UFC star Diego Lopes has hit out at Jean Silva forward of their Noche UFC conflict over feedback concerning his Mexican/Brazilian heritage.
Subsequent month at Noche UFC, Diego Lopes and Jean Silva will collide in an important featherweight encounter. Each males consider they’re able to turning into world champion, and for Lopes, he must show that he’s capable of bounce again in type following his setback in opposition to Alexander Volkanovski.
No matter who you like out of those two males, there’s no denying that Diego Lopes and Jean Silva are seemingly destined to placed on an ideal struggle. Just lately, nevertheless, Silva turned up the warmth by questioning Diego’s background, implying he doesn’t know whether or not he’s Mexican or Brazilian.
As you’ll be able to think about, Diego Lopes was fast to defend himself.
Diego Lopes reveals frustration at Jean Silva
“I discover that very foolish,” Lopes advised MMA Junkie in Spanish reacting to Silva’s feedback. “Aside from all of it, we’re in a sport that’s world. If we had been within the Olympics, the place it’s important to actually symbolize your nation, OK, fantastic. However that’s not the case in MMA. Consider me: I’ve been listening to this nonsense for thus a few years from individuals like, ‘Oh, he’s not Mexican. He’s not Brazilian.’
“I’ve heard it from either side, from Hispanic individuals to Brazilians. It’s all good. I don’t care. I do know the individuals who help me and which might be with me. I bear in mind the individuals who had been with me once I actually had nothing. I let individuals discuss. One factor is for certain, although: The day of the struggle I’ll stroll out with the flag of Brazil and Mexico – whether or not they prefer it or not. It’s that straightforward.”
“I don’t wish to be speaking on the web. I did with ‘El Pantera (Rodriguez),’ however he appeared for it, after which he didn’t need to struggle,” Lopes stated. “Jean Silva is speaking dangerous about me, and that’s fantastic.
“He’s making an attempt a whole lot of issues, and even saying that I disrespected him, however to this present day, I’m nonetheless making an attempt to know once I disrespected him. I noticed an interview come out the place he was like, ‘Oh, no. I believe possibly I obtained issues confused, and that is all infantile, however I’m going to interrupt him anyway.’ that’s fantastic if he desires to promote the struggle that approach. It doesn’t have an effect on me in any approach.”
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