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Monday, Oct 06, 2014

Report: Alexander Gustafsson Responds to Critics After Losing Night for Sweden at UFC FN 53

Alexander Gustafsson (photo via Alex The Mauler / Instagram)

By FCF Staff

UFC Fight Night 53 this past Saturday featured several of Sweden’s top fighters, but after the Stockholm event concluded, the nation’s record stood at 2-4.

Apparently more than a few fans have been critical of how the Swedish fighters performed on October 4th, so much so, the country’s light-heavyweight star Alexander Gustafsson has issued a response.

According to a post from MMA Junkie.com, here is some of what “The Mauler” had to say via the social media app “Mikz”:

Thank you UFC for visiting Sweden yesterday and giving us a great event.

I am reading the news and the comments from our fans with mixed feelings today. If you are a fan of this sport you should know what kind of preparations we go through in the camps…

You have to be a fighter or a top athlete to be able to understand all we go through and sometimes we win and sometimes we lose, but we ALWAYS do our best.

And then having your own fans criticizing you after a loss with stupid comments and saying that you suck about your performance when 99% of them have no experience of the sport in real life, that’s not the way to support your fighters.

No misunderstanding, we love the support we get from all of you, but we cannot become the worst fighters in the world after a loss when we the fight before were the best fighters in the world.

We had a bad night last evening, but my team mates are still the worlds best mma fighters. I train with Ilir Latifi, I know he is a beast, I know how hard he prepared himself for this fight, but last night was not his night and he will come out of this much stronger. Niklas Backstrom, all of you fans have said he is the next star of Swedish MMA, I agree, he is a supertalent. Now I read everywhere that he is weak, he has no jaw and other stupid things. He got hit by a overhand and got knocked out, could happen to anyone. Tor Troeng is an experienced and a smart fighter, he fought well and sometimes it is just not your night, someone just for that night is better than you. Magnus Cedenblad, what a great fight, he really showed his heart last night and came back from the 2nd round in a really impressive win. Well done my friend…

To sum up this message, you can have good nights like we have had for the past years, and then you can have a bad night like we had last night. The good nights don’t make us world champions and the bad nights don’t make us completely useless and all of us overrated. I would like you all instead, if you are a fan of the sport to support us in the good times and in the bad times and if you want to criticize us, give us constructive critics.

We will come back stronger than ever after this, that is what I can guarantee you all.

Gustafsson is currently not booked for a bout after he was forced to drop out of a title fight with Jon Jones in September due to a knee injury.

posted by FCF Staff @ 10:25 am
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