LOS ANGELES – Wednesday might have marked the day in which the line on online MMA trash talk was finally crossed. UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and his rival, former two-weight champion Conor McGregor , cranked up the insults in their long-running feud in an increasingly nasty series of tweets, to the degree UFC president Dana White felt compelled to issue a statement saying the company would speak to both camps about their behavior. It was enough to get even the toughest fighters to question how out of control things have spun, including UFC 236 co-headliner Kelvin Gastelum Gastelum (15-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC), who meets Israel Adesanya in an interim middleweight title matchup on April 13 at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, understands that trash talk is a part of the game. But he also believes there was no need for things to take such a deeply personal turn. Related Twitter Mailbag: How did it come to this for Conor McGregor?
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Kelvin Gastelum: If Conor-Khabib feud keeps escalating, someone will ‘get hurt or shot’ – MMA Junkie