Fabricio Werdum Reveals What Coach Edmond Said To Him At UFC 203
The kicks didn’t stop flying after the final horn blew for the conclusion of the heavyweight clash between former heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum and Travis Browne.
Shortly before Werdum’s hand was risen up to declare him the winner via unanimous decision, after going 15 minutes in the Octagon with Browne, Werdum and Browne’s coach Edmond Tarverdyan engaged in a little scrap of their own.
Werdum and Tarverdyan seemed to have exchanged words, angering ‘Vai Cavalo’ enough to throw a front body kick to the Glendale Fighting Club’s head-coach.
When asked on exactly what happened during the altercation during the UFC 203 post-fight press conference, Werdum stated that he was simply trying to keep distance between himself and Tarverdyan:
“This coach coming, I don’t know his name, he said ‘Hey, shut up your mouth son of a bi**h’.’ I say ‘What?’ Ah he said ‘Mutha fu**a’. He said ‘shut up your mouth mutha fu**a’. I said ‘What?’ And then I don’t know.”
“I just keep the distance. I don’t got to kick him, I know he is a boxing coach. I see in his eyes he want to punch my face. And I just keep the distance that’s it. But he come first, he says a lot of things, bad things you know? And my mom say ‘never say bad things for nobody’ and I say ‘okay’ but he start.”
You can check out a video of Werdum describing the scuffle with Tarverdyan to Megan Olivi here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF3QgtiiFAM
