UFC press conferences are iconic especially because of the brawls that break out sometimes. There have been incidents with fighters but not all of them made iconic cuts. However, they have hardly been dangerous fights like the one that happened between Kai Kara-France and Manel Kape. It even included Israel Adesanya who is a teammate of Kara-France’s.

Now that Kara-France and ‘Izzy’ are about to share the stage for the UFC 305 presser, let’s revisit this previous beef. What happened between the UFC flyweight stars? Why did it escalate so much that Adesanya had to be involved?

The feud between Kai Kara-France and Manel Kape

Things got pretty heated up during the lead-up to UFC 293 when Manel Kape threw a water bottle towards Kai Kara-France in a fit of rage. He threw the bottle toward the fighter in the audience, and then he also started arguing with ‘Izzy’ who was onstage. Now the thing is, Kape and Kara-France have already had an ongoing beef, which started from the fact that the two flyweights were booked to compete on the UFC 293 card. However, ‘Don’t Blink’ later posted on social media that he was withdrawing from the fight because he suffered from a concussion during training.

He said, “So unfortunately, I’ve had to withdraw from my next fight in Sydney, Australia, UFC 293. I suffered a concussion over the weekend in training. I’ve been speaking to my coaches, my team, and my family, and they all think it’s the right decision to put my health first… I’m gutted that I won’t be a part of this card.”

After that Manel Kape was pitted against Felipe dos Santos for the UFC 293 card. Even though Kara-France could not participate in the fight, he was still present in the audience during the pre-fight press conference. Now, ‘Starboy’ was pretty angry at the withdrawal and was hurling insults towards him during the press conference.

He said, “There’s a f*cking b*tch in front of me and you are f*cking guilty because Sunday this is going to be murder because of you, you f*cking p*ssy. F*cking p*ssy. You pulled out because you were dizzy, you had three weeks to fight. Look at you.” He was so angry and simmering with rage that he did not end the feud with words alone. He proceeded to throw a water bottle at the fighter sitting in the audience. This made Adesanya intervene to stop the fight from escalating.

What happened between ‘Izzy’ and Manel Kape?

After ‘The Last Stylebender’ decided to intervene, Kape started hurling insults at him. He said  “What you want what you want what you want all right yeah yeah shut the f**k [up] sit down ”  He also continued, saying some pretty nasty things while Australian fighter Tai Tuivasa was sitting in the middle and trying to pacify things as much as possible. The RIZIN veteran turned his attention to the former UFC middleweight, champion while the security came up on stage to stop both the fighters from having a physical brawl.

Adesanya did not stay silent and said, “Look at this little midget trying to f*** with me, I’ll f****** bury you.” We even have Tai Tuivasa’s account of the whole brawl. ‘Bam Bam’ was sitting peacefully between the two fighters, but after the fight escalated, he could not stay silent and had to speak up. While the fight eventually subsided, it became the highlight of the press conference. The Australian fighter is very outspoken and energetic, so he mentioned it in his X post as well.

He said, “Got a bit heated”, with big eyes and fire emojis to show that he was as surprised as the fans. He was also excited to see the enthusiasm of the fans from his hometown and the heavyweight fighter even mentioned the same in his post.

Do you think the beef would continue if the trio met again? Tell us in the comments below.