Bantamviktsmästaren Cody Garbrandt hamnade i något av en dispyt med den #7-rankade Aljamain Sterling i dagarna. Det hela började med att ”No Love” Garbrandt kallade Sterling för ”boy” under ett meningsutbyte på Twitter, något som ska ha rört upp heta känslor hos Sterling.
https://twitter.com/Cody_Nolove/status/896924186790117376
https://twitter.com/Cody_Nolove/status/896924757492236292
https://twitter.com/Cody_Nolove/status/896925883243536384
Unless you KKK stop calling me "boy" motherfucker. You liable to get ya shit beat in talking like that. Talk ya shit, don't be ass-hat https://t.co/avsGhVwIWD
— Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) August 14, 2017
Garbrandt gästade The MMA Hour
När Garbrandt pratade med MMA-journalisten Ariel Helwani under denna veckas inslag så gjorde han sitt bästa för att förklara situationen och ångrar att han kallade Sterling för ”boy”, ett uttryck som har rasistiska undertoner i USA.
“I should have called him a little bitch, not ‘boy’, I didn’t know that it was politically incorrect. I got a shirt that says ‘Hanging with the boys’, I call everybody ‘boy’. You know, ‘what’s up, boy’, I didn’t know that it was politically incorrect.
“I am not in the least bit racist. I have a sister that’s married to a black guy. I have a niece that is a mixed (race) child.”
“For him to go out there and try to ride off that fame, I told that fool that the next time I see him I’m going to fuck him up,” sade Garbrandt till Helwani.
“He tried to tell me that I was going to get jumped and all of this, he’s just a bitch and that’s what he is. I should have called him a bitch.
“He’s coming off a win with Barao at a catchweight and I don’t even want to talk about that guy.
“I just know the next time I see him he better have his hands up.”
Garbrandt kallar toppskiktet för ”easy money”
Just nu är Garbrandt inbokad för att försvara sitt bälte mot T.J. Dillashaw under UFC 217 den 4 november. Det hindrar dock inte honom från att fundera på framtida matcher där han nämner Sterling, Jimmie Rivera, Dominick Cruz och den regerande flugviktsmästaren Demetrious Johnson:
“That’s free money. Both those dudes (Aljamain Sterling and Jimmie Rivera) are free money for me.
“After TJ, and Dominick has come back out of retirement, whatever he wants to do, that is all free money. I like free money. I like two checks.
“Dom, Demetrious…what the hell is his name…Oh…Jimmie, and that guy that wears the fake gold chain oh, Aljamain, yeah… all of those cats, that’s free money for me.”
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