Justin Gaethje Pat McAfee Show interview
by Hars: Justin Gaethje
Justin Gaethje appeared on The Pat McAfee Show to break down his TKO win over Ilia Topuria at UFC Freedom 250.
Transcript (en)
You pound, yeah, Gaethje, you pound people's faces. I mean, you absolutely dismantle people's faces. Yeah, one word describes it all, and it's timing. And the more you watch the sport, the more you can maybe grasp the concept of that. But creating angles, but sending direct lines of energy in straight lines through their body and through their face. When you see my face and it's not messed up, you're like, oh, something's wrong with the skin. It's really not that. If you watch frame by frame, I am constantly dissipating the energy that he's trying to send in straight lines. And they're all coming off and glancing off of my body. And that is the timing that I have. I've said it, if you go back to my early interviews, my A to B is unmatched. And when I can lock in and be cerebral and I'm in danger, then my body does crazy things. and I'm able to be so technical and intuitive and cerebral with my actions and my emotions. It's happening so fast. We're like computers processing codes. And if you're constantly making adjustments and what really happened, I was able to reset his feet every one to two seconds. I was very diligent about it and I fought a perfect fight. He was completely caught off guard. He was not expecting it. That obviously is another part of this whole game is the expectations. I've said it many times. I don't go in with expectations. So that way I can never, you know, be surprised. And that's just the way I compete. And, you know, he took the opposite approach. And I said it before on your show, when we go to two, when we go to three, you're going to be in hell. And that's where he was.
