Midnight Mania! Tate: Jackson-Wink Treatment of Cowboy ‘Not Cool’

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Former UFC champion Meisha Tate weighed in on the controversy between Donald Cerrone and his old gym, Jackson-Winklejohn. Cerrone had a lot to say about Mike Winklejohn, in particular, after he was booted from the gym in favor of newcomer Mike Perry. He blasted Winklejohn for allowing anyone off the street to spar pro fighters, among other complaints. In return, Winklejohn called Cerrone “narcissistic” and said the split was a long time coming. Meisha Tate came down largely on the side of Donald Cerrone. Via MMAFighting.com:

“This is reminiscent,” Tate said. “I feel like we’ve heard this story about this camp before when it was Rashad Evans and him feeling like he was pushed out of the spot with Jon Jones coming in.

“What I think is not cool, if it had been someone that had been training there like Carlos Condit or someone like that who had been training there a long time and they were gonna fight each other and both had that mutual respect, and mutual foundation at that gym, that’s different. But when the new guy is coming in and he’s like, ‘I wanna fight Cowboy’ and he comes to Cowboy’s gym, I think that the right thing to do by the gym – I think there’s some loyalty that should be towards Cowboy. He’s been there a really, really long time.”

Winklejohn’s response to this would probably be similar to the response he already gave “Cowboy”, that loyalty runs both ways and Cerrone hadn’t been showing loyalty to the gym in his estimation.

Tate explained how she thought the situation should have been handled:

‘This is probably not the camp for you to come in, Mike, because you’re fighting our boy. Cowboy has been with us forever. We’d love for you to come in for the next camp but Cowboy’s our dude,’” Tate said. “That’s how I think. Even though I know Cowboy doesn’t drive there every single day, he doesn’t train at the gym – there are some other reasons I think behind that, I think – that’s just me. That’s how I hope my gym would operate if I was under those circumstances.”

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