The Inside Story on the Cody Garbrandt vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme Training Incident

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Recently, video emerged of martial arts movie legend Jean-Claude Van Damme accidentally kicking Garbrandt in the head during a training session at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento, Calif. Garbrandt explained his side of what happened to Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.

“He just can’t control himself,” Garbrandt said of Van Damme. “He got too excited in there. He was running all over the place like he was on shit.”

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Garbrandt, the former UFC bantamweight champion, said Van Damme was out all night drinking with the team the night before, was two hours late to the gym and took an absurd amount of time to warm up for the session. Van Damme apparently wanted to show Garbrandt some moves, but “No Love” didn’t seem to be feeling it, especially since it wasn’t long after UFC 217 when he dropped his title to T.J. Dillashaw.

“What is Jean Claude gonna show me?” Garbrandt said. “I respect the guy. But he’s two hours late, he had to warm up. I was annoyed by the whole thing.”

Then, in the course of light work, Van Damme threw a kick that hit Garbrandt right in the teeth. It made Garbrandt pretty furious at the moment.

“It was just a circus act, to be honest,” Garbrandt said. “I looked over at this buddy and his manager. I was like, you gotta get this guy out of my face.”

Garbrandt said the entire gym stopped when it happened, because Van Damme dropped to his knees and began crying, because he was sorry. Garbrandt, though, said he heard it was not the first time he had done something like that.

“It looked like I punched him and dropped him,” Garbrandt said. “People didn’t know he kicked me. I was just annoyed with the guy and I’m like, ‘all right, I’m done with this fool’ and walked out of the cage.”

Since Garbrandt first spoke publicly about what happened last month, he said Van Damme and his team were unhappy and also apologetic. Garbrandt said they released the video of the incident, but Garbrandt doesn’t “give a shit” about Van Damme and the drama anymore.

However, Garbrandt said there are no hard feelings and he even went to Van Damme’s movie premiere for “Kickboxer: Retaliation” in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Van Damme, though, was not in attendance, he said.

“He’s an old guy,” Garbrandt said. “What am I gonna do? Pummel him? It’s a lose-lose. We’re cool. I went to his premiere. It is what it is. He’s just a sensitive Hollywood guy.”

https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/2/...g-kicked-in-the-head-by-jean-claude-van-damme
 
Cody has 0 credibility.

"I KO'd TJ in training"
"I'll beat TJ when we fight"
 
Sounds like Cody got his ass whooped by the legendary Jean-Claude and is now bitter.
 
i'm basically on garbrandt's side. mainly because i can totally see a hollywood diva like van damme doing something like that for publicity. and van damme arrived two hours late? a total diva move.
 
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I'm grown with JCVD movies
I don't like much Garbrandt attitude

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I believe Garbrandt version, anybody sparred know that guy that will purposely/accidentally break the sparring pace just to land an hit, then go like "i'm so sorry"

Also in pro fighters case got an extra level, imagine if he cut his eyebrow or similar easy-to-cut point, no good for training
 
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As usual, Sherdog will use their personal feelings about an individual to determine their opinion of a specific incident.

How is any part of his account hard to believe? We all love Van Damme, but come on.
 
That's a lot a talk for something that was really "no big deal".
 
JCVD seems to be an asshole lately, wanted to throw with the green power ranger, I'm not surprised people believe he is a moron today
 
JCVD trains with GSP all the time with no issue.

Cody has an issue with almost everyone while training.

I believe JCVD.
 
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Van Damme KO'd Cody and Cody can't get over the loss.
 
I side with Cody. Sometimes old dudes like to act like they know it all.
 
Should have taken his pig-stick, an’ his boyfriend, an’ found a bus to cash.
 
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