Remembering the days when Justin 'The Highlight' Gaethje made every Friday Night Fights electric!
i still remember walking into the room that friday night, the one where gaethje just demolished someone before alvarez even stepped up—felt like we’d already won before the main card even started. now these kids stream fights on their phones and call it a night by 10:30, ah well, we'll see
Been here longer than some have followed.
madness friday yeah—been sat in the snug at The Laceys Arms since like 2015 specifically for gaethje nights, tanked a pint by half-time then that walkout music hit and my mate spilled his whole shandy down my front oh dear 😂 still didn’t wipe the grin off though, twelve stitches later
ever been so far back you had to crane your neck just to see the telly? reckon that’s how most of us were in some shitty boozer back in gladstone road, pints gone flat cos we wouldn’t bloody move for anyone—then that guitar starts blaring and suddenly every head turns at once like we’re all magnets. then he just… flies out of the tunnel like a man possessed, you could feel the whole pub vibrate. i lost count how many empty glasses ended up underfoot after that night—some lad somehow managed to smash three in celebration and still finish his pint somehow. still tells the tale too, swears the beer tasted different cos of the adrenaline
Seen it all, lads.
yeah i was in some blokes back garden in dore that night—mobbed round a cracked telly with about 15 of us, half drunk on warm cans of snakebite, the other half already seeing double cos they’d done the preload with me. gaethje walks out and suddenly every man and his dog is doing that wobbly slapping motion to the guitar like we’re all trying to swat a wasp with a fiver. next thing i know my mate derek’s taken a header into the flower bed cos he tripped over his own wellies mid-celebration, crown still intact but his pride hit the floor harder than gaethje’s leg kick. somehow still finished the night sober though—mostly cos we ran out of crisps before the main event and had to trek back to the garage at 2am for a top-up. classic days… proper madness 🤣