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18th Aug 2016

WATCH: This is what the bottle-throwing madness looked like from SBG’s point of view

Tensions running high

Darragh Murphy

UFC 202 is made all the more interesting by the teammate vs. teammate narrative at play with Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz and Artem Lobov vs. Chris Avila.

But that storyline nearly got underway a few days early as the larger teams from Dublin and Stockton almost clashed at a pre-fight press conference.

You’ve probably already seen the scenes that followed Diaz’s decision to leave the stage early on Wednesday night, when he and ‘The Notorious’ exchanged bottles and cans across a bank of media members.

MMA Latest News’ James Edwards was sat among the representatives of Straight Blast Gym when the fracas broke out and he captured the likes of John Kavanagh, Owen Roddy and Cian Cowley as they reacted to the uproar.

Thankfully, the Cesar Gracie fighters were pulled from the David Copperfield Theatre at the MGM Grand before the camps got the chance to get close to one another.

Because that could have turned ugly.

On the latest episode of the GAA Hour Hurling Show Wooly and the lads reflect on a monumental weekend of action. Listen below or subscribe here on iTunes