It's probably a good thing Jorge Masvidal didn't actually see Kamaru Usman walking out of that elevator.
Could you imagine what might happen if Jorge Masvidal and Kamaru Usman ran into each other without any security nearby before their UFC 251 clash Saturday?
Well, it almost happened earlier this week while the two men were at the fighter hotel in Las Vegas prior to their departures for Abu Dhabi. As Episode 1 of the UFC’s “Embedded” series showed, they came this close to running into each other by the elevators when Masvidal was walking into one just as Usman was walking out of the other.
It appeared, from the video, that Usman looked over and recognized the man walking into the elevator was Masvidal, but Masvidal was oblivious as he was occupied on his phone.
“I didn’t know about it until they showed me the video, and that was pretty (expletive) trippy, man,” Masvidal said on “SportsCenter” on Tuesday night. “That was a little surreal, because I have great peripherals, but I just happened to look right at my phone, and I had just gotten my eyes dilated, as well, so I had those funky glasses on. So I really couldn’t see that well and, man, it just happened. …
“The bigger part of me wishes I had run into him. Just had a ‘hello, how are you’ type thing, you know? Nothing crazy.”
Considering the heated altercation that Masvidal and Usman had during Super Bowl week, you’d have a hard time convincing me that this would’ve resulted in just a “hello, how are you” type thing.
It’s probably better this way.
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