{"id":249089,"date":"2017-09-12T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=249089"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:26:51","slug":"justin-gaethje-fight-wrestling-may-mac-mayweather-tuf-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/justin-gaethje-fight-wrestling-may-mac-mayweather-tuf-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Gaethje Thinks Conor McGregor Gasses Because a Lack of Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new force in the UFC&#8217;s lightweight division. As stacked as that weight class is, that&#8217;s like adding a piranha into a pool of sharks. Justin Gaethje left his World Series of Fighting lightweight title behind and crashed into the UFC with a huge victory over Michael Johnson, pushing him into the top five in the rankings. He&#8217;s excited to get <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/justin-gaethje\/justin-gaethje-fight-mcgregor-coach-tuf-26\/\">punched in the face by Eddie Alvarez<\/a>, hoping to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/justin-gaethje-awesome-plan-lure-conor-mcgregor-fight\/\">lure Conor McGregor<\/a> into a title shot. Getting past Alvarez is a tall task, but Gaethje will look to exploit what he thinks is McGregor&#8217;s weakest point at some point in the future: His cardio.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe reason [Conor McGregor] can\u2019t fight through when he gets super tired is he\u2019s never grappled. You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it\u2019s really hard. You have to be in that position over and over and over, to be able to perform in that mindset. The fact that he\u2019s never wrestled or grappled, it doesn\u2019t help when he gets super tired and starts questioning himself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretMovesMMA\/status\/902993363057696768<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He wasn\u2019t a regular guy coming in off the street, even though he had an 0-0 record. He wasn\u2019t just somebody coming off the street to fight Floyd Mayweather. He was a world-class athlete coming in and that\u2019s what he proved. He wasn\u2019t gonna go in there and get embarrassed. I didn\u2019t think so. He\u2019s a competitor. I figured he would stay in good position, try to land hard punches, but probably overextend himself. Fourth, fifth round, it was gonna get bad. Just tired, you can\u2019t perform like that.\u201d \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/9\/10\/16244264\/justin-gaethje-more-grappling-wrestling-might-have-helped-conor-mcgregor-against-floyd-mayweather\">Justin Gaethje to MMA Fighting<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately for Justin Gaethje, McGregor has no shortage of opponents. Between potentially boxing Paul Malignaggi, fighting Nate Diaz, Khabib Nurmagomedov, or the winner of Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee&#8217;s UFC 216 fight, Gaethje will have to expose of Alvarez in devastating fashion to be in the conversation. He&#8217;ll fight the former UFC lightweight champion on December 1st at The Ultimate Fighter 26 finale.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a>\u00a0on 9\/12\/2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new force in the UFC&#8217;s lightweight division. 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