{"id":284007,"date":"2018-08-30T06:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=284007"},"modified":"2018-08-30T06:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:49:52","slug":"kevin-lee-targeting-fight-fing-madman-justin-gaethje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-targeting-fight-fing-madman-justin-gaethje\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lee targeting fight with &#8220;f***ing madman&#8221; Justin Gaethje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Justin Gaethje knocked out James Vick in the main event of last Saturday&#8217;s UFC Lincoln card, he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/justin-gaethje\/kevin-lee-had-an-interesting-reaction-to-justin-gaethjes-big-ufc-lincoln-win\/\">got the attention<\/a> of a fellow lightweight contender in Kevin Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Submission Radio this week, Kevin Lee discussed Justin Gaethje&#8217;s big win, and said he&#8217;d love to fight him next.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin Lee Believes Conor McGregor &quot;Sleeps&quot; Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229, Eyes Justin Gaethje Next\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00_l6sk3v10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved that fight,\u201d Lee said of the UFC Lincoln main event (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-targeting-showdown-with-justin-gaethje-hes-a-fing-mad-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMANytt<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s way more appealing to me now too. Justin is a mark and I\u2019m like a lion. Every day I wake up, I just try and look for my next target, I look for my next meal. And right there Justin showed me himself, so I like that. I like a fight, especially like that, because Justin\u2019s a fucking mad man. So he\u2019s gonna bring out the best in me and he\u2019s really gonna let me show off for the rest of these guys that already know the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in a situation right now where I\u2019m having a hard time getting fights because guys know when you sign up to fight me you\u2019re signing up for a hard fight, you ain\u2019t gonna win that fight. So not a lot of people are signing that line. Justin just might be crazy enough to do it. So, I was all smiles. I was like, alright, I got me a dance partner if anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lee has also recently been linked to a potential fight with former title challenger Al Iaquinta. Apparently, however, this fight has been a tricky one to nail down. As a result, Lee seems to have mostly lost interest in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl knows the business, Al knows the real deal and he knows he\u2019s talking that, but he really gonna be playing games at the end of the day. When I approached him (about) fighting me in October on this card, that\u2019s when he really got\u2026 you could see he pulled back a lot. He talking about, \u2018oh, you wanna fight in China,\u2019 and all this instead. And I\u2019m like, come one, you either wanna fight or you don\u2019t. And when he took the fight with Gaethje in his last one, you know, he signed the contract and didn\u2019t bother showing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna waste my time with somebody like that. If he got better things to do then I got better things to do, and that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna get done. If he\u2019s serious about the fight, then he knows the right mediums to approach. You gotta go through a couple of people to get to me. I ain\u2019t one of these dudes that\u2019s gonna sit here and go back and forth with y\u2019all on Twitter. I\u2019m working, I got better things to do. I got world championships to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does a fight between Justin Gaethje and Kevin Lee interest you? Who do you think wins?<\/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\/30\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Justin Gaethje knocked out James Vick in the main event of last Saturday&#8217;s UFC Lincoln card, he got the attention of a fellow lightweight contender in Kevin Lee. 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