Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo🐠 did not fight, but instead sat in a boxing ring to tell each other🐎 some brutal home truths.

The ex-MotoGP rivals had bizarrely promoted a boxing match to finally settle their grudgeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ.

But when t𝓰he ti🧔me came on Thursday night, the boxing itself was postponed.

Instead, Pedrosa and Lorenzo in𝓰t𒁃erviewed each other for Spanish TV DAZN (for whom they now both work on MotoGP broadcasts).

Pedrosa was quoted by as saying to Lorenzo’s face: "Now📖 that I have you in front of me, as my rival in this ring, before the fight I would like to know who I am facing.

“Therefore, my first question is very simple: who 🌳are you?"

Lorenzoꦆ responded: "I am a curious person, very competitꦆive, as you know.

“A perfectionist, it is verꦐy difficult to woꦡrk with me, and with a lot of ambition.”

Lorenzo said to Pedrosa: "Our rivalry is known🌊 to everyone.

“But, at some point did you come to hate me?"

Pedrosa answered: "Of course, don't doubt it.

“I can't deny that there have been moments in which my di💛rect rival, and my direct motivation, was you.

“Therefore, at the same time, I came, at times, to hate yo🤡u.”

Lorenzo said: "I have been very shy and insecure, but I have always tried to transform myself, through books and other ways, to change that way🔯 of thinking into positive things.

“That shyness turned into cockiness a𒆙nd arrogance so my fame was deserved.

“I always liked those arrogant and self-confident characters and I wanted to be like them: Muhammad Ali, Cantona, Cristi♊ano Ronaldo, Mourinho..."

Lorenzo and Pedrosa discuss infamous handshake

The m♋ost notorious moment of the Pedrosa vs Lorenzo rivalry was at the Spanish MotoGP in 2008.

T🃏he King of Spain demanded that the two rivals shake hands.

Lorenzo aske༒d Pedrosa why he didn’t want to shake hands.

Pedrosa t♎old him: "You came to MotoGP 🥀and you didn't speak well of me.

“I'm n💖ot a fake person, and since I didn't like yo🔥u or what you said about me, I wasn't willing to give you part of myself.

“I 🥃didn't want to shake your hand, but I saw myself forced. I di♍dn't feel it.”

Lorenzo later said: "A lo๊t of times I wanted to punch a rival, but I couldn't.

“If there were no rules, I would have done it.”

Lorenzo als♉o said: "I get very frustrated when things don't go as I imagined and the team doesn't p🌠rovide what I expect.

“I get frustrated and it's 🤪very difficult to work with me.

“I've had very difficult situations in life, in which I've had to take th🌟e bull by the horns, turn around and kill him.

“With my father, [ex-manager Dani Amatriain], Marcos, the Treasury, when I exploded in Japan... I always say that you only find uꦑnc♔onditional love in your mother. And, if you're lucky, in your father.

"Friendship is conditional.”