Cat Zingano Says Angela Magana Was Trying to Piss People Off Before Justino Altercation

Cat Zingano spoke with MMA Fighting about the altercation that went down between her Angela Magana and Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino at the UFC Fighter Retreat. Justino was cited for misdemeanor battery for the incident, in which she allegedly punched Magana after an argument between the two over Magana’s taunting of Justino’s looks online.

Highlights from Zingano’s interview are below:

On Mangana’s attitude that weekend: “That girl, all weekend, was trying to piss somebody off. I had to leave the night I got there the room I was in, because I was around my teammates and she was on Alliance before I ever got there. I had never met her. Now we’re all in the same spot, same place, and they all know her really well but she kept taking shots at me — like digging at me, saying shit, to intentionally passive aggressively hurt my feelings.”

On trying to keep away from Magana: “Eventually I was like, dude, all these people [from Alliance] know her and love her, and if I snap on her right now, I’m going to be the bad guy. I would rather not spend a minute with my team and just avoid making shit awkward, than one more second around this girl. I’ll just go hang out with my old team. Everyone knows I get along with everyone, and nothing would be weird. It was just, anything to get away from her. So when I heard Cris did that, I was actually with the Alliance team, and when they were all like, dude Angela just got punched in the face by ‘Cyborg,’ I was not surprised.”

On Mangana being out after the altercation: “The crazy part too is that she was partying after. She was so hurt she has a mild concussion, or whatever, her tooth was loose — now all of a sudden Cris knocked her tooth out and she’s sitting there saying she has this concussion, acute brain injury, whatever — but she was drinking, playing beer pong and dancing. It’s like, go to your room and fake it. Don’t fake it in the middle of everything.”