‘Vagabond’ Deiveson Figueiredo ‘has become a shameless bastard’ – Wallid Ismail blasts UFC flyweight champ & former client

It’s usually mentioned that the one fixed is change. That usually feels very true in fight sports activities, the place elite abilities rise and fall, promotions come and go, and even essentially the most tightly bonded of enterprise relationships will be dashed right away. The newest such fracture comes from none aside from the UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo.

The Brazilian fighter just lately dropped his longtime supervisor, Wallid Ismail, to work with Urijah Faber underneath the MMA arm of American sports activities & esports administration agency VaynerSports. Whereas Figureiredo initially pinned the choice on supposed communication points between Ismail and the UFC, in an interview again in June he revealed that the true purpose was all all the way down to cash.

“Our disagreement was primarily based on numbers,” Figueiredo mentioned, speaking to Sherdog.com. “Once I was champion and fought [Brandon] Moreno at UFC 263, my purse was $200,000 to point out plus $100,000 to win plus pay-per-view factors. Within the third battle [at UFC 270], once I regained my belt, it was $100,000 (to point out) plus $100,000 (to win) — that’s not a champion´s purse. I referred to as Wallid and apologized to him for some unhealthy stuff I mentioned to the press once I was indignant, however we parted methods.”

For Ismail, nonetheless, it appears the Jungle Battle president and former UFC & Satisfaction fighter nonetheless has a bone to select with ‘Deus da Guerra’ over allegations that he failed to inform the UFC about Figueiredo’s hand damage and that he failed to inform Figueiredo concerning the UFC’s interim title plans. Each issues Ismail claims merely aren’t true.

“From the start I didn’t need to converse out in order to not expose Deiveson,” Ismail mentioned in a publish on social media (h/t Sherdog.com). “I had knowledgeable Deiveson that the UFC would [create] the interim belt if he couldn’t battle till July. The UFC was conscious that he was injured. I’ve conversations with matchmakers informing [them] concerning the damage. He made a press release within the press saying that he would solely wish to battle Kai Kara France in October, though I requested him to battle Brandon Moreno once more, as this is able to be one of the best battle for his profession.

“He needs to search for somebody responsible for his incorrect selections, I’m simply talking out as a result of, though he apologized to me for mendacity that he didn’t know concerning the interim belt, now he’s again to mendacity, that I hadn’t warned the UFC about his damage. That’s a scarcity of character.”

“This vagabond has grow to be a shameless bastard,” he added. “First he lied saying that I hadn’t warned him concerning the interim belt (the bastard advised me he didn’t care). The bastard apologized to me for mendacity, now he’s telling one other lie. You’re very naughty, Deiveson. I advised the UFC that he was injured and will solely battle in October. This bastard requested me to say that.”

Extra just lately, Ismail took to Twitter to answer Figueiredo’s financial claims as nicely. Notably that whereas Figueiredo’s base wage could not have been that top relative to different UFC champions, he’s the primary flyweight title holder to get a PPV lower.

Figueiredo is at present awaiting the winner of the upcoming bout between Kai Kara France and Brandon Moreno later this month at UFC 277. He’s additionally teased a transfer to the bantamweight division, noting that he doesn’t imagine will probably be doable for him to proceed reducing weight all the way down to 125lbs inside the subsequent yr of his MMA profession.