Max Holloway yelling "I'm the best boxer in the UFC" while slipping a five punch combination he wasn't even looking at is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life.
Max Holloway to Ilia Topuria: "Last time I checked, when I was your age, I already had title defenses, buddy. So it looks like you’ve still got some catching up to do.”
(via
@jimrome
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Jose Aldo reveals Conor McGregor once left a pair of red panties on his hotel room door. Says they now exchange DM's and is happy their rivalry became a friendship.
"Let's go finish this guy. No pressure on me, baby. No pressure at all. All the pressures on him. I'm coming off the couch. You better do something about it." - Alexander Volkanovski
Francis Ngannou says he intends to have the title belt put in a public place in Cameroon to allow people to visit it and be inspired by one of their own's success.
Israel Adesanya on Sean Strickland loss: "He just never let me get into my rhythm at all. Just wasn’t able to get my rhythm because of his pressure. He was right there constantly. And whenever I was setting him up, because he’s right there, his coach would help him. Good game…
Alexander Volkanovksi: "Next time it’ll be different, but I’m going to just have a little bit of a rest. I definitely want that rematch. Spain, what I’m hearing, is gonna happen. Dana wants Spain, obviously Ilia wants Spain.
"That probably won’t be until later this year, so the…
Spoke with Tom Aspinall: "I'm fighting the most dangerous guy in the UFC on two weeks notice, but I’m willing to put it all on the line. This is my absolute dream and I’m fucking doing a Bisping."
Adrian Yanez: “In the middle when he started talking a little bit more shit, I thought, ‘Now I really don’t like you’ … He starts calling me a Wish version of Masvidal, and now he kinda wishes he didn’t say that.”
Tony Ferguson: 'You heard Khabib say, 'My father say, if you don't know how to dance, don't dance'.
'Well shit, dude, my dad tells me not to dance, I'm still gonna go fucking dance. I don't give a shit.'
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Eddie Hearn on Colby Covington press conference comments: " I don’t know anything about UFC, I’ve met Leon a couple of times, lovely fella -- I hope he smashes that geezer to pieces tomorrow night."
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@IFLTV
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Alexander Volkanovski: “If the roles were reversed, this fight is not happening. [Islam] is not fighting on 12 days notice. He needs to remember that.”
"Jorge Masvidal tried to come at me and called me a fake gangster. I have more felonies than he does, which is jailhouse talk, I wouldn’t expect you to be impressed by that but it means he sleeps on the bottom bunk, and he will know what that means." - Chael Sonnen
Jorge Masvidal (
@GamebredFighter
) says on ESPN he wants to know why the revenue split between the UFC and fighters is so low: "Does the cage cost so much to set up?"
"I don't want to fight Ilia, I want to fuck him up. There's a fucking big difference, just to make that clear. And anywhere I fucking see him, I'm going to fuck him up. Fuck this bitch, I don't fucking like him." - Yair Rodriguez
Jorge Masvidal says at UFC 241:
"Dana White came over to me like I'm in kindergarden, talking about, 'Don't give out no three piece and soda'. I go, 'What the fuck are you talking about Dana? and he goes, 'No Colby's telling me you're trying to assault him'."
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Jorge Masvidal: "I'll be at the gym, Colby, if you're hearing this because you will. Because he acts like he's not sensitive, even though he's the most sensitive dude I've ever met. He cries when he reads comics."
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Jack Marshman just revealed the army told him on Thursday he wasn’t allowed to fight tonight. He ‘packed his bags and ran away’ to fight anyway. Says he’ll find out how much trouble he’s in on Monday.
The UFC Seasonal Press Conferences are back. Next friday, a there's a press conference featuring all title fights on the January-March PPVs. Strickland, Volkanovski, O'Malley etc.
Tony Ferguson wants to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 245 in Vegas in December. Seems the perfect timeline. Interestingly, Khabib also said he'd never fight there again after the UFC 229 brawl.
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Here's a picture of Paul Craig at his last 205 weigh-in and today's 186 weigh-in. It's got a different angle and lighting so is completely useless as a comparison, but it's here.