Joe Pyfer reveals he may need surgery, still hopeful to rematch Dustin Stoltzfus next: “It’s personal for me”

Joe Pyfer isn’t obvious when he will have the choice to fight over again.

Pyfer is determined to grapple Gerald Meerschaert – who he knocked out at UFC 287 – this Saturday night. Nonetheless, he says he is the utilization of that grappling match as a gamble to behold if he desires surgical procedure on his damage or if he can fight through it.

“No belief. I fabricate occupy a few injuries I’m nursing so I’m going to fabricate this grappling match and glimpse how my body feels. I’m practising very fastidiously proper now, confidently, to steer clear of surgical procedure,” Pyfer acknowledged to BJPENN.com. “I’m proper seeing how my body is responding and it will likely be dependent on this grappling match and seeing how I truly feel. If I truly occupy to earn surgical procedure that’s what I truly occupy to fabricate, but we’re going to glimpse. These subsequent few weeks will yell loads as if I want surgical procedure likely no longer till the autumn. If I truly feel upright and my body just isn’t any longer hurting, we’re going to glimpse perchance slow summer season.”

Regardless if Pyfer desires surgical procedure or no longer, he makes it determined he desires Dustin Stoltzfus subsequent.

The 2 fought on the Contender Sequence in 2020 and within the critical round, Pyfer broke his arm. Ever since that fight, Joe Pyfer has made it determined he desires that fight support as he says it’s personal for him as he desires to earn revenge.

“Hear, I’ll continuously desire that fight as lengthy as he is within the UFC. He is 1-4 within the UFC, I’m 2-0 we’re no longer that far aside, he has five fights within the UFC, I truly occupy two,” Pyfer acknowledged. “So, for the of us that snort I’m to this level sooner than him, proper because some particular person put aside me sooner than him of their rankings doesn’t possess me that far sooner than him.

“At the raze of the day, we are some of the keen within the sphere so why can’t I fight that man? I truly occupy one extra salvage than he does, so, entirely I would esteem that fight,” Pyfer persevered. “I truly occupy called him out a tall selection of conditions, I’ve been disrespectful in calling him out, no longer looking out to be, but fully dismissing his talents, dismissing his salvage. It looks to be chasing a rabbit within the darkish, I’m no longer going to earn it. They don’t snort it is miles perfect but it’s personal for me, it’s revenge, it’s redemption. I’ll continuously desire that fight.”

If Joe Pyfer doesn’t earn the rematch in opposition to Stoltzfus, he isn’t obvious what would be subsequent. Nonetheless, he says he won’t be fighting someone within the tip-15 as the pay doesn’t match the fighter. He is aware of he has to take his profession tidy which is why he is asking out Stoltzfus.

“It’s got to possess sense. Why would I atomize into the tip-15 yet, I’m easy on a spoiled contract. It doesn’t possess sense to me. I’m no longer tiresome, I’m no longer wearisome, I’m no longer going to fight any individual who is a high-15 contender that might perchance perhaps be an advanced fight and I might perchance occupy a war with and god forbid I lost, it’s treasure I’m no longer guaranteed grand,” Pyfer concluded.

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