Tyron Woodley has labelled Jake Paul 's team as "cheerleaders" and was left furious after one of Paul's entourage had a heated row with his mother.
Paul's crew sparked a chaotic scene after the final press conference for the fight ended on Thursday, clashing with Woodley's mother who was in the crowd.
Woodley, who was walking off the stage at the time, caught onto what was unfolding and called out the member of Paul's team who confronted his mother.
A scuffle followed and security was quick to jump and prevent it from getting any worse. Woodley revealed what happened in that moment to BT Sport.
He said: "I hear somebody going back and forth with my mom. And I'm like 'Are you talking to my f****** dog? We finna bout to have a whole problem."
"When you disrespect, especially my mom, I'm going crazy. I've knocked people out before because of that. So at the end of the day, I just think the disrespect was at a level that I wasn't about to tolerate.
"I don't care about the money, the PPV or the fight. If the problem needs to be addressed, it's gonna be addressed.
"A lot of his corner guys was upset that I unveiled them. Y'all goofies, y'all weak, y'all lame, y'all corny. Y'all out here cheerleading another grown man. One of the guys was a boxer, now you reserve back to a cheerleader, dancing in the ring?"
It's not the first time Woodley's had a run in with Paul's team. Before Paul fought Woodley's teammate Ben Askren in April, the former UFC champ traded words with boxer J'Leon Love backstage.
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The member of Paul's team that got into it with Woodley's mother would later be named as "DCut".
Little is known about him, but he told The Schmo that he wasn't sorry about how the situation unfolded.
He said: "I'm not sorry. Because I didn't do anything wrong. But my team, we talked and made sure to use a different approach next time.
"There are different professional approaches we could have taken, but at the end of the day, I'm not sorry. I did what I did.
"Obviously, everyone in here is cheering who they're going for. And, you know, we're strong Jake Paul fans over here. We worked hard for this and we sacrificed everything for our guy. So, you know, we're gonna cheer for our guy."
Paul says his training for Woodley has been going great, crediting a training camp in Puerto Rico for improving his cardio.
But he is confident that he won't even need to test his cardio on Sunday night, as he predicts he will continue his impressive run inside the boxing ring by knocking out Woodley in the first round.
