Duane ”Bang” Ludwig och ”Team Alpha Male” gick för en tid sedan skilda vägar, efter att Urijah Faber och Duane inte kom överens. Efter det har Ludwig haft ett och annat att säga om MMA-gymmet, även om han bett om ursäkt för en del av det.
Nu har dock Chad Mendes tröttnat, och detta hade han att säga via ”The MMA Hour”:
I don’t know what the hell Duane is talking about. I’m tired of hearing about Duane and him ruling our team. Duane came here to Team Alpha Male for a short amount of time, and Duane did what he did, but I’d say 95-percent of our wins when he was here we would’ve won anyway.
Duane was the type of guy who brought a new style to our team, but we have such a unique team, everybody is such high-level athletes that anybody can come to this team with a new style, and we’re going to pick it up, we’re going to learn it and we’re going to use it in fights. So we made Duane. We put Duane on the map. Before that, Duane was a fighter who fought in the UFC who most people didn’t even know about.
When he got the offer, he basically said it’s like coming to a garage full of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. He’s going to fine tune some things and those cars are going to run like hell. That’s basically how it was. Duane had a new system that we hadn’t seen yet and that’s why things were so fun and everyone got along. Then some crazy, weird s**t happened between him and Faber, and Duane started attacking all of us in the media.
For him to say that if I would’ve worked with him, I’d be champion? That, to me, is a dig at me. That’s disrespectful and I don’t think that’s true. I did work with him. I’m not a champion. For him, his three things, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about, and like I said, to me it’s disrespectful, and I’m just tired of hearing about it.
Chad tog sig senast an Conor McGregor i en interimtitelmatch i fjädervikt, en match som han förlorade via TKO i andra ronden under UFC 189. Mendes hoppade in på kort notis efter att titelhållaren Jose Aldo skadade revbenen under ett träningspass inför mötet mot McGregor.
