BROOKLYN – Gregor Gillespie swore he would never compete again after years of suffering on a mat. Gillespie (12-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC), who at UFC on ESPN+ 1 faces Yancy Medeiros (15-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC), liked to say he’d served his time in the prison that was the wrestling room. So when a friend declared over beers that he’d be good at fighting, his response was, “Shut the (expletive) up.” They were watching Frankie Edgar , a local guy of sorts and ex-UFC lightweight champion, and Gillespie said he would never fight. Two and a half years later, he was sober and back on the mats. Jordan Burroughs was the catalyst for Gillespie’s retirement from wrestling.
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