LOS ANGELES — Tony Ferguson and Fabricio Werdum attended a UFC media lunch Thursday to promote their respective fights at UFC 216 next week. They ended up almost fighting each other.
Ferguson took umbrage with Werdum speaking while Ferguson was addressing the media and Werdum didn’t like how Ferguson told him to stop talking. The two UFC fighters got up, exchanged profanities and homophobic slurs in Spanish, and had to be separated by UFC PR man Chris Costello.
Werdum, the former UFC heavyweight champion, said he came close to taking a swing at Ferguson, but didn’t.