{"id":80712,"date":"2014-01-06T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=80712"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:19:38","slug":"brandao-admits-to-threatening-poirier-with-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/brandao-admits-to-threatening-poirier-with-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandao Admits To Threatening Poirier With Stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diego-Brandao-PNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80713\" title=\"Diego Brandao PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diego-Brandao-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diego-Brandao-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diego-Brandao-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diego-Brandao-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFollowing December&#8217;s epic UFC 168 event we learned that featherweight fighter, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/poirier-brandao-said-he-would-stab-me-in-the-neck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diego Brandao, may have crossed the line with his opponent, Dustin Poirier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After their bout <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/poirier-brandao-said-he-would-stab-me-in-the-neck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poirier told us that the Greg Jackson trained fighter threatened to stab him<\/a> at the weigh-ins.<\/p>\n<p>After getting demolished in their bout, Brandao went silent, that is until today, when an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2014\/1\/6\/5270840\/diego-brandao-confirms-he-threatened-to-stab-dustin-poirier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a> was released.<\/p>\n<p>In it, he discussed these threats and admitted he has some personal work to do.<\/p>\n<p>Check it:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He was there, bouncing at the weigh-ins, staring at me. I told him backstage &#8216;if you ever do that again, I\u2019ll stab you with a pen.\u2019 That\u2019s what happened. Every time he saw me at the hotel he kept staring at me, and I responded asked what was the problem, if he looking like that because he was hungry or what. When he got inside the cage I saw he was scared. He got lucky (to win).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have a lot of things to change, including the way I speak, my personality,. People think I&#8217;m an ignorant man, but I&#8217;m a funny guy. But when I get inside that cage, I&#8217;m fighting for my family and my career. It&#8217;s hard to explain. I&#8217;m still learning, and I will be at the Top 10 one day. I have nothing bad to say to Poirier. He did a good job, and that fight is in the past. I&#8217;m learning with the losses, and I only lost to tough opponents. I will rematch those guys one day and I\u2019ll be the UFC champion.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following December&#8217;s epic UFC 168 event we learned that featherweight fighter, Diego Brandao, may have crossed the line with his opponent, Dustin Poirier. After their bout Poirier told us that the Greg Jackson trained fighter threatened to stab him at the weigh-ins. After getting demolished in their bout, Brandao went silent, that is until today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":80713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[95,215,220,493,621,11,7081,790,6488,5521,6230,930,15,5563,16,3839,1057],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brandao Admits To Threatening Poirier With Stabbing | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/brandao-admits-to-threatening-poirier-with-stabbing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brandao Admits To Threatening Poirier With Stabbing | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following December&#8217;s epic UFC 168 event we learned that featherweight fighter, Diego Brandao, may have crossed the line with his opponent, Dustin Poirier. 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