Michael Chandler isn’t necessarily celebrating his highlight-reel front kick KO of Tony Ferguson at UFC 274, revealing in a recent interview with Ariel Helwani that he feels bad about turning ‘El Cucuy’ into an internet meme.
“I feel more bad for him than I do feel proud of myself, to be honest with you,” Chandler said on The MMA Hour (h/t Jon Fuentes of MMA News). “It’s one of those pictures where it’s just like, gosh, dang, man. That could be any of us. Mixed martial arts is such a ruthless, tough game, man.
“And we’ve all been on the wrong side of those exchanges.