‘Throughout Thursday’s UFC 314 Pre-Battle Press Convention, featherweights Diego Lopes and Yair Rodriguez needed to be held again by safety. The 2 aren’t even preventing one another.
Lopes headlines the occasion taking up former champion Alexander Volkanovski for the vacant 145-pound championship. Rodriguez welcomes former Bellator two-division champion Patrício “Pitbull” Freire to the octagon.
Lopes was requested about going through Rodriguez later this 12 months at on the UFC Noche combat card. Lopes responded, “What number of losses does he have in a row?” “What number of? Two? That’s not sufficient.”
Rodriguez stood and the 2 shouted at one another whereas safety saved the aside. Their beef stems dates again just a few years. Rodriguez accused Lopes and his group of beating up former UFC fighter and Rodriguez pal Marco Beltrán in 2019. Watch the altercation beneath.