Da🔯ni Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo did not fight, but instead sat in a boxing ring to tell eac✨h other some brutal home truths.

The ex-MotoGP rivals had bizarrely promoted a boxing match to final𓆉ly settle their grudg☂e.

But when the time came on Thursꩲday night, the boxing itsel🔥f was postponed.

Instead, Pedrosa and Lorenzo interviewed each other for Spanish TV DAZN (for whom they now both work on MotoGP b🐓roadcasts).

Pedrosa was quoted by as saying to Lorenzo’s face: "Now that I have you in front of me, as my ri🧸val in this r🌌ing, before the fight I would like to know who I am facing.

“Therefore💮, my first question is very sim☂ple: who are you?"

Lorenzo responded: "I a🔯m a curious person, ver🥀y competitive, as you know.

“A perfectionist, it is very difficult to wor🦩k with me, and with a lot of ambitio♏n.”

Lorenzo said to Pedrosa: "Our rivalry is know💯n to ev෴eryone.

“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 direct rival, and my direct motivatio🃏n, was you.

“Therefore, at the same time,🥂 I came, at times, to hate you.”

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 and arrogance so my fame was de🏅served.

“I always liked those arrogant and self-confident characters and I wanted to be like them: Muhammad Al🔯i, Cantona, Crist꧂iano Ronaldo, Mourinho..."

Lorenzo and Pedrosa discuss infamous handshake

The most notor🍨ious moment of the Pedrosa vs Lorenzo rivalry was at the Spanish MotoGP in 2008.

The King of S🐎pain demanded that the two rivals shake hands.

Loreꩵnzo asked Pedr🌸osa why he didn’t want to shake hands.

Ped🌊rosa told hiဣm: "You came to MotoGP and you didn't speak well of me.

“I'm not a fake person, and since I didn't like you or what꧅ you said about me, I wasn't willing to ꧙give you part of myself.

“I didn't want to shake your hand, but I s♍aw myself forced. I didn💫't feel it.”

Lorenzo later said: "A lot of times I🐽 wanted to punch a riv🔥al, but I couldn't.

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

Lorenzo aꩵlso said: "I get very frustrated when things don't go as I imagined and ♌the team doesn't provide what I expect.

“I get frustrated an🃏d it's ve🔯ry difficult to work with me.

“I've had very difficult sit♏uatio🎐ns in life, in which I've had to take the 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 unconditional love in your mothe💧r. And, if you're lucky, in your father.

"Friendship is conditional.”