Justin Gaethje is known for his 'fan-friendly' style of fighting.
A style that emphasizes taking a shot to give one and, lately, has resulted in the 'Highlight'
taking too many to give any.
Win or lose, the damage has been adding up, and that could be a real problem.
Gaethje is only three fights into his UFC career but the shots he has taken even in
that short time could have major repercussions.
He's a great athlete with an incredible wrestling base and the ability to create moments
of dynamic offense.
Yet Gaethje largely refuses to rely on any of these tools.
James Vick, his next opponent, has made it abundantly clear he plans to take advantage
of the Coloradan's flawed style of fighting.
So, how much damage has Justin Gaethje taken in his short career compared to some of his
fellow top UFC lightweights?
In his last three fights the Genesis Training Center talent has taken 492 total significant
strikes.
That is a lot.
To compare, Eddie Alvarez, in his last 3 fights (including Dustin Poirier twice and a war
with Gaethje) has taken 249 significant strikes.
That's almost exactly half as many.
Taking a look at Poirier over a similar stretch (including Eddie Alvarez, Gaethje, and Anthony
Pettis) he has taken 175 significant strikes - or just over a third, at 35.5% of Gaethje's
total.
Considering that, for both Alvarez and Poirier, most of the damage they took was in their
fights with Gaethje, in both bouts he still got hit more.
Additionally, in that time, Gaethje has taken 302 significant strikes just to his head alone.
That's more strikes than the other two men took across their head, body, and legs all
together.
Poirier took 95 head strikes total, which is less than a third, and Alvarez took 174
to the head.
Still only just over half.
But, two isn't a very large sample size, so let's add another fighter into the mix:
Edson Barboza.
The Brazilian has been in two absolute wars, both of which saw him totally dominated for
3 plus rounds - against Kevin Lee and Khabib Nurmagomdov.
Add in a third fight, a win over Beneil Dariush, and altogether Barboza has been hit with 282
total significant strikes.
Even still, Gaethje has been hit 43.7 percent more than Barboza, over fewer rounds.
Admittedly, the 'Highlight' has fought more rounds than Poirier or Alvarez in that
same stretch, but that doesn't account for his absolutely massive increase in damage
taken.
The Coloradan's 39 minutes and 20 seconds of cage time is only about 3 more minutes
than Poirier or Alvarez.
Barboza, who fought over 5 minutes longer than Gaethje (at 45 minutes and 53 seconds
over 3 fights) still ate fewer shots.
Right now, Gaethje is eating nearly 8 significant strikes to his head per minute and just short
of 13 total significant strikes per minute.
Barboza, who has been absolutely blasted as of late, is taking 6.1 significant strikes
a minute in comparison and 5.4 significant strikes per minute to the head.
These numbers are astounding.
The Genesis fighter is taking three times as much damage as some of his fellow athletes.
And while Gaethje has a style fans tend to love, it all has a price.
If history has taught us anything, that price will be the health of his brain.
It may be something he's already taking into account, as back in April, he had this
to say on what's left for his fighting career.
Gaethje has been using his action-oriented style for years and, on the regional level,
he blasted a lot of guys out of the water.
But, even in the World Series of fighting his style resulted in back and forth brawls
that meant he took a lot of shots.
His first fight with Luis Palomino looked quite comparable to his UFC run.
As a viewer, these have all been "fight-of-the-year" type performances.
But at some point, he will have to adjust, use some wrestling, and fight a little smarter
if he wants to keep his career going, or stay healthy into his old age.
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