Ailin Perez-Joselyne Edwards Beef: What Occurred Between the Two UFC Bantamweights?

UFC 302 is already going to be an thrilling one due to the headliner between Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier. Nevertheless, we will even get a grudge match between two feminine fighters in a bantamweight bout between Ailin Perez and Joselyne Edwards. When you’re questioning why the battle has been labeled as a grudge match, nicely, at present our sole focus will solely be on that entrance.

An issue over an altercation between Ailin Perez and Joselyne Edwards plagued UFC Vegas 82. Whereas the Argentine had her tackle what transpired throughout the incident, the Panamanian shared her aspect of the issues, too. However what was the altercation all about? Let’s discover out.

Ailin Perez, together with her coach, bodily altercated with Joselyne Edwards!

Following her win over Lucie Pudilova, the clear-sighted followers seen a bruise on Ailin Perez’s face that was there earlier than the battle even commenced. The Argentine fighter claimed that there was a deliberate try by Joselyne Edwards to injure her on the UFC Efficiency Institute in order that she couldn’t partake within the battle towards Pudilova. The explanation behind the altercation, as per Perez, was as a result of she had made some feedback about certainly one of Edwards’ earlier outings, which gave the impression to be distasteful to the Panamanian fighter.

“This irrelevant girl got here as much as me after I opinionated about certainly one of her fights… She did assault me with the intention to make me pull out of the battle,” Ailin Perez acknowledged on the post-fight pressers. Nevertheless, Joselyne Edwards refuted the Argentine’s statements and claimed that her fellow bantamweight fighter and her coach, Javier Oyarzabal, ganged up on her as she felt getting choked by the Argentine fighter’s coach.

“Whereas we had been combating, her coach attacked me from behind. He was strangling me in order that Ailin would hit me,” Joselyne Edwards advised MMA Mania. The altercation between the 2 females became a 2-0n-1 handicap battle, and the Panamanian allegedly needed to battle each Perez and her coach on the identical time.

“Her coach attacked me. I virtually needed to battle two of them. He didn’t shield anybody, he began the battle, he was the one who heated issues in order that the battle would happen, after which he attacked me and was strangling me,” Edwards added. Regardless of each of her presenting two conflicting accounts of the altercation, an eyewitness would later pop up and draw how the scenario performed out, siding with what Jocelyn Edwards needed to say.

MMA supervisor busts the parable surrounding the Perez-Edwards altercation

Longtime MMA supervisor Alex Davis occurred to have been current when the 2 aforementioned bantamweight had been engaged in fisticuffs. So far as what he witnessed, he was occupied along with his cellphone when he heard somebody yelling close to the cage contained in the PI. Similar to Joselyne Edwards confessed, Ailin Perez and her coach had been all around the Panamanian fighter. Davis even jumped in to assist Edwards when he noticed Javier Oyarzabal making use of a chokehold on the 28-year-old.

“I used to be sitting on the big Octagon within the P.I. my cellphone after I heard yelling to my proper. Once I approached the cage, I noticed Ailin and her coach on high of Joselyne, so jumped in to interrupt up the battle. Once I went to assist out and noticed the male coach choking Joselyne with a rear-naked choke, and it was very deep,” Alex Davis additionally advised MMA Mania.

In the meantime, when Ailin Perez made an look on ‘The MMA Hour’ after her UFC Vegas 82 win, she threatened to take authorized motion towards Joselyne Davis. However the Argentine hasn’t gone down that route. Regardless, they’ll get their shot to settle their variations and the extraordinary beef on June 1. Due to their historical past, the battle goes to be much more partaking for the UFC plenty.