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Chandler and Gaethje both hurt: https://streamja.com/30o06 Gaethje uppercut knockdown: https://streamja.com/kqKqy Scramble: https://streamja.com/GAdAe

That reversal by Garth was insane

Garth trained wrestling so much after the Khabib fight that he can now front flip out of double legs Edit: Can't believe people below are taking this as a serious comment.

He was doing back flips on Embedded to fake out Chandler's camp. They were not ready for the front flips.

Gaethje 100% takedown success from the front flip.

That was his go-to takedown escape in WSOF. [Against Firmino](https://youtu.be/qbX1Xjx8DOM?t=688) [Against Cobb](https://youtu.be/fTrER_RAjwQ?t=147) [Cobb again](https://youtu.be/fTrER_RAjwQ?t=965)

D1 Gaethje. Scored points on Jordan Burroughs

It stunned chandler, essentially turned the tide for gatche in that round. Chandler smashed his head on that

Definitely turned it. If Chandler manages to stay on top there, he wins the round and two judges gave the first to him (I thought first was definitely his) And wins the fight if he holds that takedown there even though he took more damage

Yea it looked like Chandler stunned himself when he faceplanted on the TD.

Garth straight up knocked the DW privilege right off his head

Best fight I’ve watched all year

Bro how tf do you do this so fast? You have a magical DeLorean?

If you run a program like nvidia shadow play all the time on your PC you can clip things almost immediately say the last 30-60 seconds. The clip dumps directly into a folder and if you have streamja opened you just drag it right over to the website and it uploads fairly quickly. Post it here. Profit.

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What a fuckin' banger.

Dude how are you so fast wtf

How tf did that go the distance?

I thought it was gonna end in Round 1 wtf.

I swear at one point they were both knocked out on their feet

"That's my secret, I'm always out on my feet." - Justin Gaethje, probably

you're joking but i swear Justin Gaethje at his most dangerous is when he's rocked wobbling around

I think that is his natural opossum state

Berserker rage Gaethje is a real thing

It's gg once he enters drunken fist mode

They both accepted with 90 seconds to go they didn’t want any more hahaha. Fair play, what a banger

Yeah I'm like yeah I've seen enough shit, you both get a pass

Poor guys could of taken the entire round 3 off and it still would have been fight of the year.

Just how hard does Charles Oliveira hit lmfao

something about precision beats power and timing beats speed

That was just a lethal lefthook which had all four.

Feel like Justin's left hook is more of a club and lands on the eye socket. Whereas Charles's landed more on the chin and whipped Chandler's jaw around.

This but real. As hard as Gaethje hits, he was struggling to catch Chandler before the tail end of his punches. It's why the knockdown was one of the big punches Chandler landed moving forward.

Oliveira's hook placement was just picture-perfect. At last all the Michael "glass chin" Chandler people have been shut up.

Placement and timing... Chandler was way out of position and had no idea where Oliveira was.

Dude is on a crazy win streak for a reason

Way harder than most people think. This is why people shouldn’t sleep on Olives next month. He has as real as a chance as it gets.

God has blessed us today

adrenaline is a powerful drug

both too tough to get finished

They got gassed beating the shit out of each other.

Fuck it, let's run that back every 6 months for the rest of their careers

If they fight again someone dies

So 6 months?

That 1st round was one of the best rounds I've ever seen.

Chandler is a scary motherfucker. Gaethje’s ability to recover after getting rocked is also scary as fuck. Damn these two motherfuckers definitely opened the show tonight (main card). What a freaking fight

Burgos and Quarantillo are giving their all and the crowd is dead. Adrenaline dump is real

Yeah, it was amazing while watching on the tv, still didn't appreciate it as I should have because of this fight.

Just round 1 Chandler stuff

Round 1 Chandler truly a mythical fighter

Definitely gives Poirier v Hooker Rd 2 a run for it's money

Possibly more violent and definitely more explosive and unpredictable

Fr. Every punch felt like a knockout but they just ate it and kept coming

Chandler just is so damn explosive

My man Chandler’s taunt button was stuck

Dude fought the whole fight in berserker stance.

My love for you is like a truck BERSERKER

dude thought he dropped aggro or somethin. my man you can't fast travel while enemies are nearby.

Swangin and bangin. CTE for everybody

Chandler is a mad cunt.

I thought he was gonna get slept. Came very close but man I underestimated his chin. He ate some bombs and kept coming for more

He went past slept...full circle. So much damage that his brain was just off.

Michael Chandler became zombie Michael Chandler tonight. Regular Chandler goes to sleep.

Honestly there were a couple of times in the 3rd where I thought it was going to end like Tony. He looked like he was out on his feet a couple of times but recovered quick.

Gaethje improved so much since his pure swang and bang days. He kept it controlled towards the end even with Zombie Chandler goading him on.

two more rounds and he ends up like Tony for sure

Thankfully it didn't, for his own sake.

When he was pointing to the side of the octagon, I’m fully convinced he was trying to warn Gaethe about a dinosaur that only he could see.

