But I credit him a lot of respect for him wanting to try it." "Verbally, I said on video, 'Are you OK to do this?' He said, 'Absolutely.' It didn't go well for him. "I've been in that situation a long time ago where a guy showed up at my gym, he signed a waiver and wanted to fight me," Koscheck said. Someone will think they're tough, either online or in person, and want to go at it with a pro fighter. UFC veteran Josh Koscheck, who meets Jake Ellenberger on Saturday, said he was once in the exact same scenario as Neer and these things happen rather often in MMA. You're gonna walk out the same way that Josh Neer finished that guy." I'm gonna make you sign a waiver beforehand. Want to meet at the park? We'll do that, too. That video is a message to all those guys out there that want to think they're big, bad and tough. Sometimes you gotta brush it off, but some things can get personal. We're here to be professional athletes, but you have these internet trolls out there, they take pride in going out there and doing that stuff. "These guys, they don't know who they're messing with," Ferguson said at UFC 184 media day Thursday. The UFC lightweight, who meets Gleison Tibau at UFC 184 on Saturday night at Staples Center, finds no issue with the savage beating Neer, a former UFC and Bellator fighter, laid on an online troll in a video that went viral this week. Not too long ago, Ferguson said he was harassed on social media by a stranger and the man made it personal, insulting his family.įerguson told that the guy never came to his gym, but he wishes he had. LOS ANGELES - Tony Ferguson can relate to Josh Neer.
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