{"id":959269,"date":"2026-11-05T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959269\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:44:09","slug":"golf-or-ufc-justin-gaethje-must-decide-what-hes-gonna-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959269\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf or UFC? Justin Gaethje must \u2018decide what he\u2019s gonna do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a whole lot of UFC fighters with better things to do<\/a> than fight in the UFC, and you can add Justin Gaethje to that list.<\/p>\n

According to UFC CEO Dana White, after five months of waiting, it\u2019s time for Gaethje to decide if he\u2019ll retire. White discussed Alexander Volkanovski as a potential opponent<\/a> on the Jim Rome Show but suggested Gaethje was the one in the driver\u2019s seat when it came to what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would pretty much do anything for Alexander Volkanovski at this point in his career,\u201d White said. \u201cGreat guy, great champion, great athlete. The big question is, what does Justin Gaethje wanna do? Justin\u2019s coming off this unbelievable win at the White House, and he\u2019s an incredible athlete too. What does he wanna do next?\u201d<\/p>\n

White revealed that Gaethje has been out enjoying life after his win, and has a lot of positive things going on that don\u2019t involve getting punched and grappled all day in the gym.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do that Fanatics Fest in New York, and they have this athletic competition that you have to go through to win. One year it was a Ferrari, and then I don\u2019t remember what it was last year. But yeah, guys like Brady and all these NFL guys [enter], Justin Gaethje won that thing. And then this new golf league that [Barstool Sports owner] Dave Portnoy\u2019s got. I heard that Gaethje\u2019s doing well on that too.\u201d<\/p>\n

White admitted he wasn\u2019t sure what would happen with Gaethje but committed to figuring it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know yet,\u201d he said on Justin\u2019s fighting future. \u201cHe\u2019s in the middle of this golf thing that Portnoy is doing. We\u2019re talking to him, but we\u2019ll figure it out. He\u2019s gonna have to pull the trigger one way or the other, see if he wants to retire or continue to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaethje\u2019s got three options: an Ilia Topuria rematch, an Arman Tsarukyan fight, or the Alexander Volkanovski champion vs. champion bout. All good options, but we\u2019d love to see a few more actual No. 1 contenders<\/a> getting their shot, y\u2019know?<\/p>\n

Actually, Gaethje\u2019s got four options, the fourth being delay his return so he can spend more time holding onto the belt he just won. Pull an Islam Makhachev<\/a> and say Ilia Topuria and Arman Tsarukyan have to fight to determine the true No. 1 contender.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s pray that\u2019s not the route he goes, but it seems like a more common route these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a whole lot of UFC fighters with better things to do than fight in the UFC, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-959269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959269","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=959269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}