{"id":246132,"date":"2017-08-07T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=246132"},"modified":"2017-08-07T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:21:05","slug":"chris-weidman-discusses-viral-punchface-photo-kelvin-gastelum-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/chris-weidman-discusses-viral-punchface-photo-kelvin-gastelum-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman discusses viral punchface photo from Kelvin Gastelum fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, in the main event of the UFC&#8217;s debut in Long Island, New York, New York&#8217;s own Chris Weidman picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-on-fox-25\/ufc-fox-25-results-chris-weidman-submits-kelvin-gastelum-highlights\/\">an impressive submission win over surging middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum<\/a>. While Weidman managed to secure the win, however, he did not escape the fight unscathed. In the first round, the former champ was blasted by <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kelvin-gastelum\/kelvin-gastelum-details-close-finishing-chris-weidman\/\">a crushing Gastelum punch<\/a> \u2013 the impact of which happened to be brilliantly captured on camera by veteran combat sports photographer Esther Lin.<\/p>\n<p>Ever the good sport, Weidman shared this image of himself getting punched in the face on Twitter after the fight. And though he didn&#8217;t expect such a reaction, the image became something of a viral sensation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This fight game ain&#8217;t for everybody. But I love it! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9PZf4po6lX\">pic.twitter.com\/9PZf4po6lX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Weidman (@ChrisWeidmanUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisWeidmanUFC\/status\/889202098113572868\">July 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of The MMA Hour, Weidman discussed this now well-known photo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI saw that picture, I was like, \u2018wow.\u2019 My face got put into like seven different directions at one time,\u201d Weidman said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/8\/6\/16021640\/chris-weidman-responds-to-viral-punchface-photo-from-kelvin-gastelum-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cSo it was like a rippling effect going on, and I\u2019m the ugliest human being ever in that picture, so I was like, \u2018this is an interesting thing, I\u2019ve got to put this up.\u2019 I\u2019ve got no shame. It\u2019s part of the game, you\u2019ve got to get punched sometimes.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weidman then explained that, while this punch was clearly a hard one, he was well prepared for Gastelum&#8217;s proven power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"grM7rJ\"><em>\u201cLook at his career, look at what he\u2019s done to some really good fighters,\u201d Weidman said of Gastelum. \u201cTim Kennedy\u00a0is freaking really good,\u00a0Vitor Belfort\u00a0is really good. He stood up there and he KO\u2019d these guys and knocked these guys out from his feet. He covers distance really well, he\u2019s quick, he\u2019s confident, he\u2019s not afraid to get hit, he stays in the pocket, so no, I was prepared. I was prepared for all of that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of this photo of Chris Weidman getting punched?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/7\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, in the main event of the UFC&#8217;s debut in Long Island, New York, New York&#8217;s own Chris Weidman picked up an impressive submission win over surging middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum. While Weidman managed to secure the win, however, he did not escape the fight unscathed. 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