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Focused on positivity, Jessica Eye shuts down beef with UFC 257 opponent Joanne Calderwood

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ABU DHABI – To Jessica Eye, there’s a difference between Twitter banter and having beef with someone.

Things only hit the level of a “beef” when someone does something to hurt her loved ones, according to Eye (15-8 MMA, 5-7 UFC), who competes on the UFC 257 pay-per-view main card Saturday.

“Let’s rewind this, right?” Eye told reporters, including MMA Junkie, at a pre-fight news conference Tuesday. “Maybe it’s because I’m so much of a realist in life. What beef do I have? Did your boyfriend cheat and I saw something? Do I know something crazy? Do I know bad details about you? Do I know that maybe you fart when you get out of the bathroom? I don’t know anything about you. All I know is what you do when you fight.”

Despite a perception she may have bad blood for opponent Joanne Calderwood – and despite Calderwood’s comments indicating some bad feelings – Eye claims she’s casting no ill will. Eye blames today’s social media era for that notion.

“I don’t know anything about Jojo,” Eye said. “There have been conversations on Twitter. You guys, we’ve got to stop with this social media, like, ‘Oh, I said something on Twitter, so that means it’s real or I’ve got real beef with you.’ Unless you’ve physically touched … or messed with my family or physically hurt me, you’re a notch on my life. You’re part of my belt. It’s something I have to experience so that I can keep growing and I can keep doing. Yeah, there’s been a couple of interactions on Twitter, you know what I mean?”

Although Eye says there is no beef, she partook in testy exchanges with Calderwood on Twitter in past years. Eye perceives the bad feelings that resulted were an overreaction.

“I think one of them went back so many years ago when somebody asked me a question about her, and I was like, ‘Oh, she needs to work on her cardio.’ And she was like, ‘I’ll tell you how to work on your cardio,'” Eye said. “It’s like, did she just pick me out of all the same people who said the same thing because it’s easier because I have a blue checkmark? Or is it that you want that? If that’s what happened because of that, it’s whatever.”

Eye thinks “beef” has to do more with the person who is taken aback by comments than the one dishing them out. It exposes insecurities and causes anger.

“I don’t have beef with anybody,” Eye said. “If you have beef with me, it’s probably because you don’t like yourself and you said something that you don’t like about yourself. That’s as much as I know in that regard with it. So if Jojo, if that’s what she needs to want to hate me a little bit, then go for it, girl.”

UFC 257 takes place Saturday at Etihad Stadium. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

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