Junior Tafa is carrying on in the UFC in the absence of brother Justin Tafa, who actually arrived in the promotion first.<\/p>\n
Tafa (6-5) returns at UFC Perth this Saturday, where he\u2019ll face Kevin Christian while looking to snap a two-fight skid.<\/p>\n
Junior is now fighting at 205lbs, after moving down from heavyweight. Justin \u201cThe Bad Man\u201d Tafa also stalked the heavyweight division, but after a couple of fight cancellations last year, he parted ways with the promotion.<\/p>\n
Junior touched on his brother\u2019s situation during the UFC Perth media day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah it sucks. But I watched that movie Iron Claw with Zac Efron, and it kinda explained to me why it sucks,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
While there\u2019s no tragedy in this case, certainly not the kind endured by the pro wrestling\u2019s ill-fated Von Erich family, who are featured in the film, it still hasn\u2019t been easy for Junior. Tafa explained that \u201cI mean like, every day, going to training with your brothers, car rides, all these little things, just being with your brothers all the time. Now it\u2019s just like me by myself. They\u2019re still around, but it just sucks not having my brother with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, he clarified that Justin may not be done with fighting. \u201cHe\u2019s just having a little breath at the moment. But he\u2019s just been riddled with injuries, and it\u2019s just, he definitely misses fighting and misses the UFC and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it might be harder for him to come out here and watch me fight. I know how much he misses it and wants to get back in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch the full UFC Perth media day appearance with Junior Tafa above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Tafa is carrying on in the UFC in the absence of brother Justin Tafa, who actually arrived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3398,3409,3406,3412,3399,3410,3402,3401,2132,3210,3408,3407,335,3405,3400,3411,3403,1412,3404],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-bellator","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-gsp","tag-invicta","tag-jon-jones","tag-lfa","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fc","tag-perth","tag-pfl","tag-rizin","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-titan-fc","tag-ufc","tag-wsof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}