robert Whittaker said about the state of his bottom teeth prior to his loss at UFC 308 in October, which saw Khamzat Chimaev lock in a tight submission hold that literally rearranged the inside of Whittaker’s mouth.

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

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.