Gustafsson will get trustworthy
“I see myself as an elite athlete, however I really feel it’s the time for the brand new technology,” Gustafsson stated. “I really feel like I’m not in my prime recreation anymore. It was some time in the past. In my view, the fighters who combat for the UFC should be on their prime stage. It’s the finest stage of preventing within the UFC. I’m not there anymore.
“I’m nonetheless coaching. I’m nonetheless doing my finest 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 now have been discussing this for a very long time. I don’t have the actual fireplace anymore or the starvation.
“It was a choice to make, and I imagine we made the precise resolution. And I be ok with it, too. I might have carried out one other UFC combat, after all, however I really feel a bit of little bit of the strain since you’re preventing for the very best group on this planet.
“It is advisable ship. I’m not competing to just accept a loss. I really feel I’m not in a position to ship like I did a few years earlier than. It is advisable 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 not likely frightened concerning the injury you are taking within the combat. It’s extra the coaching camps you may have. I’ve carried out many coaching camps in my profession, and the coaching camp main as much as the combat, you might want to ship on the very best stage.
“It’s a bit of little bit of strain as a result of you might want to get well between classes. There are numerous components 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 very best of it, and squeeze it out as a lot as attainable. Then I’m carried out.”
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