{"id":221892,"date":"2017-02-08T12:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=221892"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:34:49","slug":"exclusive-derek-brunson-weighs-potential-gegard-mousasi-rebooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-derek-brunson-weighs-potential-gegard-mousasi-rebooking\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Derek Brunson weighs-in on potential Gegard Mousasi rebooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading up to UFC 200, top ranked middleweight Derek Brunson was set to face off with Gegard Mousasi in a highly anticipated middleweight showdown<\/a>. Unfortunately, leading up to the fight, Brunson was forced to pull out of the fight with vision issues.<\/p>\n

Now, ahead of his scheduled UFC 208 scrap against Anderson Silva this weekend in Brooklyn<\/a>, Brunson is 100% healthy and ready to move one step closer to a middleweight title shot. With that being said however, Brunson believes a rescheduled fight with Mousasi could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n

\"Derek<\/p>\n

He spoke to BJPenn.com in an exclusive interview to discuss the situation, and how the potential fight would play out, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cA patient me would beat Gegard Mousasi pretty easy, because he couldn\u2019t do anything with me. He wouldn\u2019t be able to take me down, I\u2019m not worried about that, I can take him down whenever I want to, and I\u2019m faster than him, my strikes are clean, I\u2019m not rushed and trying to just head hunt & knock people out, and I have a good cardio and I can grind with the best of them. So for sure, definitely that fight\u2019s going to happen eventually, we\u2019re both around the same age so we\u2019re eventually going to fight someday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI see Gegard doing interviews, Gegard, what really has Gegard done? I mean you say people respect his game, you just saw that fight. I respect him as a fighter, but by any means, I feel like Gegard has this super name value, like he\u2019s super dangerous. Not at all. He got knocked out by Uriah Hall, I finished Uriah Hall. He went back and avenged that loss, but he did it in a way that was best for him. He took him down and trapped his arm, but he cannot do that with me. So, I\u2019m not over infatuated with Gegard Mousasi, he wasn\u2019t very thrilled about fighting me when we had the fight lined up. And I\u2019ve never heard him call me out, he\u2019s just always had a remark about me about me and him, \u2018Anderson wouldn\u2019t fight me but he\u2019d fight Derek because of the name value\u2019 something like that. He said I didn\u2019t have a name. A whole bunch of chatter, but I haven\u2019t heard Mousasi pretty much raise his hand and say \u2018I want to fight Derek,\u2019 So he\u2019s just running his mouth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Gegard<\/p>\n

Only time will tell if the pair will meet in the Octagon in the future.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 2\/8\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading up to UFC 200, top ranked middleweight Derek Brunson was set to face off with Gegard Mousasi in a highly anticipated middleweight showdown. Unfortunately, leading up to the fight, Brunson was forced to pull out of the fight with vision issues. 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