During the build-up for their UFC Austin fight, bantamweights Adrian Yanez and Tony Kelley made it clear that they didn’t like each other. All of it stemmed from Kelley’s xenophobic statements while he was cornering Andrea Lee in mid-May.
All that heat seemed to have boiled over during the fight, according to Yanez. In his post-fight scrum, the 28-year-old revealed some of the words Kelley threw at him in the cage.
“He talked shit, and I felt like I kept everything pretty cordial and the next thing you know, he starts calling me a Wish version of Masvidal.