Al Iaquinta is expecting a ‘tough’ fight against former WSOF lightweight champion Justin Gaethje, but ‘Raging Al’ believes the matchup plays in his favor.
Gaethje, 29, will return to action against Iaquinta at UFC Fight Night 135, after suffering two back-to-back knockout losses to lightweight standouts Eddie Alvarez and Dustin Poirier.
But Iaquinta, who dropped a unanimous decision to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223, believes ‘The Highlight’ should have taken some more time off to ‘relax’ his chin.
“We got a tough task ahead of us,” Iaquinta said on a recent edition of The MMA Hour, per MMA Fighting’s Shaun Al-Shatti.