Se när Khamzat Chimaev (11-0) konfronterar Paulo Costa (14-2) på UFC Performance Institute.
Jake Shields återberättar konflikten
Paulo Costa befann sig nyligen på UFC Performance Institute. Det som börjat som ett helt vanligt träningspass avbröts då en bekant röst hördes från andra sidan rummet. Det var Khamzat Chimaev med entourage. Plötsligt var lokalen scen för ett storskaligt bråk. Khamzat försökte ta sig fram och utmanade Costa gång på gång. Snabbt var folk där för att separera de två. Bristen på fysisk konfrontation kompenserades med skitsnack och förolämpningar.
Jake Shields, som var där och tränade med Costa, berättade mer ingående om incidenten i en intervju med MMA Junkie.
I was there this morning, working out with Paulo Costa, going through some techniques and some drilling, and then all of the sudden we hear on the side of the cage Khamzat starts yelling at us, cussing out Paulo ‘well you want to fight?’ So we look over and it’s him and 10 dudes. So Paulo jumps up, starts talking shit, I run over to back up Paulo, because I don’t know if they’re trying to jump him. I recognized a couple of guys, I wasn’t sure they probably wouldn’t jump me. We had a bunch of guys that didn’t recognize who ran over start talking shit and then you know…’Let’s fight now. Let’s fight now.
But as he’s saying that he’s walking down the stairs. It seemed like it was kind of more of an act maybe more for cameras more than anything. I guess someone said afterwards he had been scoping us out for 10 minutes, he wanted to fight Paulo, run in there and start swinging on him… it seemed like a weak thing, I think that’s why he was upset because Paulo called him a fake gangster and it kind of was a perfect example of him being a fake gangster.
Video på händelsen
Costa delade ett klipp på händelsen. Där kan vi tydligt se hur Khamzat, tillsammans med backning, försöker ta sig fram till Costa. Det utvecklades aldrig förbi verbal krigsföring då folk var snabba med att blockera vägen mellan de två. Se klippet nedanför.
And (Chimaev) said my name. He called me to talk. And I went there, I faced him. He said, ‘Hey, Borrachinha, why you talk about me?’ I say, ‘Man, why I talk about you? You want to fight me?’ He said, ‘No, I want to know why you talk about me.
‘If you beat Nate Diaz, I want to fight you.’ And he froze! He say ‘OK, so let’s fight now.’ And his whole team (went) to the middle between me and him. Man, this guy is scared. He’s scared as fuck! And I will show for you guys the whole video. Go look.
Senare började ett till klipp cirkulera, det tydligare ljudet avslöjar mer detaljerat vad som faktiskt sas under konfrontationen. Vi kan även se att Allstars huvudtränare Andreas Michael var närvarande under bråket.
