{"id":271514,"date":"2018-03-01T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=271514"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:45:01","slug":"alexander-gustafsson-considering-moving-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alexander-gustafsson\/alexander-gustafsson-considering-moving-heavyweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Gustafsson is Considering Moving to Heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Daniel Cormier heads up to heavyweight in one of the blast few big fights before he walks away from the sport, he’s not the only one changing weight classes. His teammate Luke Rockhold has announced his move to light heavyweight is ‘imminent’<\/a> and Alexander Gustafsson has offered to welcome him to the new division<\/a>. Although, with a logjam of top Swedish talent at the top, it may be Gustafsson who leaves his division soon as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a tricky situation. [Illir Latifi and Jimi Manuwa] are teammates, we are friends \u2014 close friends \u2014 first and foremost and we won\u2019t fight each other. I want to start our discussion by making it clear that we will not fight each other, so now you all know.\u00a0It\u2019s a tricky situation, for sure. But I mean, we\u2019ll see what happens. [Daniel Cormier] is now going up to face Stipe [Miocic], Ilir Latifi has heavyweight as a possibility. We\u2019ll sort it out somehow. Of course we both should be able to dream of the belt and we both should get our chances to fight for the title, but we\u2019ll see how it all turns out when we get there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ilir Latifi 🏆🏆🏆<\/p>\n

\u2014 Alexander Gustafsson (@AlexTheMauler) September 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n