{"id":298193,"date":"2019-01-15T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=298193"},"modified":"2019-01-15T05:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:57:52","slug":"al-iaquinta-explains-why-justin-gaethje-fight-doest-interest-him-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/al-iaquinta-explains-why-justin-gaethje-fight-doest-interest-him-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Iaquinta explains why Justin Gaethje fight does&#8217;t interest him right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Iaquinta was recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/justin-gaethje-is-fing-pissed-targets-edson-barboza-al-iaquinta\/\">called out by former World Series of Fighting champion Justin Gaethje<\/a>, who he was briefly scheduled to fight this summer. For the moment, however, this is not a fight that Iaquinta is especially interested in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m looking up in the rankings,\u201d Iaquinta told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/01\/ufc-al-iaquinta-not-interested-in-justin-gaethje-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a> Radio. \u201cI think Gaethje, he\u2019s kind of had his opportunity, and he chose to fight Vick. He wanted to do what was best for him, so now I\u2019m going to do what\u2019s best for me. Fighting below me in the rankings is definitely not (it). It\u2019s a good fight, but I think there\u2019s guys that\u2019ll put me right up there. Those are the guys I\u2019m gunning for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that the fans want that, and the UFC wants that, so I think everyone is on the same page, except for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Al Iaquinta isn&#8217;t thrilled about the notion of a fight with Justin Gaethje, he says he&#8217;d leap at the chance to fight Dustin Poirier, Tony Ferguson or Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see it being any one of those top three guys, really\u00a0\u2013 Ferguson, Conor or Dustin,\u201d Iaquinta said. \u201cI think it\u2019ll be one of those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all three of those guys \u2026 a good win over any one of them puts me right up there to get that title shot again,\u201d he added. \u201cI put on a better fight than Conor did against Khabib, so I think he should have to fight somebody (before an immediate rematch). \u2026 And I beat Kevin Lee, who I think is another guy that would give Conor tons and tons of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Iaquinta last fought in December, when he catapulted into title contention with an upset defeat of Kevin Lee.\u00a0Who do you want to see him fight next?<\/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 1\/14\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Iaquinta was recently\u00a0called out by former World Series of Fighting champion Justin Gaethje, who he was briefly scheduled to fight this summer. For the moment, however, this is not a fight that Iaquinta is especially interested in. &#8220;I\u2019m looking up in the rankings,\u201d Iaquinta told MMAjunkie Radio. \u201cI think Gaethje, he\u2019s kind of had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":295182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10523,25154,39610],"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>Al Iaquinta explains why Justin Gaethje fight does&#039;t interest him right now | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/al-iaquinta-explains-why-justin-gaethje-fight-doest-interest-him-right-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Al Iaquinta explains why Justin Gaethje fight does&#039;t interest him right now | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Al Iaquinta was recently\u00a0called out by former World Series of Fighting champion Justin Gaethje, who he was briefly scheduled to fight this summer. 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