Gustafsson will get trustworthy
“I see myself as an elite athlete, however I really feel it’s the time for the brand new era,” Gustafsson stated. “I really feel like I’m not in my prime recreation anymore. It was some time in the past. For my part, the fighters who battle for the UFC should be on their prime stage. It’s the greatest stage of combating within the UFC. I’m not there anymore.
“I’m nonetheless coaching. I’m nonetheless doing my greatest in coaching, and I’ve a few fights left in me, however I’m not on the UFC stage anymore.
“That’s how I really feel. I’m actual to myself. My teammates, my group is actual to me. We’ve got been discussing this for a very long time. I don’t have the actual hearth anymore or the starvation.
“It was a call to make, and I imagine we made the appropriate determination. And I be ok with it, too. I may have executed one other UFC battle, in fact, however I really feel a bit of little bit of the stress since you’re combating for the most effective group on the planet.
“That you must ship. I’m not competing to just accept a loss. I really feel I’m not capable of ship like I did a few years earlier than. That you must take into consideration your self, and in addition I’m not 25-28 anymore. I’m 38 years previous.
“I’ve a life. I’ve a household. I’m probably not anxious concerning the injury you’re taking within the battle. It’s extra the coaching camps you’ve got. I’ve executed many coaching camps in my profession, and the coaching camp main as much as the battle, it is advisable ship on the best stage.
“It’s a bit of little bit of stress as a result of it is advisable get better between classes. There are lots of elements concerned in the entire thing. That’s why we made the choice. We even have the GFL contract on the desk, too. I’ve another provides, too. I really feel like I’m not going to do that for a really very long time, so let’s make the most effective of it, and squeeze it out as a lot as attainable. Then I’m executed.”
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