{"id":310384,"date":"2019-04-20T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=310384"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T21:02:39","slug":"kevin-lee-wants-adesanya-vs-gastelum-type-war-on-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-wants-adesanya-vs-gastelum-type-war-on-may-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lee Wants Adesanya vs. Gastelum Type War on May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kevin Lee wants his next fight to be legendary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to avoid back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, Lee moves up to the welterweight division against former lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC on ESPN+ 10 on May 18. The 26-year-old plans to be a lot more focused in this fight, as opposed to his last outing against Al Iaquinta, a unanimous decision loss at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/pros-react-to-alistair-overeem-stopping-aleksei-oleinik\/\">UFC<\/a> on FOX 31, where he felt distracted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;\u201cI think I lost some of the focus in there. I didn\u2019t see Al as big of a threat.\u201d <\/em>Lee told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/kevin-lee-adesanya-gastelum-war-rda\/\">MMANews<\/a>.<em> \u201cThat\u2019s something I know I have to address anyways. I think you learn a lot from losses. Even though that was a really close fight, I think they could have squeezed it my way. I learned more from that fight than any other. It\u2019s just about keeping the same pace, the fifth round has to look like the first. For this one I\u2019m going to make sure the judges are out of this, because sometimes they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee (17-4) doesn\u2019t think we\u2019ve\nseen the best of him in the octagon. Alternating between wins and losses in his\nlast three fights, the \u201cMotown Phenom\u201d believes this will be the matchup that\nwill put his inconsistencies to rest. Having sat cageside for UFC 236 last\nweekend for Israel Adesanya\u2019s fight of the year candidate victory over Kelvin\nGastelum, Lee wants that type of performance on May 18. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a hell of a fight, that\u2019s\nall I ask for. When they approached with dos Anjos I jumped on it because I\nknow he\u2019s going to show up to fight. I think I\u2019m going to go out, put my chin\ndown and throw some punches. We\u2019ll see who takes that first step back but if he\ndoesn\u2019t it\u2019s going to be a hell of a fight, I\u2019m preparing for war. I\u2019m\npreparing to get bloody, have some fun. The causal fans know me, but I haven\u2019t\nthat Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum type fight yet in the UFC. I know it\u2019s\nin there, I want it. I think dos Anjos is going to give it to me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\">UFC<\/a> on ESPN+ 10 takes place May 18 at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Lee wants his next fight to be legendary! Looking to avoid back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, Lee moves up to the welterweight division against former lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC on ESPN+ 10 on May 18. 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