Matt Mitrione claimed Monday that former longtime UFC matchmaker Joe Silva lied to him in order to accept a fight with Roy Nelson as a substitute in late 2014.
Silva, however, is having none of that talk.
Mitrione suffered a first-round TKO loss to the veteran Nelson on a December 2014 UFC Fight Night card in Connecticut. The heavyweight accepted the fight as a substitute after Shane Carwin dropped out, but claims that Silva lied to him about whether the bout would be held in the UFC’s big cage, which has dimensions of 30 feet by 30 feet, as opposed to the 25 x 25 cage used sometimes used in smaller venues.