Tommy McMillen is probably the first person to admit he’s a little crazy, but he felt totally justified flipping off Marwan Rahiki’s coaches in the middle of their fight at Noche UFC on Saturday.
Late in the fight with McMillen starting to truly take over, he threw up double middle fingers aimed directly at Rahiki’s corner. He ultimately won the fight by unanimous decision to stay undefeated, but McMillen says the beef with his opponent’s coaches really stems from an incident prior to the fight.
“I flipped him off and then I f*cking kneed [Rahiki] right in the ribs,” McMillen explained at the Noche UFC post-fight press conference. “At the end of the day, I did shake the coach’s hand, respected him but he f*cking pushed me earlier in the week. My coach Tim [Welch] is f*cking crazy but I don’t even think he would push one of my opponents. That shit’s not cool.
“That’s why I threw a f*cking Twinkie at him yesterday because I was hoping to calm his ass down. He was getting worked up, maybe he didn’t have any sugar all week so I threw a Twinkie at him at the faceoffs.”
McMillen saw a golden opportunity to get back at Rahiki’s coaches again on Saturday so he tossed him a double-middle finger salute as he was taking over control over the fight and about to get another win added to his record.
“When I was in the cage on top of Marwan, f*cking beating him up, I look over, his coach is [standing there] and I’m going to try to be nice but f*ck that dude,” McMillen said. “Flipped him off, kneed his guy in the ribs right in front of him.
“I had fun. I got my get back on those f*ckers. That shit was sick. Don’t ever f*ck with me. I’m going to have the last laugh every time.”
McMillen got the job done with a unanimous decision victory after a back-and-forth battle that resulted in a Fight of the Night bonus with both fighters earning an extra $100,000,
While it seems like the bad blood is behind them now that the fight is over, McMillen was still taking some shots at Rahiki and his team even after he got the job done in the octagon.
“You pull up the replay, my coach Tim just showed me actually, I looked at his corner and I was beefing with his corner earlier in the week and I f*cking flipped them off,” McMillen recounted. “I told them, to go f*ck themselves and I f*cking kneed him in the ribs right in front of them and I laughed. They’re literally telling their guy to get up and fight back and he can’t do shit and I’m just laughing at them.
“They’re headed back to Morocco or wherever the f*ck they’re from a bunch of losers. I’m going to go party with my team and enjoy this win.”
