While promoting his upcoming co-main event against Ross Pearson, Melvin Guillard gave up some training room secrets about his former teammate Diego Sanchez during a media event in Manchester this week.
“I used to drop Diego Sanchez in practice all the time,” said ‘The Young Assassin’. “When I hit people, I hurt people. That’s just what I do.”
Coming off his ‘fight of the decade’ performance against Gilbert Melendez, Diego Sanchez wasn’t feeling the comments by his former training partner and took to twitter with the following:
@JohnnyHardbody never ounce @Young__Assassin why you trying to get attention by making up fake stories? Im not even gonna start with you OK
— Diego Sanchez UFC (@DiegoSanchezUFC) October 24, 2013
@mmamania @Young__Assassin @GilbertMelendez @mmacoachwink & everybody @JacksonsMMA know the truth your full of shit melv & never dropped me!
— Diego Sanchez UFC (@DiegoSanchezUFC) October 24, 2013
Since Melvin’s comments have come to light, he has issued a bit of a retraction, stating that the media has taken his words out of context:
https://twitter.com/Young__Assassin/statuses/393291569929146368