Last week, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight contender Gegard Mousasi revealed that featherweight kingpin Conor McGregor took to social media to “threaten him with a knife” after he caught wind of some not-so-flattering comments “Dreamcatcher” made about him.
While a threat like that should be taken seriously to avoid a war-of-words from going too far, Mousasi appeared on “The MMA Hour” to clear up the message he got from “Notorious,” saying that he doesn’t know how to take the threat from the mouthy Irishman.
For his part, Mousasi seems to think perhaps McGregor was trying to be philosophical with his words.
“Well I think that ginger-headed fuck is retarded. In the interview I said, they were talking about respect, and he texted me on Twitter. And I said, ‘What are you going to do with your 50 kilos?’ And I don’t know if he was trying to be philosophical or whatever the fuck he was writing, he was like, ‘Knife is lighter than a pound, it can cut ear to ear…’ what ever the fuck he was writing. That guy is a bum, he’s a 60 kilo guy, what the fuck is he going to do? Face-to-face he won’t say that. Twitter gives some people courage, I don’t know what he was trying to say with the knife, he was trying to be philosophical. He put a lot of thought in his message. He has a lot of time. I told him to say it to my face, but I bet he won’t do that. Come say it to my face, everyone on social media, their courage goes up.”
McGregor is known to pack heavy artillery, so it’s better to be safe than sorry.
A fight between the two combatants is unlikely to ever see the light of day, as Gegard is currently climbing the 185-pound rankings and eying a showdown against Anderson Silva, while the much smaller McGregor is looking to become the first man to ever hold two titles in as many divisions at the same time when he faces lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 on Nov. 12, 2016, in New York.
Nevertheless, it seems McGregor won’t let up on trying to pick fights with bigger men.