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18th August 2016
05:32pm BST

"I think he [McGregor] did that just to do it, you know, to try and get on Nathan's nerves - but it didn't happen," Perez told Submission Radio. "What happened was, he came in late all cocky, started talking. So Nathan said 'okay, he came late, I'm cutting, I'm booking.' So McGregor didn't like it and was speechless and caught him off guard and that made him mad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evvLOW0SnMk"I thought [Nate] did the right thing, just to walk out and got on McGregor's nerves. He didn't like it. He didn't know how to handle it. So he acted like a little kid and started throwing bottles - which he shouldn't have, but Nathan got to him."
Suggestions were made that the whole incident was staged as UFC 202 was in desperate need of an injection of hype ahead of Saturday night but Perez rejects that theory.
"It was a spontaneous thing," Perez said. "It wasn't planned at all. McGregor, I guess he thinks he's the king and can come in when he wants. Nathan was sitting just there talking, he didn't care. And then when he came in, then he just said, you know what, it's my turn to leave."
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