Daniel Cormier and Josh Thomson, teammates at American Kickboxing Academy, argued on social media over the UFC’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n
The UFC is the only major sports league who is still holding its events while the rest of the sporting world has gone into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Even Bellator, who currently employs Thomson, postponed its recent Bellator 241 event.<\/a> The UFC, meanwhile, decided to go ahead with its card in Brasilia, which led to a little spat between Cormier and Thomson on Twitter.<\/p>\n While the UFC had its fighters compete in order to earn their paychecks, Bellator decided to postpone its event and still pay its fighters anyways. That led to Thomson tweeting that he had three UFC fighters reach out to him asking how much the Bellator fighters got paid, leading to Cormier saying the fighters wanted to still fight. Thomson didn’t agree with what Cormier had to say about it, and the two got into a little argument on Twitter<\/a>. Check out below how it played out.<\/p>\n You\u2019re wrong, every fighter on that card and even the ones that weren\u2019t on that card sent out appreciation to @ScottCoker<\/a> for what he did for our athletes by paying them their full purses. Athletes need to be protected from themselves sometimes, u should know this more than most<\/p>\n — Josh Thomson (@THEREALPUNK) March 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n