Dean Barry and Mike Jackson might not be fighting in the octagon, but they are fighting through the media now.
At UFC Vegas 52, Barry fouled Jackson three times, and the last one ended with him being disqualified. Immediately after the fight, Barry took to Twitter and said Jackson was looking for the easy way out. The tweet has since been deleted, as has his Twitter. However, the video is still up on his Instagram.
Easy way out
“To be honest with you, I thought he took the easy way out there. Didn’t want to stay, didn’t want to continue fighting. Even when I kicked him low, he was talking on the ground to me for ages. Like, if you get hit in the nuts, you can’t be talking like that. Same with the eye poke. Straight after the ref called the fight off, he was fine. Both eyes open perfectly. He said he can’t open his eyes,” Barry said.
Jackson has since replied to Barry.
Dirty cheating mfer
In an interview with MMA Fighting, Jackson called him a dirty cheater.
“I’m going to get into why I feel that it was intentional and why Dean Barry is a dirty cheating motherfu*ker,” Jackson said. “Initially as it happened, I saw his two fingers, I was literally looking at two fingers in my eye and I’m like ‘oh sh*t his hand is in my eye’” Then I feel the pain but from my view, I just saw two fingers. They looked straight, they didn’t look curled or anything like that but again, I felt the pain so that’s why I felt that he poked me. Then I watched the replay later and I see the eye gouge, which is really wild. If I’m being honest, I wish I would have seen the replay of everything before I started doing post-fight interviews because I would have had a different sentiment. He curved his fingers, turned, and gouged. Those actions tell me it was intentional.”
Jackson wished that Barry had left what happened in the octagon. When he heard that Barry said he was looking for an easy way out, that’s when he decided to unleash his response.
“I was already done [with the disqualification drama]. He could have just left it at that. In the ring, he said, ‘I’m sorry, my bad, not my intention.’ He could have left it at that,” Jackson said. “You didn’t have to go online and say ‘Mike quit.’ You’re trying to win at this point. You’re trying to look good. You’re trying to impress people. Whatever your strategy is. But it’s not a smart strategy. That’s why he had to delete his Twitter, for being a dumbass. That all falls on him. He literally did all this to himself and he tries to blame me for quitting.”
“Dean Barry is a dirty fu*king cheater of a fighter. Period,” Jackson said. “Now you’re making excuses for your actions? I didn’t kick myself in the dick twice. I didn’t gouge my eyes out with the Pai Mei eye snatching technique. It was Dean who did these things…He has to go through and delete his Twitter cause he’s a piece of shit. He’s a dirty cheating fighter.”
Jackson is now 1-1-1 in the UFC, while Barry is 0-1.
Will Jackson and Barry rematch? It is very doubtful.
