After competing in an excellent bout this past weekend, Justin Gaethje has a message for the fans: Better come see me while you can.
The former World Series of Fighting lightweight champion knows that his style of fighting is not the type that makes for long careers.
“I’ve got about five fights in me,” Gaethje told reporters following the bout. “Before this I said I’ve got six. ... I want the biggest fights possible. Coming off two losses, that’s hard to say, but you want to see me fight. But, if you don’t see me fight live, you will regret it when I’m done. It’s not going to be very long. I’ve got five left.”
Gaethje indicated that he wants to take some time off after a whirlwind year which included a win over Michael Johnson last July and a loss to Eddie Alvarez in November, and says he’ll make adjustments from here.
“I’m not an idiot,” he said. “I’m not going to go home and say forget that and do it again. I’m going to go home, and we’re going to study what I did right and what I did wrong and we’ll make adjustments.”
But Gaethje also admitted that at this stage of the game, you probably shouldn’t expect him to reinvent himself.
“I don’t fight to win or lose, as stupid and crazy as that sounds,” Geathje said. “I go in there to entertain people. This is the entertainment business. I go in there and I fight for money. That’s what I do, and it helps me to get paid.”