Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal don’t appear to be the biggest fans of one another, which is why the first ‘Embedded’ for UFC 251 caused a bit of a stir, when it showed the rivals nearly running into each other.

So what did Masvidal think of the near run-in?

Masvidal says the close encounter was “trippy”

As you can see by watching the video below, near the end of the first ‘Embedded’ for UFC 251, cameras capture Masvidal and Usman just missing one another as they get in-and-out of elevators. 

While talking to SporstCenter later, Masvidal had been made aware of what nearly happened. ‘Gamebred’, like everyone else, was taken back by what transpired (quotes via MMA Junkie).

“I didn’t know about it until they showed me the video, and that was pretty (expletive) trippy, man,” Masvidal saidt.

“That was a little surreal, because I have great peripherals, but I just happened to look right at my phone, and I had just gotten my eyes dilated, as well, so I had those funky glasses on.

So I really couldn’t see that well and, man, it just happened. …

“The bigger part of me wishes I had run into him. Just had a ‘hello, how are you’ type thing, you know? Nothing crazy.”

Uhhuh. Based off what happened when these two ran into each other a Super Bowl media event, it’s probably a good thing that didn’t occur. 

UFC 251 line-up

Here is the line-up for Saturday’s UFC 251 card, which is taking place on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.

Main Card (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

Champ Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal – for welterweight title
Champ Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway – for featherweight title
Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo – for vacant bantamweight title
Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas
Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant

Preliminary Card (ESPN, ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)

Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka
Muslim Salikhov vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry
Roman Bogatov vs. Leonardo Santos

Preliminary Card (ESPN, ESPN+, 6:15 p.m. ET)

Alexander Romanov vs. Marcin Tybura
Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov
Vanessa Melo vs. Karol Rosa
Martin Day vs. Davey Grant

Card via MMA Junkie

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