{"id":132492,"date":"2015-03-10T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=132492"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:45:29","slug":"gastelum-surprised-ufc-let-fight-straight-hospital-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gastelum-surprised-ufc-let-fight-straight-hospital-stint\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastelum &#8220;Surprised&#8221; The UFC Let Him Fight Straight Out Of Hospital Stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/woodley-explains-decision-give-gastelum-9k-back\/woodley-vs-gastelum\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128331\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128331\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Woodley-vs-Gastelum.png\" alt=\"Woodley vs Gastelum\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Woodley-vs-Gastelum.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Woodley-vs-Gastelum-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Woodley-vs-Gastelum-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Woodley-vs-Gastelum-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was kind of taken by surprise that the UFC wanted me to continue to take this fight [following a bad weight cut that landed Gastelum in the hospital before his fight against Tyron Woodley]. I was surprised by that, but I was just going with the flow. They were telling me what to do, and I was doing it. The way I saw it, I signed the contract to do the job. Then I did it to the best of my ability that day.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI still plan on being the welterweight champion one day, and I\u2019m going to work my butt off to make sure that happens. Dana wants to punish me? He wants to put me up in the middleweight bracket? That\u2019s fine. I\u2019ll take my punishment. I\u2019ll take responsibility for my actions and face it, but it doesn\u2019t mean I won\u2019t try to fight my way back down to welterweight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a brand new interview, Kelvin Gastelum discusses his first career defeat, and his surprise that the UFC let the fight go on even though he was in the hospital the day before.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Transcript via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/03\/gastelum-to-take-my-punishment-after-missing-weight-but-still-targets-170-pound-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was kind of taken by surprise that the UFC wanted me to continue to take this fight [following a bad weight cut that landed Gastelum in the hospital before his fight against Tyron Woodley]. I was surprised by that, but I was just going with the flow. They were telling me what to do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":128331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gastelum &quot;Surprised&quot; The UFC Let Him Fight Straight Out Of Hospital Stint | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a brand new interview, Kelvin Gastelum discusses his first career defeat, and his surprise that the UFC let the fight go on ... 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