MMA fighter Cody Gibson has expressed his regret after getting involved in an altercation with a man while at a bar in Las Vegas.
The 27-year-old is said to have been punched in the face and knocked to the ground after telling the man to "Google me, bitch".
Gibson told Sherdog Radio: "When I woke up this morning, I definitely had that pit in the bottom of my stomach like, "Holy crap, could I be that guy?" You know, who gets fired over some stupid stuff.
"This guy was being a typical kind of bro and started saying some stuff to me. At first, I told him I did not want to fight, two or three times. He was definitely egging on the situation, and then he started to irritate me.
"Then I told him who I was, which was probably the worst idea, because then, after that, I feel like he really wanted to fight."
Gibson, who has admitted that he was intoxicated at the time, had lost a fight that night to Manny Gamburyan at UFC 178.
