Norma Dumont vs. Ailin Perez was elevated to the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 121 at the Meta APEX, and the bantamweight contenders continued their pre-fight verbal war at the staredown.
Dumont and Perez made weight Friday morning, and moments later, stood face to face in front of the cameras for the final time, both carrying their country’s flags. When Perez did her traditional twerk, Dumont threw condoms at her.
“You need this,” Dumont said with a smile.
While Perez was picking it up on the floor, Dumont threw money at her.
“You pay whore with money,” Dumont said. “Take it, it’s yours.”
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Both fighters discussed their personal feud earlier this week in interviews with MMA Fighting, promising to follow it all up with an intense fight.
“She’s already not someone who has much shame about anything, neither in her personal life nor anything else,” Dumont said, “so now that the contract is signed, I already have my date to beat her, I have my time to do what I need to do, what I want to do without getting arrested, so it makes absolutely no difference to me what she does outside of the fight.”
“Her weakness, everyone says it’s the ground,” Perez said, “because she doesn’t get up, because she has heavy hips and can’t move… No, her biggest weakness is her mind, and that’s where I’m going to work, I’m going to get inside her head. I’m already winning the fight, you know?”
“My team is saying I’m going to knock her out, I want to finish her, I want to put Norma to sleep.”
