Cédric Doumbé scored a highlight-reel knockout this previous weekend, but it surely’s what he stated afterward about former coach Fernand Lopez that had many buzzing.
After scoring a nine-second KO of Jordan Zébo in his PFL debut Saturday, Doumbé used a part of his post-fight victory speech to name out Lopez, accusing him of being concerned in a home violence incident along with his ex-wife, Cécile Giornelli.
“In France, I’m an enormous a part of associations combating in opposition to home violence,” Doumbé stated. “So it’s not a secret that I don’t like Fernand Lopez, folks know that. Folks actually didn’t know why I don’t like him. It’s been possibly one, two, three, 4, 5 years I didn’t wish to speak about this story as a result of I needed to guard that girl. That girl is my nutritionist, so I didn’t wish to expose her. I simply wish to defend her, as a result of she doesn’t deserve publicity like that. However it’s the emotion with the emotion, I simply wish to present to the folks it simply comes out.
“I simply advised them that it’s not about Jordan. … [Lopez] bought arrested for that. The sort of factor makes me virtually wish to cry, as a result of I actually don’t like such a stuff. That’s why I left his gymnasium as a result of even within the gymnasium, all people knew that story, however nobody strikes. I didn’t just like the environment within the gymnasium, the temper, that’s why I left, as a result of I can not work with a person like that. So I simply needed to share my emotions with the group. I didn’t do it on goal, it simply comes out.”
Doumbé’s post-fight feedback had been addressed shortly after by Lopez, who spoke to Le Parisien for a function that was printed Sunday morning. He revealed he was sentenced to 4 months in jail in 2018 following an arrest for home violence.
Lopez, the proprietor and head coach of MMA Manufacturing unit in Paris, claimed that he slapped his then-partner after which later reported himself to the police. He additionally alleged Giornelli had beforehand grow to be bodily with him along with his eldest daughter (from one other relationship) and his granddaughter. Within the Le Parisien article, Lopez referred to his personal actions as “inexcusable.”
Doumbé and Lopez are in dispute over the appropriateness of Doumbé’s involvement within the private state of affairs. Lopez stated Giornelli didn’t need the state of affairs to be publicized, whereas Doumbé stated she was grateful to see it introduced up.
“She despatched me a message, [and] she stated, ‘Thanks’ and she or he stated justice did its job, however that night time I made justice for her, so she’s very completely happy that now all people is aware of,” Doumbé stated.
Lopez advised Le Parisien that he thinks Doumbé’s habits is “harmful” and that he considers the feedback hurtful to his household.
Requested if he regretted bringing the subject up in his post-fight speech, Doumbé answered, “Not likely.”
“I’m at peace with it,” he continued. “I don’t remorse, as a result of if I can do extra, I might do extra for her, for all of the victims on the planet. If I can do extra, I might do extra, however I’m simply Cédric Doumbé.”
Lopez was current at PFL Europe in Paris, and although he and Doumbé didn’t work together instantly, that doesn’t imply that there wasn’t a tense second between them following the conclusion of Doumbé’s battle.
“I noticed him, and once I knocked the man out, I used to be simply watching him, and he checked out me,” Doumbé stated.
“[We said] nothing,” he continued. “What would you like me to say after I knocked out his man? What would you like me to say? He didn’t even come into the cage to teach his man. It means what it means. This man, I don’t even wish to speak about him longer.”
Giornelli has since responded to the quotes from Le Parisien by way of Instagram Tales by means of her Combat Diet Academy web page, thanking Doumbé for his phrases, denouncing Lopez’s account, and alleging that the abuse was worse than Lopez claims (translation credit score to MMA reporter Al Zullino).
See Giornelli’s assertion beneath:
All of this can be a tsunami for me, I by no means needed to speak about it or let something from my personal life present.
Nevertheless, regardless of remaining silent and calm for all these years, it’s clear that I’m nonetheless being smeared, and a brand new life is being invented for me.
So yesterday, it was unimaginable to not react to so many lies within the article I learn. It was this text (rag?) from Le Parisien that made me react. If he hadn’t opened his mouth, I had no motive to open mine, since till now I had by no means carried out so regardless of the quite a few public slanders I’ve been a sufferer of since 2022.
So sure, yesterday I dared to say (despite the fact that in actuality, I didn’t reveal something) that sure, it’s all lies, victimization, turning the state of affairs round, manipulating the lots and utilizing his media firepower that I by no means had and by no means will.
And he is aware of it.
And he performs with it.
In brief, all the things I went by means of… however on the time it was in personal, so I couldn’t have it documented. I assumed I used to be loopy as a result of my mind had been turned.
And I’ve simply had sufficient! These actions should cease with impunity.
Let or not it’s clear: I don’t wish to air my personal life in public. However the sufferer is me and my daughter, who witnessed all the things. And I refuse to be portrayed as a violent girl and that the state of affairs would have “escalated.”
That’s false.
And for a newspaper like Le Parisien to relay this data with out verifying it’s a shame.
To the purpose that it was this morning that the journalist requested me for the judgement, proof that they hadn’t checked something earlier than publishing their article.
Moreover, I’m a type of individuals who “freeze” in peril conditions. I had zero response aside from enduring the blows. We’re all fighters; you all comprehend it’s the worst Neanderthal reflex.
Once I lose consciousness, and it occurred twice, it’s my daughter’s crying that “wakes me up.” So no, it wasn’t a slap, and no, we weren’t a violent couple.
I sincerely beloved the daddy of my little one like by no means earlier than. Greater than I ought to have. Everybody who knew us was conscious of it. I endured and tolerated all the things. That’s why I’ve all the time protected him for years and by no means stated something.
He is aware of it and abuses this dominant place over me, over the media, and over the whole MMA sphere, which can also be my sphere. However sooner or later, I simply can’t take these assaults and this nonsense anymore. So my intention is to not victimize myself; I made decisions, they concern me and belong to me. I’m not scripting this to carry him down both, he does that very properly on his personal.
My intention is to state the info for what they’re and for what they had been judged.
I’m not one to interact in controversy, if I had been, you’ll comprehend it.
However once more, sooner or later: cease.
