Tony Ferguson and Fabricio Werdum nearly came to blows last Thursday at a UFC 216 media lunch in Los Angeles.
The flap started when Werdum seemed to talk over Ferguson while Ferguson was speaking to reporters at Hinoki & The Bird restaurant in Century City. It escalated from there and the two UFC fighters had to be separated by UFC public-relations official Chris Costello.
When asked afterward about the situation, Ferguson intimated that he didn’t want to sit next to Werdum, because Werdum’s manager is Ali Abdel-Aziz, who also manages Ferguson’s rival Khabib Nurmagomedov.