Det hettade till mellan lättviktaren Tony Ferguson och tungviktaren Fabricio Werdum under torsdagens mediadag efter att Ferguson bett Werdum att vara tyst när Ferguson svarade en reporter.
Båda fighters befann sig i Los Angeles för att prata om deras kommande matcher på UFC 216 när det hela eskalerade riktigt snabbt. Det hela började med att Ferguson sa till Werdun ”Hold on, I’m talking, brother”. Brassen uppskattade inte detta och svarade med att säga ”fuck you” på portugisiska.
Ferguson svarade då med att säga; “When I’m talking you shut your mouth”, varpå Werdum gick loss.
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Så här sa Werdum om incidenten till MMAFighting.com:
The guy told me to shut up, man. We’re both sitting there to do some media. Someone was asking him a question but I turned to talk to another reporter, speaking very low since we were close to each other, and he turned to me and said ‘shut your mouth’ in Spanish, ‘shut up because I’m speaking.’ I said ‘f*cking shut up? F*ck you! Don’t talk to me like that, not with me. Go talk like that to your division. You won’t talk to me like that.’ He told me to shut up out of nowhere, man.
I know the guy. He’s not a friend, but I know the guy. He came in with all this f*cking negative energy, I went to shake his hands and he wasn’t pleasant. That’s okay, maybe he’s focused, he’s hungry, on a diet, but that’s his problem, so I stayed cool. When I went to talk to another reporter he tells me to shut up? What is this? Are you crazy? I didn’t beat him up there because something could happen and I could lose my fight. I’d break everything there. That’s why I didn’t do anything, especially in consideration to the UFC and Chris, who was coordinating everything there. F*ck, man. How can this guy come and tell me to shut up?
Werdum ska möta Derrick Lewis medan Ferguson ska ta sig an Kevin Lee om interimbältet i lättviktsklassen på UFC 216 som äger rum nästa lördag i Las Vegas.
