“I don’t know if this is just tradition now, a lot of people say that this is a tradition down in Ecuador and this is what they do... it looks like you are having too much fun out there twerking, twirling, throwing your hips like. Michael Morales. Go ahead and wear them dresses at the press conference. Go ahead and wear them dresses at the weigh—ins. You a street walker. We knew this for a while now.”

– via social media and recent interviews roasting Michael Morales after videos of the Ecuadorian contender participating in a New Year's Eve tradition went viral

“It’s learned. Somebody told him to say it like that. I would have felt better if he would have said the N—word. Calling me a boy is crazy because I’m a grown man”

– via an exclusive interview with Sport Shredinger responding to a racially charged comment made by Shavkat Rakhmonov during their recent war of words.