UFC 258: Kamaru Usman tells Jorge Masvidal ‘it’s not done’, reigniting feud – ‘next time I’ll finish you’
- UFC welterweight champ says ‘if he wants to keep running his mouth, step in here and see me’
- Masvidal stoked flames for rematch, tweeting ‘full camp I take your head’, and UFC president White seems open to idea
Kamaru Usman had kind words and hugs for former teammate Gilbert Burns after retaining his welterweight title with a third-round TKO at UFC 258.
For Jorge Masvidal? Not so much.
“We got this little street thug calling himself Jesus, he thinks he’s Jesus,” Usman told Joe Rogan backstage after his win in Saturday night’s main event at the Apex facility in Las Vegas.
“Joe, we tried to make that fight several times, but he kept backing out. The only reason this man took the fight was because it was on six days’ notice and he had a built-in excuse, and he’s still running his mouth talking about he broke my nose.”
“The Nigerian Nightmare” (18-1) beat “Gamebred” (35-14) by unanimous decision on Fight Island last July, on a pay-per-view that brought in 1.3 million buys. Usman recently said he broke his nose two weeks before the fight.
Masvidal was a stand-in for “Durinho” Burns (19-4), who tested positive for Covid-19 before he could get onto the UFC’s chartered flight to Abu Dhabi.
