Före detta WSOF-mästaren Justin Gaethje berättade under gårdagen att han nu har skrivit kontrakt med UFC och väntar nu ivrigt på att göra sin debut i organisationen. Gathje har under sin professionella karriär gått obesegrad med 17-0, varav 14 avslut via KO/TKO.
Den 28-årige amerikanen vill nu visa vad han går för mot en av de bästa i divisionen och nämner namn som obesegrade Khabib Nurmagomedov, topprankade Tony Ferguson och Edson Barboza.
Via ’MMAJunkie’:
To be honest with you, I looked in the mirror and I said three names to me: Khabib, Ferguson and Barboza, and I almost had a panic attack when Barboza came to mind; right when that came to my mind, I said, all right, that’s the mother(expletive) that I’m fighting. I called my manager, and I said, ‘This is who I want.’ Who knows? That’s just what I’m looking for right now. Obviously, I’m an idiot. No one’s in there asking for the most dangerous mother(expletive) on the planet.
There’s not quit in me, and I’ve seen (Barboza) quit. That would be my intentions, but Michael Johnson beat him, so hell, that would be just as intriguing to me. Any of those fights. I want to prove that I’m the best, and I have to fight the best.
I’m not saying I’m going to go and beat everybody, but in due time, I will beat everybody. I might take a couple losses on the way, but this sport really just comes down to fractions of inches and fractions of seconds between success and defeat, so that’s the way I look at every single fight. Every exchange that I’ve ever been into in a fight, that’s my mindset, is I’m going to be the object with the most force going into the exchange, into the car crash. That’s what I do, and I’m going to go in there and do the same thing.
Gaethje gick under sin tid i WSOF med 10-0 och har gått två matcher som ansågs vara ’Fight of the Year’ mot Louis Palmino. Experterna tror inte att Gaethje kommer att ha samma typ av framfart i UFC, men han tror själv att det inte kommer att förändras.
I’m 17-0 with 14 knockouts. That ‘0’ to me says I haven’t been knocked out unconscious in a fight, so if you’re saying I’m taking too much damage, I don’t think it’s based off of much logic. I do take shots. I roll with the punches. Two objects with the same mass, it’s force against force. Which won has the most force? That’s the game I play.
I’m telling you, that’s what this is. It’s timing. It’s attitude. So, no, those are what I’m the best at, and that’s what this sport is if you want to be successful and the best: a little bit of luck, perseverance, a lot of skill. That will (expletive) take you a long way.
Träningen har pågått non-stop för Gaethje sedan december då han började förbereda sig för det nya kontraktet med UFC. Han är nu redo att gå match så fort han blir erbjuden en motståndare.
Now I get a chance to prove I’m the best in the world. ’ve been saying for forever that I felt like a coward every time I said that I was the best in the world because I wasn’t in a position to fight the best in the world. Now I am, so I can say that. One fight at a time. I don’t care who my second, third, fourth fight is. One fight right now. Like I said on Twitter, I want the best, scariest dude that they’re going to give me.
I’m looking for a challenge. I’m looking to lose. I don’t give a (expletive) about any of that. If I can fight for seven minutes agains anybody, the fans will get their money’s worth, and my reputation will go sky-high.
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