{"id":30594,"date":"2026-09-30T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=30594"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:24:38","slug":"michael-bisping-predicts-whats-next-for-justin-gaethje-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=30594","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping predicts what&#8217;s next for Justin Gaethje in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>Darren Till gets honest about his performance in win over Yoel Romero<span class=\"photo-credit\">Zuffa LLC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MMA analyst Michael Bisping has predicted what fight should be next for UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje.<\/p>\n<p>As we know, Justin Gaethje is the UFC lightweight champion courtesy of his epic win over Ilia Topuria at UFC Freedom 250. In terms of what the future holds, though, there are a few different ideas floating around, including a rematch against Topuria, a rematch against Paddy Pimblett, or a showdown with rising star Arman Tsarukyan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: Justin Gaethje unfazed by Ilia Topuria\u2019s loaded gloves claim: \u201cI think the internet\u2019s crazy, man\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justin Gaethje has been taking the time to enjoy his championship reign, and there\u2019s been no official announcement regarding whether and when he will defend the belt, and who that may be against.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video, Michael Bisping laid out what he thinks is going to happen both for Justin Gaethje and others at the top of the lightweight division.<\/p>\n<h3>Michael Bisping on Justin Gaethje\u2019s next move<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBut back to the original question, when is he [Gaethje] going to fight? Is he going to fight?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd is it going to be Ilia or is it going to be Arman Tsarukyan? I talked about it all this week and last week on the TV, on the podcast, on YouTube, right? Arman Tsarukyan is now undeniable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Paddy fights Ilia and I think Justin Gaethje will fight again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill it be one more [for Gaethje]? I don\u2019t know,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might be two or three more. We just don\u2019t know. And I\u2019m saying that because I want Justin to come back and you want Justin to come back and everybody wants him to come back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd who knows, maybe playing it like this might get him a few more bucks. But regardless, I\u2019ve got a pretty good feeling that within the next couple of months or certainly by the end of the year, we will get an announcement that Justin Gaethje will be fighting Arman Tsarukyan for the undisputed lightweight championship of the world. That\u2019s just my thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via Bloody Elbow<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Bisping? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-predicts-whats-next-for-justin-gaethje-in-the-ufc\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=michael-bisping-predicts-whats-next-for-justin-gaethje-in-the-ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Darren Till gets honest about his performance in win over Yoel RomeroZuffa LLC MMA analyst Michael Bisping has predicted what fight should be next for UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje. As we know, Justin Gaethje is the UFC lightweight champion courtesy of his epic win over Ilia Topuria at UFC Freedom 250. In terms of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[782,495,494,513,493,42,51],"class_list":["post-30594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-bisping","tag-gaethje","tag-justin","tag-michael","tag-predicts","tag-ufc","tag-whats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}