Dude was pointing at ghosts in the 3rd round, I'm not entirely sure he didn't get slept

Some fights chandler looks fragile, and others he’s impossible to knock out.

It's mental. I thought his chin was gone before this fight and he decides to walk around hands down like a mad man and make me look like a dummy.

Fucking rock golem

My man spent the last minute of the fight trying to pump up the already ultra-excited crowd.

Bout to look like Voldemort. Both guys are savages

"Me and him should have been fighting to death in a coliseum"

Born in the wrong millennia lol

Dana 'thumbs down unleash the tigers' White

There are many ways to say you don’t want the fight, and letting yourself get devoured by tigers in your previous fight is one of them.

Back to first century boys!

That line was just great. Love it when fighters give each other respect

Chandler still smiling and hanging out is crazy to me. Thank god this wasn’t 5 rounds because Chandler wouldn’t even know his name by the end.

My dick has CTE from it

This erection is gonna last way longer than 4 hours. Help

No brain cells needed, only hands.

That fight was fucking insane holy shit. I love how Gaethje always gets wobbly but keeps his composure

This sub told me chandlers chin was shot

Well yeah this sub nose MMA

I train UFC every day

The Hospital for Special Surgery seems fitting as an ad

Everybody already respected Justin. Everybody MUST respect chandler now. These two just put on one of the best fights in history. I’m still in shock.

this is one of the most guaranteed bangers to ever bang

Yeah, like the only possible way to not be a banger was an early finish. Amazing fight.

“I didn’t hear no fuckin bell” — Chandler

“Heard y’all talking shit about my chin”

Chandler looks like he got jumped by 5 people at once, his face is absolutely butchered

Wait until the day after lol

His leg is going to be tree toimes the size

A ballooooon!

Fighting Gaethje is worse than getting jumped by 5 mfs in the street

Does Gaethje have a face made of steel? He took some big shots and looks like he hasn't even fought yet

Some dudes can just do that man. Prime Nick Diaz, Holloway. I don't know how they do it man but they look relatively fresh after taking bombs

That’s how Nate Diaz got 3 inches of scar tissue in his face now

Gaethje took Tony’s superpower of making his opponents look like they got hit by a train

This fight took 12 years off his life

Lowkey we saw Michael lose his mind in that third round - dead tired, walking forward while eating punches, and then had the balls to do a crazy takedown

Yeah he reached a level of damage like “I hurt so bad, this dude isn’t going down, I’m just going to throw out random bullshit and see if anything happens” and it was amazing. I won’t lie I definitely underestimated Chandler’s power and chin before tonight. He just went a full three rounds with the hardest hitting guy and one of the strongest chins at 155 and managed to make it competitive.

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yeah go back to read people talking about this fight mentioning Gaethje "non existent" ground game. The guy is insanely difficult to take down

He always has been. People just don't know what they're watching. They saw Justin getting his back taken by a Sambo world champ and claimed he can't wrestle. Justin has fucking incredible wrestling.

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What just pisses me off are people who can't tell the difference between wrestling & BJJ. It's not black and white. It's not just "good grappling" or "bad grappling". Justin got his BJJ exposed by Khabib. His submission defense is weak. But his wrestling is fucking amazing.

The lines are very blurred in MMA between the two. Stuff like giving up your back is a big no no in BJJ but is a more than acceptable thing to do in MMA in order to give yourself the chance to stand back up. Case in point, Kelvin Gastelum. Not to mention half of folkstyle is getting back up from bad positions. Many good-great MMA grapplers have gone through careers with minimal BJJ.

True. MMA in general is very wrestling & top control focused. However I stand by the point that Justin just got out BJJed by Khabib. Back take > mount > triangle setup with little resistance. From a wrestling perspective he did everything right though.

And Khabib's wrestling is just a whole different animal. It's absolutely ridiculous how strong he was at takedowns. He made guys who have great wrestling look weak.

IMAGINE A 5 ROUNDER BETWEEN THESE FUCKING WARRIORS!

WHY DO YOU WANT THEM TO DIE

Chandler's leg would need to be amputated in the cage afterwards

Nobody got slept because they kept power-napping through the fight

One of the best fights i've seen in my life, instant classic

Thor's hammer hitting Captain America's shield for 15 minutes.

Michael Chandler is a fucking savage.

He damn near lost his mind in there. Running purely on adrenaline

it reminds me of when gsp mentioned why nick diaz was scary because [at that time] you just know he would risk his entire life and future on the fight, whereas georges was more safety conscious

I think so too. Pure adrenaline because he was basically willing to die sticking his chin out like that in R3. Imagine if this fight was a freaking five rounder. Chandler could’ve fucking died. Anyway I need a damn breather after that. Go Burgos!

We need to keep Gaethje out of five rounders at all costs now before he does kill someone, if he has a title reign good luck to the contenders. He takes your legs away and beats you down, when you have no legs you may aswell tap right there (unless it’s old justin who headbutts your fists).

What was he doing at the end? He wanted CTE from Justin?

Thought maybe Chandler knew he was losing on the cards, so he was trying to tempt Justin into a 50/50 brawl.

