UFC lightweight Bobby Green was scheduled to fight Donald Cerrone, but “Cowboy” was pulled from the fight and matched with the newly sign Eddie Alvarez. However, Green appeared recently on The MMA Hour, and kept up the trash talk like the fight was still on.
“Obviously, I had some bad blood with Cerrone, but I’m a company dude, you know?” said Green as transcribed by Jesse Holland for MMAMania. “I was originally meant to face Abel Trujillo, then I get a fight with Masvidal and then Cerrone. It felt like I was getting rag dolled. I’m the little guy, this doesn’t happen to Jones or Cerrone. I’m just trying to get money. I’m good.
“Cerrone feels like he is untouchable, he is just the most obnoxious a–hole I’ve ever met. He was so rude and all that, saying ‘you don’t want to strike with me’ and all that. He said some racist stuff, like ‘you know how black people like to steal,’ and this was in front of like loads of people. I was laughing it off, but the real dude inside of me was like ‘I don’t let that s— slide.’
“He was being obnoxious, he was groping every woman in this place. They got husbands and boyfriends and he was just groping these girls in front of them. He was grabbing these girls’ asses like ‘what are they gonna do to me.’ He disrespected me and I really don’t like him now. It’s my time to get even with him.”
At the least it sounds like Cerrone’s next fight after Alvarez may already be set. Green is in an eight fight win streak.
However, a witness said he saw no racial language by Cerrone.
ikevallie-flagg @IKEVF
Since my name got thrown out. I remember a lot of banter between green and Donald lots of stabs going back and forth. As to racism never heard anything! My father is African American and if racist slurs were thrown around I would have said something personally.
Another Jackson MMA fighter, Phillip Hawes, also defended Cerrone.
This throwback pic from when I first started training at Jackson’s and met Cowboy definitely the coolest dude here, Hawes posted on Instagram. He opened his doors to me and didn’t even know my last name. He’s an awesome mentor and friend this journey would be way tougher without him.
