{"id":264015,"date":"2017-11-18T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264015"},"modified":"2017-11-18T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:13:58","slug":"kelvin-gastelum-wants-title-shot-beats-michael-bisping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kelvin-gastelum\/kelvin-gastelum-wants-title-shot-beats-michael-bisping\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Gastelum Wants a Title Shot if He Beats Michael Bisping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Gastelum was originally supposed to fight the legend Anderson Silva in the main even of UFC Shanghai, but Silva&#8217;s flagging by USADA took away that opportunity. Luckily, perhaps an even more high profile match-up landed in Gastelum&#8217;s lap. Michael Bisping wanted to bounce right back from his loss to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 217, so he offered to step up short notice against the middleweight contender. Gastelum feels like a possible win over Bisping could finally get him close to the gold belt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yes. If I win this fight [with Michael Bisping], it will put me up high in the rankings and hopefully in the conversations to fight for the title. That\u2019s ultimately my goal.\u00a0I feel like if I win this fight then I might have tarnished those plans and I might\u2019ve just permanently put myself in the position where I\u2019ll be fighting for the middleweight title. If I get to fight for the middleweight title, then that\u2019s ideal but I also feel like if I do the right things and I\u2019m able to make the 170 safely and healthy, then I can do it and I want to fight for that title too.\u201d\u00a0<span>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/2017\/11\/18\/kelvin-gastelum-aims-title-contention-win-michael-bisping\/\">Kelvin Gastelum speaking on the UFC Shanghai conference call.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Fighting another legend! 14 Days ,3hours and 14 minuets!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/onamission4gold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#onamission4gold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/allglorytogod?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#allglorytogod<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yaPGWmbbHN\">pic.twitter.com\/yaPGWmbbHN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #OnAmission4Gold (@KelvinGastelum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KelvinGastelum\/status\/929541329201147904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With wins over Johny Hendricks, Tim Kennedy and Vitor Belfort\u00a0<span>\u2014 even though his TKO victory was overturned due to testing over the threshold for marijuana metabolites\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Gastelum has had a pretty good run lately. Certainly, a victory against former UFC middleweight champ Bisping skyrockets Gastelum. However, with well-deserving monsters Yoel Romero and Luke Rockhold pacing around while Robert Whittaker clutches his interim title, it&#8217;s going to be hard to position into a title shot even with such a giant win over Michael Bisping.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t see how I could\u2019ve turned this down. I honestly think this is a win-win situation for me. I get to go out there, get back in the win column hopefully, put on a great fight, show what I\u2019m capable of, and I get paid again. It\u2019s all positive from my perspective. Obviously [UFC 217] didn\u2019t go my way. The best way to rectify that is to get straight back on the horse, so to speak, try to get back in the win column. Physically I\u2019m totally fine, 100 percent fine. Mentally, of course, I\u2019m a little pissed off.\u00a0I want to rectify that and exorcise my demons. Best way to do that: I\u2019m a professional fighter. Get back in the cage and fight again.&#8221;\u00a0<span>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/11\/bisping-sees-win-win-in-ufc-shanghai-meeting-with-gastelum-who-isnt-mad-either\">Michael Bisping speaking on the UFC Shanghai conference call.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><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 11\/18\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Gastelum was originally supposed to fight the legend Anderson Silva in the main even of UFC Shanghai, but Silva&#8217;s flagging by USADA took away that opportunity. Luckily, perhaps an even more high profile match-up landed in Gastelum&#8217;s lap. 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