{"id":236869,"date":"2017-05-13T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=236869"},"modified":"2018-03-04T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:35:09","slug":"michael-chiesa-releases-statement-kevin-lee-scuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-chiesa\/michael-chiesa-releases-statement-kevin-lee-scuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chiesa releases statement on Kevin Lee scuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday afternoon at the UFC Summer Kickoff press conference, UFC lightweights Kevin Lee and Michael Chiesa were involved in a rather heated argument that led to a scuffle taking place<\/a> between the two men. While security guards were quick to restrain Chiesa, Lee managed to land a clean right hand before security guards restrained him. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, both man left the Q&A portion of the press conference before returning to the stage at the commencement to have their staredown<\/a>. Following the incident, which may or may not see the two men punished, Michael Chiesa took to social media to release a statement on the matter, saying:<\/p>\n

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, sorry to my friends, family, the UFC, my team for reacting the way I did. I pride myself on having very good temperament, I don\u2019t ever get upset about anything. Nobody ever gets under my skin, but I can\u2019t help it if someone talks about my mom. You\u2019re gonna draw some emotion out of me, and that\u2019s what happened. I let my emotions get the best of me. Won\u2019t happen again, but in terms of another man talking about someone\u2019s family. We\u2019re out trying to promote fights, we\u2019re out trying to bicker at each other back and forth and get some buzz going about our fights, and that guy wants to take it so far as to bring my mom into it. It\u2019s very classless, that\u2019s very low, and the best part is that in 44 days we get to fight about it. So, I\u2019m going to focus on my training, I\u2019m already in good shape, I\u2019m gonna just keep do what I\u2019m doing, and I\u2019ll get my revenge in 44 days. If that cheap shot he landed on me is any indication of anything he\u2019s in deep shit so\u2026I mean I\u2019m still ugly as fuck, but as I had 2 guys holding me back, he landed one nice flush cheap shot and safe to say that guy couldn\u2019t punch his way out of a wet paper bag\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 5\/13\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday afternoon at the UFC Summer Kickoff press conference, UFC lightweights Kevin Lee and Michael Chiesa were involved in a rather heated argument that led to a scuffle taking place between the two men. While security guards were quick to restrain Chiesa, Lee managed to land a clean right hand before security guards restrained him. 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