Justin Gaethje is either attempting to play mind games with UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira or fool himself — and his supporters — into believing Oliveira is a quitter.
Gaethje has been beating this drum for a while. It wasn’t true when he landed his first downstroke, and it’s even farther from the truth today. But Gaethje is stubbornly holding onto that frayed and trashed drumstick as his matchup against Oliveira approaches on Saturday in the main event of UFC 274.
Ahead of Oliveira’s UFC 269 title defense against Dustin Poirier, Gaethje said of the champ, “He’s a quitter.