{"id":135252,"date":"2015-04-02T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=135252"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:40:27","slug":"gustafsson-nearly-quit-mma-loss-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gustafsson-nearly-quit-mma-loss-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustafsson: I Nearly Quit MMA After Loss to Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“It has definitely been my most difficult period in life so far. I was completely serious about quitting MMA. I don’t care really about the title, it was that it happened in front of my home crowd. My cousins ??were in place. It just took it too hard. I didn’t have the will to continue. I was really close to quitting. But I have received so much love from fans, loved ones and my team. I had to bite the sour apple and now I have a new fight that made me very motivated. If I had not wanted to do this anymore, I would have stopped. But I want to continue. There is no doubt about it. No one is forcing me. I’m not doing this for money, but to be the best in the world.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Gustafsson just suffered a brutal loss at the hands of Anthony “Rumble” Johnson on January 24, 2015. Gustafsson sat down with Sarp Yesil<\/a> at Expressen and expressed that the loss almost drove him to retirement.<\/p>\n

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