Alexander Gustafsson har under de tre senaste åren förlorat två stora matcher mot Jon Jones och Daniel Cormier via domslut och blev också knockad av Anthony Johnson inför de svenska fansen på Tele2 Arena.
Förlusterna har tagit hårt på Gustafsson, som nyligen flyttade till San Diego för att träna på Alliance MMA där han vill försöka hitta gnistan igen.
Det här berättade Gustafsson under en intervju med ”The MMA Hour”:
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I’m just feeling like I have a tough time with my motivation. It goes from time to time. Some days it’s better, some days it’s a little bit worse.
It’s been getting worse, that I’m losing that happiness in training, that motivation. If you just train because you have to train, it’s not the right reasons. It’s not always shine and good feelings in training. But when it comes down to it you need to have that happiness and motivation in training.
If you don’t have that happiness in you, it’s gonna be tough to motivate yourself in those hard rounds, last rounds.
It’s hard to just go one day from another to being one of the best fighters in the world to just stop doing what you love to do. I am a fighter and it’s what I do, what I live for. Quitting is actually not an option if you put the cards on the table. It’s just emotions, feelings. It’s what you have to battle every day as an athlete.
