Michael Chandler put on a fight for the ages against Justin Gaethje at UFC 268. The two went back and forth and hit each other with everything they could.
Michael Chandler admits he got a little reckless at UFC 268 and made a big declaration going forward. Don't expect to see him fight like that too many more times.
“I don’t want to fight that way ever again, but 95% of the fight was just a good ol’ fashioned passionate scrap, you know?” UFC lightweight Chandler said during a recent appearance on Bussin’ With The Boys (h/t Nicole Bosco of MMA News). “5% of it was a little bit of, ‘Dude, what are you doing, man?’ Of course, I’ve gotten criticism like, ‘Hey, if you would have been a little more tactical and not try to put on a show, you would have won the fight.”
“But truthfully, I’m not just saying this. This sounds like something a loser of a fight would say,” he continued. “But it’s very genuine when I say it was the first time in my career Mike Beltran, the referee, grabbed my wrist, and it was that moment when I was about to get my hand raised or keep it down while my opponent got his hand raised or kept it down. And at that moment, when he grabbed my wrist, I was like, ‘Oh, shoot. There’s gonna be a winner and a loser right now.’ First time in my life.’”
The UFC title challenger picked the right fight to go crazy in as Justin Gaethje always brings it. Things didn't go Michael Chandler's way but he still has many exciting opportunities.
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