Urijah Faber som agerar coach för det amerikanska laget på TUF 22: USA vs Europe förklarar hur nästan lagkamraten och den nuvarande bantamviktsmästaren T.J. Dillashaw rök ihop med irländaren Conor McGregor under inspelningen av programmet.
Om ni missat nyheten så kommer den 22:a upplagan av The Ultimate Fighter coachas av Urijah Faber som tar över det amerikanska laget medans Conor McGregor leder de europeiska deltagarna. Men som vanligt när två vinnarskallar ska agera tränare mot varandra så kommer dom inte alltid överens men i detta fall var det Faber’s lagkamrat som nästan rök ihop med den vilda irländaren under inspelningen av programmet.
I en intervju med Submission Radio förklarar Faber:
”It’s funny ’cause Conor and I have been around each other and have an interesting relationship, but him and TJ on two different occasions have gotten into it with things escalating to, you know, them kind of bad mouthing each other. So there’s a little tension there as well and I think that’s a good fight the fans would love to see. One time TJ and Conor and I in the back of the Ronda Rousey fight in LA, we were in just a private little bar with celebrities and the UFC brass and words were exchanged, and TJ was talking about Conor’s title shot and Conor went back and forth and they were getting on each other’s nerves, really. So I think they ended up having to be split up a little bit.”
Som ni kunde läsa ovan förklarar Faber att de två nästan hamnat i bråk även innan TUF-inspelningen. Något som Dillashaw berättar närmare om nedan.
”Conor was actually talking about us saying he punked Team Alpha Male, me and Urijah. He said he punked us backstage at one of the UFC fights. We were at the UFC in LA, the Ronda Rousey card and its just a star studded arena, there is just so many fucking stars there right. So Dana invites us back to his suite for after the fights while the pressconference is going on. It’s a VIP area at the arena where everyone goes to after the fight. Conor is back there and hes hanging out with Lorenzo (Fertitta). We like to call Conor, Conor Fertitta.. It’s his boy you know what i mean, always hanging out with him. He gets to fly in his private jet with him and all that good shit you know. Lorenzo calls us over to meet some rapper, i forgot who the guy was, some big name guy. Anyways, calls us over to meet and Conor is at the table aswell hanging out with this guy and like he calls Urijah over and as soon as Urijah get over Conor instantly starts talking shit on him.”
Dillashaw fortsätter och förklarar hur saker och ting börjar eskalera.
”Like this is in a bar, he just starts talking shit.. He’s heard Urijah call him these things, Urijah made fun of Conor on social media. Like he did peewee herman jokes, you know just made fun of him. Conor must read every interview hes so full of himself that he cares about what everyone says about him. He’s like bringing up things Urijah said about him and how is gonna smack that ass on his face and all this shit and Urijah is playing back with him being professional though, We are in a room full of people like we are not trying to get into a fight right now you know what i mean.”
Sen när bantamviktsmästaren väljer att lägga sig i började ordhuggen flöda mellan de två.
”Well i come up behind him and grab Conor on the shoulder and before i could say anything he hits my hand of his shoulder and i was like ’dude look, chill da fuck out’ and hes like ’I heard what you said too, all this shit on how about i dont deserve a titleshot and fucking i talked my way into it’ and i was like ’well in my mind you fuckin did and i dont believe you deserve it’ and he said ’you dont deserve a titleshot either” and i said ’really, i didnt either man.. it was presented to me in the last minute and i got lucky’.”
”But i took advantage, like i was a huge underdog and i got too skip ahead because people were hurt you know. Hes getting all pissed and heated about it and i was like ’Look man its not our fault that every fuckin question is about you cus you talk so much shit so you better get used to people talking shit about you’ and he just looses it and starts talking all this shit.”
”He definitely got pissed off while me and Urijah just played it off and Lorenzo even called our management to say how cool we were about the situation.”
Ett möte mellan de två är möjligen att vänta, Dillashaw vill iallafall möta McGregor i framtiden. Den nästa upplagan av The Ultimate Fighter kommer bli väldigt intressant att följa, inte bara för att en viss irländare är med utan det ryktas att ett flertal svenskar ska vara med i denna säsong.
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