Everyone seemed to be in agreement that Justin Gaethje's fight against Michael Chandler at UFC 268 was the fight of the year. Everyone except Justin Gaethje that is…
Justin Gaethje didn't feel like it was exciting and he blames himself. The UFC lightweight felt like he was trying to win more than he was trying to finish Michael Chandler.
“To be completely honest with you, I feel like that was kind of a boring fight when I was in there,” Gaethje told BT Sport. “Yeah, it just makes no sense. It’s the first time I’ve ever wanted to win more than to knock somebody out. So yeah, it was not good. I didn’t like it. I want to go back to just wanting to hurt somebody and finish them. But now that I have won and I got my title shot, I can go back to how it should be.”
Justin Gaethje really wants his title shot and he wants things to be as chaotic as possible. He wants to face the UFC lightweight champion in his home country of Brazil.
“I want to go down to Brazil; I want to fight in the chaos,” Gaethje said. “If you go back and listen to my early interviews, I said I wanted to go to the enemy territory like Brazil and fight in that chaos. So them screaming ‘I’m gonna die,’ 20,000 people, I am 100 percent confident that when I’m done, they’ll love me.”
Justin Gaethje appears to be the next man to get a UFC lightweight title shot. Conor McGregor does seem to be around to jump the line if things go wrong in the next couple of months.
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