{"id":264339,"date":"2017-11-25T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264339"},"modified":"2017-11-25T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:20:23","slug":"video-kelvin-gastelum-wants-fight-robert-whittaker-ufc-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kelvin-gastelum\/video-kelvin-gastelum-wants-fight-robert-whittaker-ufc-221\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Kelvin Gastelum Wants to Fight Robert Whittaker at UFC 221"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zGREaLkfBj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>While most of us slept off our second helping of Thanksgiving, Kelvin Gastelum was in Shanghai, China earning the biggest win of his entire career. It only took him a single round to take out Michael Bisping, who was coming off a super quick turnaround from UFC 217&#8217;s loss to Georges St-Pierre. Gastelum wasted no time at all declaring exactly what he wanted this win to propel him towards: The UFC middleweight title. With St-Pierre&#8217;s next fight up in the air, Gastelum set his sights on a fight with Robert Whittaker in Perth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flush.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCShanghai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCShanghai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/10gMesZuwB\">pic.twitter.com\/10gMesZuwB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/934415777133760512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"aX0yB7\"><span>&#8220;I trained for this, and I expected it coming into the fight that I would knock [Michael Bisping] out. I am confident in my abilities.\u00a0<\/span><span>I\u2019m here to focus on my career and get where I need to be, which is the middleweight title.\u00a0<\/span>I heard Robert Whittaker needs a main event over in Australia for February and I\u2019m up the challenge. You guys say I beat up all the elderly, and Robert Whittaker is definitely not an elderly, he\u2019s probably my age, so I\u2019m up for the challenge.\u00a0 [Georges St-Pierre] said it himself: Anything can happen in the sport of MMA, you know. I feel like Robert Whittaker and I should be next. We\u2019re two young guys who haven\u2019t even hit our prime yet, and I just beat the guy who was the guy so I think I should be next. I don&#8217;t know what you guys are talking about, [Bisping] was the middleweight champion three weeks ago.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/11\/25\/16698786\/following-ko-win-over-bisping-kelvin-gastelum-eyes-title-bout-with-interim-champ-robert-whittaker\">Kelvin Gastelum at the UFC Shanghai post-fight press conference.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelvin Gastelum already had to be on the defensive, receiving criticisms about the age of his recent opponents. Old or not, Gastelum is right: Michael Bisping held the belt just three weeks ago, not to mention the 38-year old former champ took out Luke Rockhold last year. Either way, Kelvin Gastelum declared he&#8217;d pick on someone more his age and wants to bring the fight to Whittaker. It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess how things will play out, but it&#8217;s gurranteed that all the top middleweights will not by pushing for a fight with Gastelum in order to steal his fire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eat4i8OyVsE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\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\/25\/2017<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of us slept off our second helping of Thanksgiving, Kelvin Gastelum was in Shanghai, China earning the biggest win of his entire career. It only took him a single round to take out Michael Bisping, who was coming off a super quick turnaround from UFC 217&#8217;s loss to Georges St-Pierre. 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