Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Sean O’Connell was just trying to “do something funny” when he touched Matt Van Buren ’s nose at the weigh-ins for UFC Fight Night 59. When UFC President Dana White jumped in between the two fighters in an attempt to make sure the situation didn’t escalate, it gave MMA fans the impression that there was more to the situation than that, according to the light heavyweight. “As a professional courtesy, I told Ryan Jimmo for my first fight, we should do something funny. I told Gian Villante in New Zealand I wanted to do something funny,” O’Connell (16-6 MMA, 1-2 UFC) said after his win at the event, which took place Sunday at TD Garden in Boston. “I told Matt Van Buren, ‘Hey, it’s kind of my thing: I like to goof around at the weigh-ins. I’m gonna do something funny.’ And he said, ‘Uhhh, uhhh, OK.’ I tried to make it an ad-libbity (tap on the nose), and everyone tries to make it a tense situation.
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