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In the third episode of UFC 308 Embedded, Ilia Topuria celebrates his custom fight shorts and runs into Alexander Volkanovski, Max Holloway gets emotional recounting some past moments of his career, Magomed Ankalaev and Shara Magomedov hit pads, Merab Dvalishvili, Yair Rodriguez and other UFC athletes are welcomed to Abu Dhabi with a display of traditional music and art, Robert Whittaker discusses LARPing, Dan Ige gets dialed in, Khamzat Chimaev trains, and more.

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Khamzat Chimaev and Robert Whittaker are on a collision course this Saturday night when they meet in the UFC 308 co-main event at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.

Heading into the fight, Chimaev is confident in his ability to take Whittaker to the ground using his wrestling skills—and do so with ease. He envisions this tactic playing out throughout the fight.

Takedown Advantage

“Who has stopped my takedowns?” Chimaev told MMA Junkie. “Nobody. So, I don’t think this guy will be any different. Kamaru Usman was a great champ, and he took everyone down. But I took him down. I dominated him easily in the rounds. What’s going to be different with a taekwondo or karate guy compared to Usman, who’s been a wrestler? He was a professional wrestler before.”

Chimaev hasn’t fought since his victory over former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman last October at UFC 294, as health issues slowed him down. Before that, he also scored a win against Gilbert Burns.

Despite the long layoff, Chimaev assures fans that he will come out strong, as they’ve come to expect from him, even in this five-round bout.

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Conor McGregor—in no uncertain terms—is not a fan of Johnny Eblen.

During this past Saturday’s PFL Battle of the Giants event, McGregor spent much of his time on social media roasting the action on the main card. With the exception of the main event, which saw Francis Ngannou score an impressive knockout in his MMA return, four of the top five fights on the lineup went to the scorecards and one fight in particular drew McGregor’s ire.

Eblen successfully defended his middleweight title in a rematch with Fabian Edwards, but the five-round decision victory had McGregor mocking the champion’s workmanlike effort. On Tuesday, Eblen tweeted a critique of McGregor, which the UFC star has since responded to.

“Conor went from ‘The face of the fight game’ to ‘The disgrace of the fight game,’ Eblen wrote on social media. “He embodies literally everything I don’t want to be as a man or as a human. What an embarrassment. It’s giving Icarus.”

To that, McGregor responded, “Bro the fight was absolute poo, that’s it.”

Eblen currently sports a 16-0 record and has made a name for himself as the best middleweight in the world outside of the UFC. He entered Battle of the Giants holding the No. 5 spot at 185 pounds in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings.

His criticism of McGregor stems from the former two-division champion’s lack of success and inactivity in recent years. “Notorious” has just one win in the past eight years, with Khabib Nurmagomedov, Dustin Poirier, and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. all handing him defeats.

McGregor has had plenty of time to engage in public feuds as he awaits his first fight since July 2021, when he broke his leg in a fight against Poirier at UFC 264. The 36-year-old was to make his comeback against rival Michael Chandler at UFC this past June, but was forced to withdraw due to injury.

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Mike Perry is ready to make amends.

The BKFC superstar and former UFC fighter addressed his recent DUI arrest publicly for the first time on his podcast after he was taken into custody on Oct. 12 after being stopped by police in Florida. Perry was detained and later released on $ 1,500 bail but body cam footage showed the 33-year-old bare-knuckle veteran berating the officers and calling them homophobic slurs as he was being arrested.

“I want to say I’m sorry for talking to those guys like that,” Perry said. “I was a little pissed off at the moment. They were hurting my wrists and my shoulders. I’m not going to fight no cops. I’m definitely not. Go ahead and take me away.

“I’m not doing your sobriety test because I can’t stand on one foot anyway. I have no balance. I’m not going to play your games. I cussed them out but I apologize for that. I guess I was just driving a little too fast.”

After he was stopped by police for allegedly driving “approximately” 20 miles-per-hour over the speed limit, Perry denied that he was drinking alcohol and then declined to take the sobriety test offered by the arresting officers.

The original police report stated that Perry also refused to take the breath test and he wouldn’t sign the DUI citation, which earned him a second misdemeanor charge in addition to driving under the influence.

Perry was eventually released on bail and his next hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30 in Florida.

While he’s dealt with legal issues in the past, Perry had largely avoided any trouble in recent years but his arrest landed him back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

“I do want to do better,” Perry said. “I do want to be an influence to the younger generation. Someone my children can look up to but I also want to be fun. That doesn’t mean you have to break the law. I wasn’t trying to do that. I just want to be a good yin and yang.”

Despite his recent arrest, Perry is still targeted to return to action later this year with BKFC expecting the “King of Violence” to compete on the promotion’s first ever card in Philadelphia in December.

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Both Magomedov and Bisping are blind in one eye, and ‘Bullet’ wants to become the second such fighter to win a title at 185 pounds.

One-eyed fighters unite!

Shara “Bullet” Magomedov is somewhat unique in the world of MMA: he is blind in one eye, yet has still managed to make it to the top of the sport. He competes in the UFC’s middleweight division where he’s 3-0 (14-0 MMA) and an exciting prospect.

He takes on Armen Petrosyan this weekend at UFC 308, and paid homage to one-eyed fight pioneer Michael Bisping during today’s UFC 308 media day event. Bisping won the 185 pound belt despite having to lie on the medicals to even make it into the cage. Magomedov can get cleared without sneaking about — in the Middle East at least — but still sees “The Count” as an inspiration.

“When it comes to Bisping, yes he is a motivation because he’s somebody who has went down this path already,” Magomedov said. “He’s laid down the path and he should set an example for me. So it’s much easier to follow somebody’s path as opposed to wander around in the dark.”

“I think the way he is a motivator for me and for other people is he said that everything is possible. The most important thing is not to let your hands down and keep on going forward and keep on chasing your dream, and then it’s possible.”

“Bullet” has been extremely active, but wasn’t sure if he’d be able to technically beat the record for most fights in a year (5). He did say he wanted to fight on the UFC’s upcoming Macau and Saudi Arabia cards.

As for those who might try to take advantage of his limited vision in the cage?

“I have 19 fights in my career, and every opponent has tried to take advantage of that,” Shara said. “And it didn’t go their way.”

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