Preview: UFC287 Prelims —by omgitsfeely
Still somehow just 31 years old, it will be interesting to see if Gastelum can turn things around after a lost 2022. Gastelum came out of nowhere to win his season of “The Ultimate Fighter” in 2013, upsetting the much more hypedand quickly becoming a promotional favorite. With the UFC looking to make inroads into Mexico, pushing a young Mexican-American talent like Gastelum that dropped into its proverbial lap seemed like a natural move.
Gastelum kept his end of the bargain by impressing in his fights, to the point that he was on the fringes of contender status by the time he reached his January 2015 fight against. That was where the weight issues that would come to define much of Gastelum’s career first came home to roost. Gastelum missed weight by nine pounds and was hospitalized, yet was also somehow cleared to fight and lose in an understandably flat performance.
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