UFC : James Vick and Justin Gaethje engage in a Twitter warfare

Before the war between James Vick and Justin Gaethje has actually begun inside the Octagon, the duo has already started a war of words on Twitter.

James Vick has been bought in as a replacement for Al Iaquinta, after the latter refused to fight at the main event of UFC Lincoln.

The taunting began from Gaethje’s end who took a jibe at Vick while breaking the news about his new opponent on Twitter.

Looks like I’ll be eating @JamesVickMMA chicken legs for dinner August 25 in Lincoln

— Justin Gaethje 🇺🇸 (@Justin_Gaethje) June 28, 2018

Not the one to take any sort of insult lying down, Vick fired back instantly.

Looks like instead of you having 5 fights left in your career i beat you senseless and you maybe have 2 left after that. https://t.co/TDIhsV7sLU

— James Vick (@JamesVickMMA) June 28, 2018

And after this the duo went back and forth with neither of them showing any signs of stopping.

You will be begging another 2 yrs for a shot at top ten when I show you for the bitch ass point fighter you are.

— Justin Gaethje 🇺🇸 (@Justin_Gaethje) June 28, 2018

calm down you punch drunk jackass. Please don't take to many beating during sparring that you can't make it to the fight.

— James Vick (@JamesVickMMA) June 28, 2018

Dam you are supposed to make this fun. You are welcome now you get to tell your friends you fought in a Ufc main even.

— Justin Gaethje 🇺🇸 (@Justin_Gaethje) June 28, 2018

I actually do appreciate you takin the fight, especially when you know it'll be your 3rd knockout loss in a row and you'll be getting cut. So thanks. Hey don't worry you can always go back to the regional circuit again and pad your record against more tomato cans.

— James Vick (@JamesVickMMA) June 29, 2018

3/4 main event. Don’t bring me down to your level. You get cut after 3 losses, I do not. When you figure out how that works you will be better off.

— Justin Gaethje 🇺🇸 (@Justin_Gaethje) June 29, 2018

well at least we've both established that you're taking your 3rd loss in a row.

— James Vick (@JamesVickMMA) June 29, 2018

You so witty James

— Justin Gaethje 🇺🇸 (@Justin_Gaethje) June 29, 2018

Praised and criticised by the fans and the MMA community for his barn burner style of fighting, Gaethje will look to prevent a hat-trick of losses after suffering back to back TKO losses, which also happened to be the first losses of his professional career.

Vick, on the other hand, is a promising prospect with a 13-1 professional record. However, just like Gaethje tweeted, this will be the first time he will be in a UFC main event.