The American and the Azerbaijani will meet at UFC 313 on the night of March 9 in Las Vegas, USA.
"It would be ideal to win early and beautifully. If I manage to perform spectacularly, it will give me leverage with the UFC to get the fight with Makhachev. A good win will put me in that position. And the UFC realizes that too, since I was supposed to fight Hooker. I will go into the octagon and show my maximum. Fiziev is very dangerous and hungry. The fight will be awesome," Gaethje told TMZ Sports.