While the UFC 212 played out in all the interesting ways in front of us not everyone had left the events of the UFC retreat behind – of course it’s kinda hard with the lawsuit pending.
One person who had a surprising reaction to this entire altercation was the recently retired bantamweight champion Miesha Tate.
“That was a great day for me, I thought it was wonderful,” Tate said of the incident. “I wish she would have punched Angela harder. Angela is a bully, you know? She’s like a child who never grew up.”
“It’s not right,” Tate said. “And I think that there should be harsher consequences for people who publicly bully people on the internet in person, everything. So, I think she had it coming, and I don’t blame Cyborg a bit.”
“I hope that the legal system looks at everything, because [Magana] really had it coming,” Tate said. “So I’m Team Cyborg all the way with that.”
“This is the real world,” White said. “Now, when you’re in that Octagon, almost anything goes. When you’re in a f*cking fighter retreat, nothing goes.”
“You can’t put your hands on another human being outside of the Octagon,” continued White, who also said he’s trying to get Cyborg a fight at UFC 214 on July 29. “It’s assault, you will get arrested, in the fight world we all love to get caught up in the ‘hey, you know what, she had a big mouth and she needed a smack in the mouth’ thing, but it doesn’t work that way in real life.”
