Jorge Masvidal earned his biggest win to date at UFC On FOX 23 on Saturday night when he TKO’d Donald Cerrone, but the veteran campaigner admits he felt bad about it afterwards after coming face-to-face with one of ‘Cowboy’s’ relatives.
Cerrone’s terminally ill grandma is understandably his number one fan and has attended several of his shows in the past, including Saturday night’s event in Denver, Colorado, and after watching him suffer a particularly tough loss she decided to go and speak to his opponent.
“Man, she killed me, man. That was like a heart blow,” Masvidal told the UFC’s Megan Olivi later that night. “She just came up to me and she said, ‘that’s my grandson, and you’re a great fighter, and nobody has taken out my grandson like that.’”
“I might be a bad guy, but things like that, they get me. I don’t wanna beat nobody in front of their mom or grandma. I have kids, I couldn’t imagine seeing my kids going in there. That hurt a little bit.”
Still, that victory put a major feather in Masvidal’s cap, extending his unbeaten streak at 170lbs to three fights and potentially pushing him into the divisions top 10.
Masvidal has long felt that he doesn’t get the promotional push he deserves from the UFC, but perhaps that will change now, with Dana White telling the media at the post-fight press conference that if he continues to fight like that, ‘Gambred’ has what it takes to become the welterweight champion.
