Werdum: I would have slapped McGregor
Fabricio Werdum: “I saw Conor McGregor touch Jose Aldo’s head, and this is not good, because this is fighting. If this guy touches me, maybe I have a chair in my hand.”
The oddsmakers say UFC lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos will likely beat featherweight champion Conor McGregor at UFC 197, but ‘Notorious’ was Bambi vs. Godzilla at the latest media event. UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum, a frequent training partner of fellow Brazilian Dos Anjos, said if he was in RDA’s place, chairs might have been flying.
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When the guys had a question for Rafael, he talked at the same time,” said Werdum as transcribed by Steven Marrocco for MMAjunkie. “This is not good, . I’m there, (and) the guy did this, I would grab the water or the juice and (throw it at him), 100 percent, or I would say hey (and slapped him) and said, ‘Hey, be quiet.’
It’s a different personality. Rafael is very smart guy; he controls himself. He just thinks of the fight. But at a weigh-in, if a guy touches me, this is very bad. I don’t like this. It’s very important (to show) respect. You have your space, I have my space. We have a fight tomorrow – why do you touch me?
I saw Conor McGregor touch Jose Aldo’s head, and this is not good, because this is fighting. If this guy touches me, maybe I have a chair in my hand.
Werdum fights former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez at UFC 196 on February 6, 2016 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. McGregor fights Dos Anjos at UFC 197 on March 5, 2016 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.?
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