Kelvin Gastelum met the media Saturday after his win over Dustin Stoltzfus at UFC Fight Night 259.
Gastelum (20-10 MMA, 14-10 UFC) took a unanimous decision from Stoltzfus (16-8 MMA, 3-7 UFC) on the main card at Frost bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Gastelum (20-10 MMA, 14-10 UFC) missed the middleweight mark by five pounds, one of many weight misses and cancellations because of weight issues in his UFC career. He gave up 35 percent of his purse to Stoltzfus.
Afterward, he didn’t have much to say, but put the blame on his latest weight miss on a four-week training camp.
“It’s a little bittersweet. I really didn’t get a chance to get my weight down the way I wanted to,” Gastelum told UFC.com. “I didn’t make the weight, and it just kind of spoils the whole thing. It’s bittersweet, but at the end of the day, we got the ‘W.’ I guess, ultimately, that’s what matters.”
Gastelum recently said he wanted to try to go back to welterweight, but his issues making middleweight even had the broadcast team on ESPN briefly making light of that idea. At his media day appearance for Noche UFC, he appeared to put to rest the idea that he would make a move back to 170 pounds.
The UFC recently released Season 29 “Ultimate Fighter” winner Bryan Battle after his third weight issue in nine UFC fights. Gastelum won Season 17 of the show. Starting with a middleweight title loss to Israel Adesanya more than six years ago, Gastelum was on a 3-7 skid before the win over Stoltzfus.
Check out Gastelum’s post-fight interview in the video below.
