{"id":387796,"date":"2022-05-07T03:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T03:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=387796"},"modified":"2022-05-07T03:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T03:59:49","slug":"its-ridiculous-but-here-i-am-justin-gaethje-wont-let-charles-oliveiras-ufc-274-weight-miss-derail-his-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/its-ridiculous-but-here-i-am-justin-gaethje-wont-let-charles-oliveiras-ufc-274-weight-miss-derail-his-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It\u2019s Ridiculous But Here I Am&#8217;- Justin Gaethje Won&#8217;t Let Charles Oliveira&#8217;s UFC 274 Weight Miss Derail His Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 274 has suffered a major setback now that the title fight that headlines the card has been compromised to a certain degree. Charles Oliveira has been stripped of his lightweight belt after coming in over the weight limit at 155.5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite making a second attempt to come in at championship weight, \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 still weighed in over the limit and will leave Arizona without the belt, even if he manages to defeat Justin Gaethje. However, if \u2018The Highlight\u2019 secures the win, he will be eligible to become the champion, as the belt has been officially vacated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Charles Oliveira missed the 155-pound limit for his lightweight title fight after receiving an additional hour to lose .5 pounds and has been stripped of his title.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC274?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC274<\/a> main event will commence, but only Justin Gaethje has the opportunity to win the UFC title. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W7tc8ZCeZk\">pic.twitter.com\/W7tc8ZCeZk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1522653444649201668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Justin Gaethje spoke out after his opponent missed weighed and he wasn\u2019t too pleased with Oliveira\u2019s professionalism for their title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/i-was-out-of-my-comfort-zone-justin-gaethje-talks-about-facing-khabib-nurmagomedov-as-the-hardest-test-of-his-career\/\">\u201cI Was Out of My Comfort Zone\u201d- Justin Gaethje Talks About Facing Khabib Nurmagomedov as the Hardest Test of His Career<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Justin Gaethje won&#8217;t lose focus due to Charles Oliveira&#8217;s weight miss<\/h2>\n<p>While Gaethje thought it to be \u2018ridiculous\u2019 that Oliveira missed weight for their title fight, he reaffirmed the fact that he was still as focused as ever. Considering the fact that he is still eligible to win the championship, there\u2019s no reason for Gaethje\u2019s motivation to take a nosedive.<\/p>\n<p>He also doubled down on how he was looking to score the knockout regardless of whether \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 stepped in on the scale heavy or not.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XYCndaCQ3dg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSame mission. That s*** doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s not going to affect one thing tomorrow night. I\u2019m here to knock him out. I was here to knock him out before he didn\u2019t make weight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI f****** think it\u2019s ridiculous, but here I am. I\u2019m going to knock his ass out. I promise you.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/5\/6\/23060815\/justin-gaethje-blasts-charles-oliveira-ridiculous-weight-miss-promises-im-going-to-knock-his-ass-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gURRscJOchs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Charles Oliveira has had an unfortunate history of missing weight and this has certainly been a hindrance to his overall legacy. His run at featherweight had several weight misses sprinkled in and that trend has seemingly continued at lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>This weight miss is sure to give Oliveira\u2019s future opponent a chance to continue calling him a \u2018quitter\u2019, a reputation that has fallen on his name. It remains to be seen if his motivation for the match-up is derailed now that he no longer has a chance to win the belt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 274 has suffered a major setback now that the title fight that headlines the card has been compromised to a certain degree. Charles Oliveira has been stripped of his lightweight belt after coming in over the weight limit at 155.5 pounds. Despite making a second attempt to come in at championship weight, \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":387797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}