Kelvin Gastelum didn’t like Joe Pyfer’s detrimental feedback about Mexico.
Gastelum and Pyfer have been scheduled to scrap in earlier this 12 months in Mexico Metropolis earlier than the latter got here down with a last-minute sickness that pressured him to bow out of the bout. Pissed off by the state of affairs, Pyfer positioned the blame on Mexico, calling it a “shit gap” nation and vowing by no means to return.
Evidently, Gastelum, a Mexican-American, didn’t take kindly to the comment.
“Clearly, it did depart a little bit little bit of a bitter style in my mouth,” Gastelum mentioned in the course of the UFC 316 media day. “I simply suppose the best way he went about it was a little bit impolite. He shouldn’t say these issues about different individuals’s international locations, and I simply suppose he ought to have been higher about the best way he went about it. I don’t suppose these feedback have been proper.”
Kelvin Gastelum was cautious about when to rebook his bout with ‘Bodybagz’
Initially, the UFC wished to rebook Gastelum and Pyfer’s battle for the next weekend, however the one-time interim middleweight title challenger felt that will solely give his opponent a bonus.
“Yeah, , they wished me to battle Joe Pyfer. I didn’t need it to be the subsequent weekend. I simply suppose that will give him a bonus—, increased weight class, not in elevation. It could simply give him the benefit. So, we settled on June seventh right here in New Jersey, and , I’m an organization man. I type of do what I’m instructed. They wished Joe Pyfer, and we rebooked him.”
As an alternative, they’ll sq. off contained in the Prudential Middle this Saturday evening. Gastelum enters the bout having gained two of his final three, together with determination wins over Chris Curtis and Daniel Rodriguez.
As for Pyfer, ‘Bodybagz’ is 4-1 contained in the Octagon, his lone loss coming towards Jack Hermansson in 2024. He’s since bounced again with a brutal 85-second knockout of Marc-André Barriault round this identical time final 12 months.
