UFC Middleweight Joe Pyfer doubled on his wild anger at Mexico after his withdrawal from UFC Mexico City.
Joe Pyfer is not a fan of Mexico and is not going to ever fight there.
Pyfer and former UFC-Interim-title finer Kelvin Gastelum would be tailored to the Co-Main event of UFC Mexico City earlier this year, before Pyfer went to the hours of cancellation due to illness. Months later, Pyfer returns to the Octagon against Gastelum at the UFC 316 card next weekend in Newark.
Pyfer went at a wild post-event Rant after his withdrawal from UFC Mexico City, with a horrible experience of Vechtweek and promised never to fight in the country again. The comments received a lot of recoil from Mexican fans.
Pyfer, one of the best knockout artists in the middleweight division of the UFC, disturbed many feathers with his earlier comments. But after he had received the play of the fan for UFC 316 for months, Pyfer defended his comments and confirmed his position about the experience of competing in Mexico.
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Joe Pyfer focuses the criticism of Wild Rant against Mexico
In a recent appearance at the Ariel Helwani show, Pyfer was asked about his controversial post event Rant on Mexico after his withdrawal of the short entertaining.
“Look at it this way, I don't have to go into details, but if the country was so great, it wouldn't have so many problems,” Pyfer said. “What I said was misinterpreted, I said:” If that's what fighting in that country, then that place is, it is like – -, “and so on. I don't know why we are in the risk of fighting there. The risk is so great, I got sick twice and I never said anything about it …
'[Daniel Cormier] Continued and said, “Man, my stomach was confused, I hate that place,” and nobody gave him s – for it. I am a bit more unapologetic, it's nothing towards the people, the people were fine and I had nothing to say bad about the people. It is as far as it fights and fights there at that height and height, why should I risk that? “
Pyfer would not withdraw his comments and double his attitude that he is not going to never fight in Mexico again.
After clarifying his recent controversial comments outside the cage, Pyfer wants to make a statement in the Octagon. A victory over Gastelum could possibly move Pyfer to the top 15 of the middleweight and continue his winning ways since he ran his first UFC loss to Jack Hermansson.
Kelvin Gastelum criticized Joe Pyfer Prior to UFC 316, again planned fight
The tensions between Pyfer and Gastelum are up before UFC 316. After the news about the Hereslagen battle broke, Gastelum took a chance of Pyfer's recent comments about Mexico, as a result of which the fuel was added to the fire of their upcoming middleweight collision.
Pyfer returns to the cage for the first time since he eliminated Marc-Andre Barriault on UFC 303 last year. He bounced back in a large way after a unanimous loss of decision for Hermansson in February 2024.
Gastelum is located in a 'must-win' situation that UFC 316 enters, after three of his last five fights. After a short return to Welterweight, Gastelum returns to the middleweight for a chance of a different potential title run.