{"id":283407,"date":"2018-08-22T07:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283407"},"modified":"2018-08-22T07:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:32:54","slug":"justin-gaethje-explains-what-it-will-take-for-him-to-retire-from-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/justin-gaethje\/justin-gaethje-explains-what-it-will-take-for-him-to-retire-from-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Gaethje explains what it will take for him to retire from MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of his UFC Lincoln main event clash with James Vick, former World Series of Fighting champion Justin Gaethje has joked that, if <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-james-vick-expects-to-completely-dominate-justin-gaethje-in-lincoln\/\">he&#8217;s outclassed<\/a> by Vick, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/justin-gaethje\/justin-gaethje-says-hell-have-to-hang-up-the-gloves-if-he-gets-outclassed-by-james-vick\/\">he&#8217;ll retire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These comments from Gaethje, of course, were not serious. He&#8217;s not retiring yet.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/exclusive\/justin-gaethje-still-chasing-ufc-gold-when-thats-not-my-goal-i-will-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMANytt<\/a> ahead of his fight with Vick, Gaethje explained what it will take to actually convince him to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, once his goal of being a world champion dissipates, that&#8217;s when he&#8217;ll hang up the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When that\u2019s not my goal, I will retire,\u201d Gaethje said. \u201cI want to be the best. I want to be the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justin Gaethje will enter his UFC Lincoln scrap with James Vick having lost his last two fights \u2014 knockouts at the hands of Eddie Alvarez and Dustin Poirier.\u00a0That said, he now feels like he&#8217;s well adjusted to the bright lights of the Octagon, and is ready to perform to his potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UFC, they are the hype machine. Fighting on a UFC card, there is nothing like it,\u201d Gaethje said. \u201cExperience is a hell of a trait to have and now, with some experience under my belt, it will do a lot of things for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be more comfortable in a sense and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/justin-gaethje\/justin-gaethje-shares-lesson-he-learned-from-alvarez-poirier-losses\/\">I\u2019m going to be more vigilant in not getting comfortable in the fight<\/a>. That comes with experience so yeah, I\u2019m excited to out there and do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Justin Gaethje also addressed James Vick&#8217;s recent claims about him \u2014 that he&#8217;s not actually worth of the main event spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you watch the fights, you have to understand how close either one of us were to getting the \u2018W\u2019 and finishing that fight,\u201d Gaethje said of his losses to Alvarez and Poirier. \u201cFor James Vick to sit here and say I\u2019m a \u2018B\u2019 league fighter and I don\u2019t deserve the accolades that I\u2019m getting \u2014 the bonuses, the main events \u2014 they guy just doesn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m painting a pretty clear picture of what pure effort can achieve in this sport and if you don\u2019t want to pay attention, that\u2019s not my problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Justin Gaethje will come out on top in the UFC Lincoln main event?<\/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\/22\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of his UFC Lincoln main event clash with James Vick, former World Series of Fighting champion Justin Gaethje has joked that, if he&#8217;s outclassed by Vick, he&#8217;ll retire. 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Speaking with MMANytt ahead of his fight with Vick, Gaethje explained what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":282835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[25154],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Justin Gaethje explains what it will take for him to retire from MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justin Gaethje, who battles James Vick in the UFC Lincoln headliner, explains what it will take for him to retire from mixed martial arts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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