The 2017 UFC fighter summit ended in dramatic fashion, as police were called to the scene following a scuffle between two of the promotion’s fighters.
Former Invicta FC featherweight champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino confronted UFC strawweight Angela Magana at the retreat, after being the target of some trash-talking over social media.
Police were called to the scene after “Cyborg” struck Magana. Now UFC competitor Chris Weidman has come forward with his first hand account of the incident.
In an interview with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, the former UFC middleweight champion explained what went down.
As transcribed by MMA Fighting, Weidman explained “When we got off the bus, that girl, Magana, was right in front of me. As I come off the bus, all I see is Cyborg run up to Magana’s face and they’re having words. I had no idea what was going on. I didn’t know if there was any beef. … I don’t follow (Magana) on Twitter so I didn’t realize what she was saying.
“Basically, Cyborg was going nuts on her, like all the words you can think of. She was screaming ‘Who the f**k do you think you are?’ and talking like this and blah, blah, blah.
“Magana was kind of quiet and shocked. She was kind of smiling, like a nervous smile. I was thinking, ‘Oh my God’ because she’s way smaller than Cyborg.”
“All of sudden (Magana) realizes what’s going on around her,” Weidman said. “She sees that there are a lot of people around and she sees cameras coming out. She grew some balls and all of sudden she starts cursing back at Cyborg. I was thinking, ‘That’s not smart.’”
“As soon as I saw (Magana) cursing back at Cyborg, I realize there is no one in between them and that something is going to go down,” Weidman said. “I started trying to break it up.
“I came in like, ‘C’mon, guys, let’s calm it down,’ and as soon (as I did that) ‘Cyborg’ just stops screaming at Magana, looks at me and says, ‘Don’t touch me.’
“I was like, ‘Alright, I’m good!’”
“So I backed up and then within a second (Cyborg) takes her hand and cracks Magana,” Weidman said. “Magana did a little shaky leg thing and right away she got teary-eyed. At least from what I heard, right away she started to say, ‘I’m calling the cops’.
“That was the first thing and then Cyborg just jetted out.”
