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Last weekend, on the undercard of the stacked UFC 225, former strawweight champion Carla Esparza gave up a close decision<\/a> to perennial strawweight contender Claudia Gadelha. Shortly thereafter, she accused Gadelha of cheating<\/a>, sharing her belief that the Brazilian was greasing on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cShe cheated in the fight; she greased before the fight,\u201d Esparza said. \u201cI was considering saying something to the referee in between [rounds]. I was going to say, \u2018She\u2019s greasing! She\u2019s greasing,\u2019 but I didn\u2019t really know how to go about it. \u2026 Even when I was trying to grab armbars during the fight my arms kept slipping down. She\u2019s a cheater, but it doesn\u2019t really surprise me. In my opinion, she\u2019s been a pretty dirty fighter throughout, so it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claudia Gadelha has now responded to these rather damning accusations. In her opinion, Esparza is only making excuses for her loss.<\/p>\n

\u201dI think Carla is trying to find excuses for what happened,\u201d Gadelha told MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cI badly injured my knee, everyone at the UFC [Performance] Institute knows that because I was treated by the institute\u2019s physiotherapist. [The physiotherapist] was the only reason I didn\u2019t pull out of the fight. She said \u2018I\u2019ll take care of you.\u2019 I kept visiting the physiotherapist during fight week to be able to fight. I felt the knee in the first round, could barely stand, and still beat Carla in her game, wrestling, so I think she\u2019s just mad she couldn\u2019t outwrestle me. She was supposed to be a high-level wrestler and that\u2019s how she lost to me.<\/p>\n

\u201dThere\u2019s an athletic commission with officials following you the moment you enter the arena up until the point you enter the Octagon, including inside the Octagon, checking if there\u2019s something on your body. Come on, we\u2019re in 2018, this greasing story is from Vale Tudo days, don\u2019t know how many years ago. At this level, today, I don\u2019t think it happens anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201dAnd by the way, my strategy was to grapple her. I\u2019m a grappler. Why would I put something on my body to not be able to grapple? I was talking to my coach now, we have a list of things written on a paper, notes of things we planned doing in the fight, and grappling was the biggest part of my strategy. Why would I put something on my body? That makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Claudia Gadelha is not the only UFC 225 to be accused of greasing. New UFC interim welterweight champion Colby Covington accused his foe Rafael dos Anjos of doing the same.<\/a><\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/13\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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