Gable Steveson won\u2019t be thrown into the deep end until Dana White knows he can swim.<\/p>\n
\u201cCM Punk fought here, we\u2019ll find somebody,\u201d White said at the UFC Winnipeg press conference<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we go after a Top 15 guy. The UFC jitters are real. I don\u2019t care how you\u2019ve competed or where or what you\u2019ve done. When you come here, it\u2019s a different level. Our matchmakers are the best in the business. We\u2019ll figure him out and get him the right fight. When I say that, I mean at what we think his level is, and what we think he\u2019s capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n The last thing UFC wants to do is risk the long-term potential of Steveson with hotshot matchmaking against devastating heavyweights like No. 13-ranked<\/a> Tallison Teixeira or No. 15-ranked<\/a> Shamil Gaziev. Yes, I\u2019m being sarcastic. The UFC heavyweight division is so thin<\/a> you could floss with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson won\u2019t be thrown into the deep end until Dana White knows he can swim. \u201cCM Punk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-617012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}