Justin Gaethje ställs mot Eddie Alvarez som tränare för varsitt lag för den populära serien ”The Ultimate Fighter 26”. Gaethje tycker att Alvarez är en rolig motståndare för honom och sade i en intervju genom MMAUno att han ser framemot att möta honom i oktagonen.
I think it’s a great matchup for me. I’m much more athletic, faster, he’s getting older and he’s getting up there at the end of his career—that’s fact. I think my leg kicks are going to be very detrimental to his lead leg. I’m working at just getting better every day and I’m ready to fight Eddie Alvarez. I’ve been watching him since I was in high school, I was a fan of him, been a fan forever and I’m still a fan of his.
”It’s going to be a brutal fight.”@Justin_Gaethje explains his thoughts on being asked to coach and facing off against @EAlvarezFight! pic.twitter.com/Ap7V0GzBsF
— FOX Sports: UFC (@UFCONFOX) August 31, 2017
Trots att match mot Eddie Alvarez står på agendan finns även en annan motståndare som Gaethje är intresserad av att möta. Nämligen Tony Ferguson. Det ryktades en interim-match om lättviktsbältet men då hade hade Gaethje redan skrivit på papperna som coach under TUF 26.
I think it’s fact if I say that if I wasn’t coach of The Ultimate Fighter that I wouldn’t of got the interim title fight against Ferguson. Knowing that’s the case, that could’ve been something I could get like sad about, but fighting Eddie Alvarez does it for me. It’s something that I came to do as far as far as the challenge that he brings to the table. I would like to fight Tony. That’s the fight I want just in general. The way he carries annoys me. It would be fun to punch him in the face and he’s number two in the world right now.
Ferg — Justin Gaethje (@Justin_Gaethje) August 31, 2017
