Sometimes things that seem malicious are nothing more than strange coincidences as UFC middleweight Chris Curtis found out this week in Las Vegas.
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“Alright guys, story time. We’re going to do an update on ‘evil Chase Hooper’,” Curtis starts the video off.
Curtis (31-11) accused his opponent at UFC Vegas 101, Roman Kopylov, of sending spies into his camp just last week.
“Couple weeks ago, 2 Russians show up looking to be part of the team. After 2 weeks they vanish soon as Kopylov comes into town and are now training together. Scumbag move, Kopylov,” Curtis wrote on his Instagram story.
It turns out it was nothing more than a series of coincidences turning this into one hilarious situation.
“I’m very rarely ever wrong, but when I am wrong on those rare occasions, I will admit to being wrong. I always say, you know, like f*ck coincidences, are not real. It turns out they are. Through like three different, kind of interconnected coincidences going off at the same time, it turns out evil Chase Hooper Kopylov isn’t actually evil Russian with spies,” he said.
UFC light heavyweight Johnny Walker is in town training at Xtreme Couture getting ready for UFC 311. His opponent that night will be Bogdan Guskov who has trained with the team at Xtreme Couture before.
Teammates fighting each other usually means one of them will move to another gym nearby to train. Guskov went off to Syndicate MMA.
“His (Guskov’s) corners are the Russians that were at the gym. So they’re at Xtreme and then he got into town, which I knew he was I saw him in town, roughly like around the time that Kopylov did,” he continued.
“Apparently those are the two Russians that vanished, but they vanished because he’s (Guskov) is back in town. So that was unrelated to the Kopylov thing.”
On top of that Guskov’s team ended up at the UFC PI, where Kopylov is training, and that added to the thought that they were spies.
“I talked to Kopylov earlier today. We actually got all of us in the same room together at the same time. So we kind of figured it out, what happened,” Curtis said.
Kopylov had been seeing fans going after him for the alleged spies and was confused.
“He’s like ‘everybody thinks I’m the bad guy’. I’m like f*ck my bad Roman. That was on me. I will admit guys I was wrong. So like let’s not hate giant Chase Hooper,” he said.
“My bad guys. My bad.”
Chris Curtis takes on Roman Kopylov at UFC Vegas 101 on Jan 11 at the UFC APEX.
