I’m not gonna lie. As much I love the ending to this MMA beef on Instagram, I didn’t see it coming. Because this is not how fighters beef on Instagram – ever.

Here goes.

When Cynthia Calvillo weighed in heavy – and nearly fell off the scale – as the result of a rough weight cut prior to her UFC Fight Night 140 win over Poliana Botelho, Joanne Calderwood had something to say about it (via Instagram).

Poor Cynthia..the last time I made that mistake was with her and funny enough the last time I fought at strawweight! I had lots of excuses about what had happened, now I shake my head in shame at them and realise I was uneducated and unprofessional when it came down to the meat and potatoes (literally). I reached out and got help and made that decision for my career that I’ll never make that unprofessional error again. Time to get help from the @ufcpi …move up and have a bigger problem on your hands..revenge is sweet baby! #iwantthatrematch #flyweight#noneedforstarvingfighters#failtopreparepreparetofail#nomorefuckups #jojo2.0

As you might recall, Calvillo defeated Calderwood last year at UFC Fight Night 113 by unanimous decision. It was a close bout, but Calvillo (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) almost submitted Calderwood (12-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC) in the first and final rounds. And, yes, as Calderwood mentioned in her Instagram post, she weighed 118 pounds for their scheduled strawweight bout and decided to move up to flyweight after missing weight.

Well, it took five days, but Calvillo must have finally seen Calderwood’s post as she issued a fiery response to Calderwood’s choice words on Wednesday (via Instagram).

Dear @badmofo_jojo , Not once did I ever criticize you for not making weight in our fight. If anything I sympathized. When you apologized I didn’t shrub you off and act like a bitch. Let’s be clear this is the first time I missed weight and I only spoke the truth about what happened. I learned from this error and it will not happen again. As for you, if and when I decide to move up to 125lbs I will gladly whoop your ass again and this time the bell won’t save you

See, now thisis the part where you’d expect things to escalate. But just when you think business is about to pick up with this Instagram beef, they … squash it?

@badmofo_jojo That was a milestone in my career and I’m truly grateful because it changed me for the better..I was stating that on my post and I hope it does the same for you. You looked in a real bad way and I have strong belief now that we should’t be killing ourselves like that anymore. But anyway good luck with your next cut and when you do come to 125lbs we will see what an actual ass whooping looks like.

@cynthia.calvillo @badmofo_joj DEAL! And good luck to you as well. Lessons learn. We live to fight another day!

Wait a minute. Ladies, this is a full-blown beef on social media. You don’t just virtually hug it out after promises of future ass whoopings on each other.

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