Kelvin Gastelum: It was 'devastating' to not fight Robert Whittaker | Ariel Helwani's MMA Show

Kelvin Gastelum: It was ‘devastating’ to not fight Robert Whittaker


UFC middleweight Kelvin Gastelum joins Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show to describe the empty feeling of not getting to fight Robert Whittaker in the main event of UFC 234. He says he started crying when he got the news the morning of the fight after Whittaker pulled out due to a collapsed bowel and hernia. Gastelum says Israel Adesanya’s win over Anderson Silva was a bunch of “theatrics” and he wasn’t impressed.


Gastelum also says there was no fight was offered to him last second as a replacement and does not believe he will be paid in full. He expresses his desire to fight Adesanya for the interim middleweight title at some point in the near future.

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  1. Rob doesn't want to fight gastelum! 2 nd times he pulls out of this fight!! Rob gets kod ! Early !!

  2. Another entitled idiot pretending to be something he's not, a champ. In any sense of the word. Only way KG ever touches a belt is when another cringe lord let's him borrow one.

  3. only a bitch calls himself a champ like this. earn that shit no real champ would consider that a win

  4. So does jacare win over weidman just not count now, that should have been the number one contender fight winner to fight the winner of this fight. So why is no one talking about jacare? He deserves a title shot!

  5. So funny of kelvin to say he won the belt and the last thing he says to Ariel is “the fight with rob can’t happen then me and Israel should fight for the interm title” basically telling the opposite of what he had been just saying at the beginning of the interview 😂

  6. They coulda had someone fill in for Robert & have that person fight Kelvin for an Interim title. But Im asuming nobody wanted to get staff. I kno Tony Ferguson dont give a fuck lol

  7. He says he has the belt and is the champ but then says make an interim title. 🤔

    He is sending a mixed message. I think he should seize this opp and spin this thing.

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