Fabricio Werdum Separated from Tony Ferguson After Tirade at UFC 216 Press Event

(Note: The video above contains language NSFW).

In a strange twist, the best feud entering UFC 216 isn't between two of the fighters set to square off. It isn't even between two fighters in the same weight class.

Following a media luncheon Thursday, the most heated rivalry is the one between former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum and lightweight contender Tony Ferguson, an event that saw the two fighters separated after a heated exchange of words. MMAFighting.com was on hand to shoot the argument, with Guilherme Cruz transcribing what was said.

After Werdum begins talking over Ferguson's answer to a question on the significance of the interim UFC lightweight title he will fight for next month, Ferguson says, "Hold on, I'm talking, brother." Werdum, for whatever reason, took great offense to this, and when Ferguson eventually told him to shut up, Werdum went off the chain in an expletive-laced tirade in Spanish and Portuguese.

"Shut your mouth, you f--king f----t," he said (per MMAFighting.com). "Don’t talk to me like that, that’s not how it works. You can talk like that to your division but with me you can’t talk like that, f----t."

The two were separated before things escalated further, but this is a surprising back-and-forth between two fighters that have no real chance of crossing paths in the cage and who are still separated from their fights by over two weeks. Look for both Ferguson and Werdum to compete at UFC 216 on October 7 (against Kevin Lee and Derrick Lewis, respectively) and keep an eye out for what sort of repercussions Werdum will suffer for letting out a stream of homophobic slurs.