“For my own promotion to kind of diss me like that, it’s like, wow. It just puts the icing on the cake,” an exasperated Gurgel admitted on The MMA Hour.
“I wasn’t very happy about it. I kind of knew that they were going to do or say something, whatever they had to do to promote the fight. But to throw me under the bus like that, the way most people have said, it just wasn’t very nice, and it wasn’t very professional in my eyes.”
Of course, this isn’t really anything new for Gurgel. The 28-year-old has heard the criticism and snubs from the beginning, when she dropped down from 135 pounds to join Bellator’s 2010 strawweight tournament.
Despite her size advantage, Gurgel was never supposed to win against world-class opposition like Fujii and Aguilar. And though she ultimately did, defeating both women via highly contentious split decisions, Gurgel feels like she still hasn’t gotten the credit she deserved, from both Bellator and fight fans.
“It’s been drama from the beginning,” she explained.
“I won. I beat them both. And to not get any sort of recognition, to be pretty much spit on, it was like, wow. I could not believe that.
Gurgel: I feel ‘spit on’ by Bellator
“For my own promotion to kind of diss me like that, it’s like, wow. It just puts the icing on the cake,” an exasperated Gurgel admitted on The MMA Hour. “I wasn’t very happy about it. I kind of knew that they were going to do or say something, whatever they had to do to…
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