Did you miss The Ultimate Fighter this past week? If so, you missed an interesting altercation between Conor McGregor and Team Alpha Male's Urijah Faber and Cody Garbrandt.
McGregor was doing what he does best: talk. He was yapping to Faber about T.J. Dillashaw. The trash talk that was being spewed seems a lot more interesting after Dillashaw's exit from the gym. McGregor called Dillashaw a “snake in the grass” and claimed that he took Faber's title and coach (Duane Ludwig).
The words got more heated when the Team Alpha Male fighters questioned why McGregor wasn't saying this to Dillashaw's face as he was in the building. That wouldn't stop the Irish star from continuing and asking where he was so that he could say it to his face.
The featherweight champion was egging on the Team Alpha Male crew with his barbs, and eventually Garbrandt had heard enough. Garbrandt, an undefeated bantamweight prospect, responded to McGregor's call of if he was going to do something about the talk, and he shoved McGregor. As expected, the altercation was swiftly broken up by the fighters surrounding the two.
There does not appear to be any lasting ill-will from Garbrandt. He said on the TUF Talk podcast (h/t Damon Martin of Fox Sports): “To be honest, I can't say at the end of the experience of TUF that I hated the guy. I don't hate the guy at all. Some of the s--t he was saying was funny.”
Ultimately, McGregor is in a higher weight classification than Faber, Garbrandt, and Dillashaw. It's not likely we see him take on any of his TUF counterparts in the near future if at all, but at least they provided the show with some quality entertainment.
