Midnight Mania! Barber Doesn’t Respect PVZ, Just Wants To Beat Her Up

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Maycee Barber has made it really clear that she wants to fight Paige VanZant, but “12 Gauge” just isn’t interested. It’s something of an odd situation: VanZant wants to deny Barber an opponent of her profile due to Barber’s “disrespectful” tactics. Meanwhile, Barber is actually ranked ahead of “PVZ” and probably should be calling out a higher-ranked foe anyway, yet “The Future” seems stuck on VanZant.

As a result of Barber’s latest callout, VanZant took to Instagram to request a fight with literally any other women at 115- or 125-pounds. Now, Barber has fired back:

Transcription via MMAJunkie:

“All right so I’m out here at the (UFC) PI getting my recovery in, and this thing, my little phone here just keeps blowing up about Paige VanZant trying to get a fight. She keeps going on and on about this respect, and this trying to get a girl from her girl power union to come out and fight her in the cage, and listen Paige, I’m not looking to go out there and fight you out of respect. I’m looking to go out there and sign a contract with another girl and have her actually show up, and I saw your thing on TMZ about begging Dana for a fight and listen, Dana White, TMZ, Paige VanZant, I’m right here. I’ve been waiting. So either sign the contract and show up, otherwise give me a contract with someone with the last name VanZant.”

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