Combat sports often involve shows of disrespect, that can veer into the unsettling. Mike Tyson flashing Frank Bruno at the weigh-ins was different. When UFC middleweight Israel Adesanya humped a prone, barely conscious Paulo Costa at UFC 253, fans let out a collective WTFFFF.

MMA Fighting‘s Damon Martin recently spoke with Adesanya, who said from the bottom of his heart, that he’d like to take this chance to apologize… to absolutely nobody.

I couldn’t give a f*** what they think to be honest, said Adesanya. I didn’t even think about it. I didn’t even plan it. It was just justified. Like you know when you’re on ‘Call of Duty’ and you smoke someone with a head shot and then you go over them and then press circle, down, up, down, up, kind of teabag them. That’s kind of what I did.

What it is, is homophobia. People are just mad ‘why are you doing that, you’re not a man’ cause they feel inadequate. Questioning their own sexuality.

Dude said so much s*** to me leading up to the fight, insulted me in so many different ways. That was pretty much a second after the fight was over and you expect me to be gracious? Are you f***ing kidding me? I was gracious when I walked up to him and said ‘are you going to shake my hand?’ and he shook my hand and I said good fight, thank you. Thank you for the game. I was gracious when I secretly DM’d him and checked ‘how’s your leg?’ I just wanted to check on him.

I told him on the DM, you were disrespectful, so I have to be disrespectful back. If you were respectful, then I’d be respectful, but I have to make an example out of you. I let him know in the DM then he put out the video saying ‘oh I want to kill you, I want to kill you.’ Then I f***ing released the DMs saying look this is what happened when I DMed him.

I’m not an a*****. But if you’re an a****** to me, oh boy, I can give it right back.