{"id":341,"date":"2022-10-08T00:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=341"},"modified":"2022-10-08T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:18:41","slug":"justin-gaethje-said-this-is-the-only-way-hed-fight-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/justin-gaethje-said-this-is-the-only-way-hed-fight-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Gaethje Said This Is The Only Way He\u2019d Fight Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conor McGregor isn\u2019t Justin Gaethje\u2019s top priority right now, and there\u2019s a reason for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaethje, who had successful nose surgery over the summer, hopes to be back in the game in the first quarter of 2023. He was questioned about the possibility of a meeting with McGregor \u2014 two of the most thrilling athletes in the history of the sport \u2013 during an interview with MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaethje said that McGregor previously had the chance to compete against him, but McGregor chose to compete against Donald Cerrone after more than a year away from the sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_32396\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RMkLgYAZY7k?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf everybody would just remember correctly, I fought Cowboy, I beat him and then he fought Cowboy right after that,\u201d Gaethje told MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was primed and ready to go. It sounds to me like he\u2019s off taking steroids right now. He hasn\u2019t been drug tested by USADA in quite some time. I\u2019m looking for fair competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaethje is open to taking on McGregor in terms of his fighting career, but if he believes that the former two-division champion is accurate, he wants an even playing field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf he\u2019s on steroids, then give me steroids and let\u2019s go, I\u2019m down with that,\u201d Gaethje said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy health is my biggest factor. I have never taken a performance-enhancing drug, and I do not want to fight people that are taking performance enhancing drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McGregor\u2019s management company Paradigm Sports declined to comment when MMA Fighting contacted them about Gaethje\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t even know how it works, I don\u2019t even know how steroids work,\u201d Gaethje said. \u201cI\u2019m sure there\u2019s windows, I\u2019m sure it will [eventually] be fine, I\u2019m sure he can come back and be clean, but the fact that he hasn\u2019t been drug tested tells me he\u2019s taking steroids, whether it\u2019s to heal his leg or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf I break my leg, I\u2019m not taking steroids to heal my leg. He had the chance to fight me, he didn\u2019t fight me. He picked \u2018Cowboy,\u2019 so whatever. Who knows? Maybe. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s much more confident now that he can beat me, he certainly didn\u2019t take the fight then because he wasn\u2019t confident, so maybe he\u2019s more confident now and more willing to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McGregor has been recovering from a severe leg injury he sustained against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor isn\u2019t Justin Gaethje\u2019s top priority right now, and there\u2019s a reason for it. Gaethje, who had successful nose surgery over the summer, hopes to be back in the game in the first quarter of 2023. He was questioned about the possibility of a meeting with McGregor \u2014 two of the most thrilling athletes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}