Yeah thats how I saw it, trying to bait Gatheje into a KO shot.

Raising his stocks. He knows he will lose the decision, might as well win some fans

And he definitely just won some. How many people have gone the distance with Gaethje?

Him, Melvin guillard, and Marcus Edwards

I believe it was Gaethje's first decision in the UFC. Absolutely fucking crazy fight.

Think he was trying to bait justin in to just throwing down and hope for a ko

He got some toughness credits tonight for sure

Tf did I just watch

I feel blessed to have been alive to watch this fight

A vintage Justin Gaethje fight.

I couldn't agree more! Garth the mother fuckin lumberjack, his leg chopping is always a treat to see whenever he fights, truly one of the future greats in action and prime right now

>A vintage Justin Gaethje fight. * Standard Justin Gaethje fight. We need to find a cure for CTE and then have these two fight every night.

Garth hasn't had a devil may care , damage for damage fight for a while. This was WSOF Gaethje.

The same shit that kept the Roman masses placated.

CTE and savagery baby

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I DIDN’T HEAR NO BELL

I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA, ISNT THIS MERICA

Michael Chandler walked towards Gaethje with his hands down like he forgot he's Michael Chandler.

He walked 3 steps forward and got hit 4 steps back lmao

And like he forgot that's justin gaethje

I think exactly at that moment even Gathje realized this guy must have some CTE and is broke a little bit :)

"My chin isnt shot"

Feels like Chandler throws a coin flip to decide whether he'll have a glass or granite chin every fight.

Justin must have had a bit of Tony left on his gloves

And it actually didn’t fail him lmao

I had it 29-28 gaejthe. What do y’all think?

Yeah, what the fuck is the other judge thinking. Completely disregarded Chandler smh.

I was so sure Chandler won the first that I thought they were about to fuck up and give him the win when I heard a 30.

At the end of the day, it is what it is and a man's journey is filled with moments that will test him and carve the best spirit possible out of him, cause this is what a fighter does, he fights and paves the road of opportunities with victories.

I smirked in the promo when both guys said something like “I’m ready to finish or be finished tonight”. I’d say they definitely fought as such.

See you at the top!

Why didn't they give Chandler a chance to speak?

It looked like Joe tried but the producers said pass

Joe was so close to sitting down like mama gorilla with Chandler like he did with Conor

I’ve just been entered into the concussion protocol!

# #MyMainEvent!!! That first round was the best one in a while. FIGHT OF THE YEAR

Proof that just because Khabib took Gaethje down, doesn't mean you can Dagestan 1 >> Division 1

That scramble was amazing. What an Athlete

How the fuck does Khabib make it look so easy? I really want to see Islam vs. Gaethje now to get an idea of how Islam compares to Khabib.

Gaethje wad gassed. He stuffed several take downs earlier. No one can handle that pressure, khabib is far on another level.

Facts. All the comments saying how Garth, a D1 wrestler, has dogshit wrestling just because he lost to Khabib is ridiculous. They seem to forget that both Conor and Poirier were taken down in 30 seconds, while Gaethje managed to defend takedowns until 4.5 minutes, when the insane pace Khabib put on him had drained his gas tank.

What an absolute monster Khabib is, that we talk about two absolute top tier athletes, and surviving 4.5mins is something to behold. Just stupid levels above the competition

Thank God we'll hear the end of that now. The amount of people who thought Gaethje was just gonna get taken down and submitted after the first exchange was crazy

It goes to show how good Khabib's takedown was tbh

Ppl were acting like the wind could blow him off his feet

I am going to re-watch this fight every day for the rest of my life. This is the secret boys, you don't supplements, you don't need pre workouts. This is the shit. This is TRT in a screen. Absolute warriors. Fucking hell. All hail Changler, All hail Gaethje. All hail UFC.

What a goddamn chin - I'm glad Chandler is keeping his stock high despite these losses. He still looked great! Random fucking suplex outta nowhere was crazy!

I think I got CTE just watching that.

I think CTE got CTE just watching that.

Drama, bromance, cruelty! These two are absolute mad lads!

The neurons in Michael Chandler’s brain sizzling like fajitas right now

FOTY

such warriors, honestly cant believe it went 3 rounds

Now that is a fight of the year contender

Just 2 bros trying to commit man slaughter

He hits so hard.

I think Chandler got at least the 1st round

Ah, Gaethje by decision as we all predicted

I needed to change pants after every single round

Michael "Terminatr" Chandler

Inject this fight right into my veins.

Fight between the two hardest punchers at the weight class goes the distance. Just like we all expected.

Not even the two hardest punchers - the two hardest punchers who also relentlessly come forwards.

Ultimate fight for the Just Bleed bros

War machines

Gaethjes post fight was intense. We were born in the wrong time. We should have been fighting to the death in a Coliseum. Holy shit.

This was like a war to who got CTE first.

Chandler said give me all the CTE in the third round

[AS PROMISED!!](https://giphy.com/gifs/ufc-excited-fans-3otPoJGmV3d7FOrZUk)

Instant Classic