“Riveras always on the defensive“, said Abad, who was asked by Chécoles if they were friends: “No, because we have never worked together. I met Ernest Riveras at the airport in Malaysia, or maybe it was Kuala Lumpur, I don’t know. We were all in the lounge waiting and the guy was studying the times, the pilots and such. And I said: ‘My God.'”

Abad then revealed what he told his students when they told him they had been with Ernest Riveras: “Oh, be careful. I’m going to tell you things.”

“To me, for example, I don’t like that data narrative. I don’t like it. I find it irrelevant. Since I don’t know where people were born, I only have this example, but (saying) “the one from Cervera”, “the one from Mazarrón”… When Pedro Acosta overtook him, Pedro Acosta overtook him and many times he would say: “There’s Pedro Acosta overtaking, the one from Mazarrón, who took his communion on the 31st and has a number that matches such and such…”, commented the former contestant of ‘Masterchef Celebrity’.

“Knowing Ernest, there will be a counter-argument on his part because he is a guy who always stands up to the challenge and accepts all fights,” Chércoles predicted.I don’t do it in a combat way (…) I want to clarify, to put it in context, that it is an opinion about the narrative. About the narrative, and that’s it,” Abad responded.

Ernest Riveras’ response to Nico Abad

As Chércoles anticipated, Riveras did not remain silent and responded to Nico Abad through a video uploaded to his official Instagram account: “You can make fierce criticisms, even if they are not constructive. What cannot be done is to lie and be disrespectful.and that’s why I’m going to respond to someone who spoke about me out of the blue weeks ago, lying and disrespecting me.

“I don’t care if people think I’m a good or bad commentator, what I don’t want is to be disrespected. And since this person is in my profession, but it’s Bad companion and bad person, I, who have been quite far from controversies lately, will answer you tonight and I’m going to say what I think I have to say and what I feel like saying,” added the TVE journalist.

“In the end, with my way of commenting I have never been a trending topic for something bad, but he has been permanently. This is a fact and not the ones they say I use in the broadcasts,” said the journalist in clear allusion to the constant criticism that Nico Abad received as a commentator of the MotoGP races on Telecinco.

Riveras’ response did not stop there, as he also revealed what happened to the journalist when he contacted him to make a connection on social networks with commentators and narrators of other stages of the MotoGP broadcasts: “Do you know who was the only person who declined to come? Nico Abad. He has every right to do so.“.

“I think this man has been attacked too much. He has a way of commenting and he contributes his style,” said Ernest Riveras, going so far as to defend Nico Abad’s way of narrating despite his criticism.