Lauren Murphy Claims She Was Resentful Of Eddie Alvarez During The Ultimate Fighter

MMA Fighting reports that during an interview for last night’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 26, Lauren Murphy spoke about her resentment of coach Eddie Alvarez.

She said on the episode: “Eddie met me super recently. He doesn’t know anything about me. I’m doing my best here and if I need two hours to process the fact that I just blew my shot at the UFC title, like give me two f*cking hours by myself to cry it out and f*cking think about it and miss my husband and miss my kid and figure out how I’m gonna explain to them that I f*cking blew it without somebody like correcting my boxing technique. For two f*cking hours. I don’t think that’s asking so much, I don’t think that’s an unreasonable request the day after I just fought my f*cking ass off in the cage. So don’t f*cking get on my ass or send out a bunch of bad energy because I didn’t go out to the gym this f*cking morning when you wanted me to. Like, I should be there immediately. I felt like I got hit by a f*cking bus this morning. F*ck.”

Alvarez later replied: “My job as a coach is to keep the morale of the team up. Regardless of what goes on, I tell these girls all the time, I don’t care what happens. I care how we react to them. If you have a terrible reaction to a loss or what goes on, you start bringing down the spirit and the morale of the whole team. It’s kind of a selfish thing to do considering there’s eight girls around you depending on you.

In a phone interview with MMA Fighting, she clarified her comments. Here are highlights:

On the issues between her and Alvarez: “I was definitely really resentful about it and I was really very envious of the girls on Team Gaethje, because they were allowed to have rest days whenever they wanted, they were having a lot of fun on their team,” Murphy said. “It seemed that their coaches really treated them with a lot of respect and I felt like I was getting the shitty end of that deal, having Eddie as a coach.”

On Alvarez’ response: “I was blown away. I was like, he f*cking said that shit about me? I can’t believe it. That’s crazy to me. I’m the one bringing down morale? Mother f*cker, you’re the one talking shit about me to the rest of the team. I’m quietly sitting at home taking a rest day and you’re talking shit about members of our own team. Who’s really bringing down the morale here? Or to say that those girls depend on me? Depend on me for what? I’m not their coach. You’re their f*cking coach. They’re depending on you.”

On if she regrets her comments: “I don’t really regret anything I said on the show, to be honest with you. Sometimes I wish I could have been a little more articulate. Sometimes I wish I had made my point a little clearer. But I don’t regret anything I said on the show, because everything came from my heart.”