UFC fighters Ailin Perez and Joselyne Edwards had a physical altercation earlier this month at the UFC Performance Institute.
Perez has since spoken to MMA Fighting and she has told them a lawsuit is going to be filed this week against Edwards, while also calling Edwards a criminal on The MMA Hour.
“Legally, this isn’t over, and you’re a criminal,” she said via translator.
Edwards has also shared her side of the story once their issues became public, but she has yet to comment on the potential lawsuit. MMA coach Javier Oyarzabal and fighter manager Alex Davis were also involved in the altercation between Perez and Edwards.
Davis issued the following statement on MMA Fighting, telling his side of the story:
“Jocelyn is a criminal, because she attacked me, and there was no one in that room, outside of Javier, that tried to defend me. He saved me. If it wasn’t for Javier, maybe not literally, but figuratively, [she] could have killed me. Alex Davis doesn’t have the right to [give his opinion] about something when he didn’t want to intervene in the first place until after the fact, once I was already assaulted.”
The UFC star also says that Edwards has been lying ever since their altercation was made public, just so she can make herself out to be the victim.
“She keeps lying and inventing things to make herself look like the victim, but at the same time, she’s going out on my page and saying things like, ‘When I see you again, I’m going to break your other eye,’” Perez said. “I don’t know what this criminal’s intentions are, but I know she’s lying about the situation, and she really wanted to make me not able to fight Saturday. So when she saw me fight and I won, she wanted to shoot herself, because she was not happy with the result.”