MEXICO CITY – Kelvin Gastelum is “100 percent sure” that middleweight will be the only division he competes in for the remainder of his UFC career.
After winning Season 17 of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series at 185 pounds, Gastelum (18-9 MMA, 13-9 UFC) went down to welterweight. Issues around his weight cut ultimately forced him back up a weight class and led to a window of his most success.
The results started to turn in a negative way, though, prompted Gastelum to again try 170 pounds. It didn’t prove much more beneficial, and the familiar weight-cutting problems arose again. Now Gastelum is back at middleweight against for Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 64 matchup with Joe Pyfer (13-3 MMA, 4-1 UFC) at Arena CDMX in Mexico City (ESPN2, ESPN+), and for him, this is it.