“I was talking about it basically in a private forum” – Michael Chandler responds to Justin Gaethje calling him an attention seeker for his ‘anti-vaxxer’ comments


“I was talking about it basically in a private forum” – Michael Chandler responds to Justin Gaethje calling him an attention seeker for his ‘anti-vaxxer’ comments

Michael Chandler and Justin Gaethje

Michael Chandler has responded to Justin Gaethje after the latter claimed that he was seeking attention through his ‘anti-vaxxer’ comments. It is a well-known fact that ‘Iron’ Mike Chandler will not be getting the Coronavirus vaccine unless he feels so. Different strokes for different folks.

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However, little did Chandler know that him just announcing the same on his Instagram live will be caught by a ton of MMA outlets. Ever since then it has been blown up to gargantuan proportions. Chandler has been deemed an ‘anti-vaxxer’ by many. His upcoming opponent Justin Gaethje had something very similar to say, calling him an attention-seeker for his latest comments.

In the latest episode of MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Michael Chandler stated that he never knew a casual private Instagram Live Session reveal would do the rounds on social media. He then responded to Gaethje’s ‘anti-vaxx attention seeker’ comments by claiming that he would have publicly revealed the same if he had wanted attention.

“I got labeled an anti-vaxxer” – Michael Chandler

Chandler was quoted as saying, “The funny thing about the vaccination thing was, I didn’t come out, I didn’t do one story to tell people about it, about the vaccine. I didn’t get on your show and start talking about the vaccine. I was in a private Instagram Live session with a couple thousand people or whatever it was. Five minutes after I hit ‘End Live,’ one of the MMA media outlets come out and said Chandler isn’t getting vaxxed, and then I got labeled an anti-vaxxer. [via MMA Fighting]

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He then said, “So if I had done that, yes, I would be 100 percent OK with Justin Gaethje saying I was seeking attention. But the fact that it was on an Instagram Live and a media outlet picked up my words and put them out there, that shows you right there that it was a private [discussion], no different than me and you having a private conversation at a restaurant and someone overhearing it and then acting like, hey, since I have this huge platform I shouldn’t be talking about it. Well, wait a second, I was talking about it basically in a private forum.” [via MMA Fighting]

Chandler and Gaethje are set to face off at UFC 268 in November this year. Chandler is coming off a title-match loss against Charles Oliveira at UFC 262, while Gaethje is also coming off a title-match loss – against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 254. By the time Gaethje steps inside the Octagon it would have been more than a year since his last fight.

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