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I'm extremely biased and a huge fan of Cerrone and dislike Gaethje so take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt...
Cerrone has 17 finishes in the UFC, Gaethje only has 12 UFC fights. Cerrone went 19-4 in his first 23 UFC fights, Gathje 8-4. Gaethje eye poked Barboza, Fiziev and headbutted MJ. (Not to mention eye poking and headbutting Poirier twice in their first fight). MJ got visibly wobbled by the headbutt and Fiziev claims he wasn't the same after the eye poke, I need to rewatch that one but my friend said he watched it and the fight shifted right after Fiziev got poked.
Who knows, without those fouls his record might be more like 5-7 in the UFC and I also think there are fights he would have lost before the UFC if it weren't for all the fouling, dude's a serial fouler.
Cerrone has 17 finishes in the UFC, Gaethje only has 12 UFC fights. Cerrone went 19-4 in his first 23 UFC fights, Gathje 8-4. Gaethje eye poked Barboza, Fiziev and headbutted MJ. (Not to mention eye poking and headbutting Poirier twice in their first fight). MJ got visibly wobbled by the headbutt and Fiziev claims he wasn't the same after the eye poke, I need to rewatch that one but my friend said he watched it and the fight shifted right after Fiziev got poked.
Who knows, without those fouls his record might be more like 5-7 in the UFC and I also think there are fights he would have lost before the UFC if it weren't for all the fouling, dude's a serial fouler.