Morning Report: Donald Cerrone sends warning to Diego Sanchez: ‘Alright motherf***er, now you’ve got to eat your words’
On Monday, UFC Vegas 26 suffered a major blow when the main event fight between Cory Sandhagen and T.J. Dillashaw was postponed due to injury. Fortunately, one of the biggest fighters remaining on the card is doing his part to carry the promotional weight.
Next weekend, Donald Cerrone will face Diego Sanchez in a bout that is being billed as the final fight of Sanchez’s career, and with the fight now closing in, “Cowboy” dropped a hype video for their fight on his YouTube channel where he issued an ominous warning to Sanchez.
“The things he says right now leading into the fight I don’t care about because they’re just him hyping himself,” Cerrone said. “It’s the things he said when I left Jackson’s, those are the things that piss me off. Like, he went to these restaurants and these places we had pictures signed and he ripped em all off and videoed it and made a big deal. So yeah, he did a bunch of under the belt things, said a bunch of bulls*** so it’s like, alright motherf***er, now you’ve got to eat your words. I’ll see you May 8 and I’ll beat the f*** out of you.”
Cerrone and Sanchez previously trained together at JacksonWinkeljohn in Albuquerque, N.M. before Cerrone’s falling out with Mike Winkeljohn in 2018. When Cerrone left, Sanchez stood up for the gym, attacking Cerrone on social media and offering to fight him then. That obviously didn’t come to pass and, ironically, Sanchez ended up splitting with JacksonWink not long after Cerrone left. But though they both have moved on from the gym that came between them, says he’s not ready to let bygones be bygones, and he certainly isn’t here to give Sanchez this wondrous retirement fight he is envisioning.
“There won’t be any touching gloves, any joking around with him, nothing,” Cerrone said. “F***ing, I’m coming to hurt him. That’s my whole goal here. Every kick, every punch, every knee, I want to break bones and hurt him bad. I want this to be his last hoorah. He thinks he’s coming in, ‘Ah, we’re gonna have a great fight with a legend and we’re gonna make fireworks.’ Bruh, you’re not riding off into the sunset. I’m gonna f***ing beat the s*** out of you and drag you behind my horse and you’re done, you’re out of here.
“I want everything cruel and malicious intentions when I fight him. Yeah, he f***ed up. Like, I want to beat his ass so bad that just before the ref stops it, I step back and let him recover and then beat his ass to that point again. That’s what I want to do. Like f***ing really beat his ass bad. Hurt him.”
Cerrone and Sanchez are two of the most tenured fighters in the UFC, with both men coming in the top-five for number of bouts in the promotion. In recent years, however, both men have had a rough go of things inside the cage. Cerrone has lost four of his last five, with the other result being a No Contest that was originally ruled a majority draw. Meanwhile, Sanchez is 1-2 in his last three bouts with the lone win coming by way of DQ steeped in controversy.
TOP STORIES
Cut. T.J. Dillashaw injured, UFC targets Michelle Waterson vs. Marina Rodriguez to headline UFC Vegas 26.
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BMF. Jorge Masvidal would be interested in bout with Nick Diaz: ‘You want to do right for your brother? Let’s go’.
Misunderstanding. Randy Brown explains bad blood with Alex Oliveira at UFC 261.
BKFC. Rachael Ostovich signs with BKFC, promotion targets summer debut against Paige VanZant.
VIDEO STEW
What the Heck.
UFC 261 commentary booth reactions.
Bellator’s top finishes from April.
Rizin throwing up Jiri Prochazka’s highlights for y’all.
Anatomy of Aung La N Sang.
Adesanya reacting to UFC 261 and talking about Vettori.
Usman talking about fighting Khabib.
LISTEN UP
The Man and the MITH. Discussing UFC 261, the champions and the terrible injury.
UFC Unfiltered. Recapping UFC 261 with Din Thomas.
SOCIAL MEDIA BOUILLABAISSE
Gnarly.
Few X-rays pre-surgery and post-surgery pic.twitter.com/7zLrBH4jZt
— Chris Weidman (@chrisweidman) April 27, 2021
Class.
Well, we’ve got this now.
Challenge accepted.@USMAN84kg if your boss Dana gives you permission to box me and make more money than you ever have, let me know and we can lace them up. I promise it will be your biggest pay day.
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) April 27, 2021
Keep making your money young man, and stay on that side. I ain’t no Disney kid and I don’t play fighting.
— KAMARU USMAN (@USMAN84kg) April 28, 2021
The amount of @nickdiaz209 related posts that I’ve been tagged in in recent days, is crazy!
— Dan Hardy (@danhardymma) April 28, 2021
It’s the perfect fight for both of us to step back in there.
You know that he won’t get matched favorably though... he’ll be used to build someone else up, which is a real shame.
The most important of titles.
It’s the words “bragging rights” for me pic.twitter.com/UVfhHOTuDo
— Derek Brunson (@DerekBrunson) April 28, 2021
A good Tweet.
Me at @ufc rankings this week pic.twitter.com/ZZSEkuzZ9c
— GIGA CHIKADZE (@giga_chikadze) April 28, 2021
FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Darrion Caldwell (15-4) vs. Leandro Higo (20-5); Bellator 259, May 21.
Chase Hooper (10-1-1) vs. Steven Peterson (18-9); UFC 263, June 12.
Raphael Assuncao (27-8) vs. Kyler Phillips (9-1); UFC Fight Night, July 24.
Mickey Gall (6-3) vs. Jordan Williams (9-4); UFC Fight Night, July 24.
Randy Costa (6-1) vs. Adrian Yanez (13-3); UFC Fight Night, July 24.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Thanks for reading and see y’all tomorrow.
EXIT POLL
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