Read the hilarious reason why UFC lightweight Desmond Green doesn’t train at TriStar in Canada anymore.

UFC lightweight Desmond Green is happy in Southern Florida and has no complaints but before he hopped down South he was training in Montreal, Canada at TriStar. Many don’t realize that the reason he stopped training there had nothing to do with a difference in opinion, a change in coaches or even a desire to leave.

Green detailed the hilarious reason he’s not training in Canada during an exclusive sit down with FanSided earlier this month.

“A funny story about that, so it was like 2013 I trained, I lived up there for about a year, in Montreal. It’s like a five-hour drive from New York to Montreal where I lived. The first time I went up there I got caught with weed. I was completely spaced out, I went to the border and I had a blunt in my cup holder and some weed in my car and I didn’t even realize. It was my first time going to Canada. I just think I’m going by a toll booth and I’m like, ‘Oh Sh*t.’ So the guy looks at me like really? He told me, ‘Just pull up over there,’ but they were nice about it, made me pay a fine. They said if I get caught again I can’t come over. So they let me go and took the weed and paid a fine. Then 11 months later I get caught again and they banned me from Canada. So right now I’m technically banned from Canada. I can get back in there I just have to write a letter basically apologizing say what I’m going there for. I just never got around to it.”

Green also told us about how he broke the news to head coach, Firas Zahabi.

“So that happened and I called their head coach, and he knew, everybody knew. So I was like, ‘yo, bro, I just got banned so I can’t come there.’ Firas was like, ‘It’s cool, we will figure it out.’ So in the meantime, one of my old managers was training with Glenn Robinson who was over with the Blackzilians. I have two friends, he was friends with Glenn and the guy who owns [American Top Team] and I was supposed to go visit both for two weeks and see which one I wanted to train at. The first one I wound up going to was Blackzilians and Michael Johnson, I met him and me and him hit it off right away. Jason Jackson, Kumaru, with Henri Hooft and all the guys right away. I was like, ‘you know what? I like it here.’ In Canada, it was like negative 30 degrees in the winter so I went from negative 30 to winter being like 80 degrees. I’m staying here, I’m never going back home.”

Though it’s been some time since he’s trained there he’s not totally closed off to the idea of returning someday.

“I miss Tristar though, I was just talking to the coaches about when I’m coming back up. I have to fix my status though.”

Green is coming off a massive win over Ross Pearson at UFC Philadelphia. He was campaigning to fight at UFC Rochester, his hometown but at press time no fight had been announced.