Conor McGregor, Tyron Woodley Get In Heated Exchange After Weigh-In Altercation

A random encounter between Conor McGregor and Tyron Woodley at the UFC 2015 weigh-ins became heated just a few hours later on Friday after the fighters began exchanging messages on Twitter.

Conor McGregor, Tyron Woodley Get In Heated Exchange After Weigh-In Altercation

The original altercation didn’t appear to be anything serious after the Irish McGregor hit the scale and walked over to a table set up by the UFC staff where fighters can begin to re-energize with food and water provided for them.

McGregor was left waiting after the electricity went out in the room and he had step back onto the scale for photos. Welterweight champion Woodley, who stood by eating a piece of watermelon, emerged from the backstage area to get something from the table when he ran into McGregor.

The Irishman stared the Missouri native down as he passed and the two fighters briefly exchanged words (greetings, apparently), although McGregor made it clear he was not there to mess around.

Woodely later chose to respond on Twitter after the meeting was documented on social media.

“Some of us are really about that that life! The quiet ones are the ones really from the slums. Don’t make me go back,” Woodley wrote.

It only took approximately one hour for McGregor to respond. After that, a back-and-forth Twitter war quickly ensued.

On Thursday at the pre-fight press conference, McGregor said he was coming for “all the belts” on the table at UFC 205 and that included Woodley’s welterweight title.

McGregor and Eddie Alvarez ended up getting into an altercation on Thursday, with each one even attempting to throw a chair at the other at one point. UFC President Dana White had to separate the pair.

White and security personnel rushed the stage to stop the Irishman from turning the press conference into an absolute melee by tossing chairs around.

“I wonder what a chair would have cost me,” McGregor shouted.

White responded: “A lot.”

Following that incident, the face off between Alvarez and McGregor after the press conference was rather subdued by comparison.

The two fighters will face off at UFC 205 on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

LAS VEGAS, NV – DECEMBER 12: Conor McGregor celebrates after a first-round knockout victory over Jose Aldo in their featherweight title fight during UFC 194 on December 12, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images)

Article by Pablo Mena