Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler are known to have extremely exciting styles. Both men have had some classic fights in their short stints in the UFC.
Justin Gaethje has been known to stand and bang and test people's wills inside the cage. He doesn't plan on changing that when he takes on Michael Chandler at UFC 268.
“The dude comes to fight,” Gaethje told The Schmo (transcription via MMAFighting). “He loves fighting just as much as me. Styles make matchups and this is a stylistic matchup for the fans. Someone’s gonna get knocked out. Unless he turns into a b*tch and tries to turn this into a wrestling match the whole time. He’s talking about timid souls taking a step backwards. He’s gonna be a timid soul when he starts shooting for legs because he doesn’t like the power. That’s what I think.”
Although there is a lot of respect between the two competitors, Justin Gaethje isn't happy that he didn't get the opportunity to fight for the vacant lightweight back at UFC 262. Michael Chandler fought Charles Oliveira for the vacant lightweight title.
Justin Gaethje reminds everyone that he was the former lightweight interim champion and was the most recent person to fight for the belt. He understands that coming off a loss makes things complicated, he believes he should have been ahead of Michael Chandler.
“I was the most recent interim titleholder,” Gaethje said. “I see both ways to it. From the outside, being me, I was not happy. If I’m on the inside, if I’m running a $4 billion company, $5-6 billion company, then I’d probably want to try to have people forget about that guy. So yeah, they did what they wanted to do, had to do in their eyes. I was upset, but it doesn’t matter. Gotta go on, gotta keep working.
“I lost. I don’t think you should get a title shot off a loss, but I think the circumstances were special. Similar to the circumstances that got Cory Sandhagen a title fight. He just came off a loss and he jumped in there for a title fight, and the guy didn’t retire. There’s been other ones, other examples of people getting shots off of losses. So yeah, I thought that was a bullshit way of saying I shouldn’t get it, just because I lost. Circumstances were different and that’s what it was.”
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