It was supposed to be a night of knockouts – not controversy.
But Guy Fieri found himself in the middle of an online food fight after a quick encounter with Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate at a UFC event in Miami.
A clip from the April 11 fight night at Kaseya Center showed the “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” host shaking hands and briefly hugging the controversial brothers ¬ fueling instant backlash.
By April 14, Fieri jumped onto X to set the record straight.
“I’m seeing all of your comments about the photo from Saturday’s UFC event and all I can say is that I’m devastated,” he wrote. “I was there to see the fights and when I was walking through the venue, the Tate brothers stood up and said hello and that’s when the exchanged [sic] happened.”
Translation? Wrong place, wrong moment.
The 58-year-old doubled down: “I did not know them or about them before that moment.”
Then made it crystal: “I’ll never pretend to be a perfect person but let me be crystal clear, I do not know the Tate brothers nor do I support them in any way.”
As for Andrew? He fired back with a dramatic clip from 300 – subtlety not included. Tristan stayed quiet.
The Tate brothers, already under scrutiny for serious allegations in multiple countries (which they deny), did not exactly need more headlines – but here we are.
Moral of the story : even a quick hello can turn into a full-blown internet grill session.
