Las Vegas — “I feel like f*cking Chucky. Look at my face,” lightweight King Green exclaimed following a come-from-behind finish of Terrance McKinney at UFC 329.
Speaking with media outlets including Cageside Press, the stitched-up Green (36-17-1, 1NC) admitted that emotions ran high in the fight. The pair had previously agreed not to compete against one another, only for McKinney to accept the bout, which left Green irate.
“You gotta understand, this is at its highest pinnacle. The emotions are high. But you gotta be able to be in the fire,” he said of regulating those emotions. “And it’s like, you gotta keep the emotions high, but you gotta control your emotions at the same time. It’s a weird game you gotta play.”
Ultimately, the hatchet was buried after the bout, which saw Green nearly finished early in round one, before drilling the body and finding a TKO finish with one second left in the frame.
“I’m a Christian, I can forgive people,” stated Green, later adding that “I want nothing but good things for him. I’m sorry that we had to do this fight, I told you not to take the fight, brother. That’s my little bro, and I didn’t want to do this sh*t. I didn’t want to shut his light out. Imma be real bro, there ain’t too many black fighters as it is.”
Green believes black fighters should stick together. “Irish fighters do it, Mexican fighters do it, but us as black folks, where we come from and what we’ve been through, it’s just different.”
Dan Hooker tweeted out “L.A. in September. See you there Bobby K Green,” after Green’s win. “I’ve been calling that guy out,” noted Green (who changed his name from Bobby to King a while back). “It’s funny, you didn’t say nothing, when I was calling you out before you didn’t say nothing. Now all of a sudden, he’s popping like that, now let’s get him. I think they see my face and they think they’ve seen this fight. But I was really just warming up.”
As for “T-Wrecks” McKinney, Green had some positive words for his performance. “He did everything right, but I’m unbreakable. My spirit don’t get broken.”
Watch the full UFC 329 post-fight press conference with King Green above.
