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Despite being a perfect 5-0 since signing with the UFC, Paddy Pimblett has a target on his back by his fellow fighters. Many believe the scouser isn’t good enough to compete inside the octagon and have publicly stated that.

‘The Baddy’ has an incredible 21-3 record in the sport and at just 29 years old, has plenty of time to improve in the areas he needs most. Having won each of his UFC outings thus far, it may not be long before the lightweight is knocking on the door of the top 15.

Alongside a select few fighters that he dislikes, Paddy Pimblett has been honest about his hatred for Mark Zuckerberg. While he has a history of animosity toward the billionaire, Pimblett recently stated he would be happy to train him.

“Everyone is lizard’s, lad. F***ing everyone p*sses me off,” Pimblett said during his interview with Happy Endings. “He [Mark Zuckerberg] was at a UFC [event] wasn’t he not so long ago?”

“I would [train with him], you know what I mean? I called him a lizard, but… I’ve got my Instagram back now, I’m not a**ed. If he ever wants to do some jiu-jitsu, he can get on me.”

While speaking about who he dislikes the most in the sport, Paddy Pimblett recalled his feud with featherweight title contender Ilia Topuria.

“Probably hand sanitizer boy, he’s a sausage. Some little mushroom, lad. He’s a little chorizo. I threw a hand sanitizer bottle at him.”

“He tried to like throw a slap at me, lad, when I was on my own and he was with about 12 of his mates. He tried to throw a slap at me so I stepped back and threw a hand sanitizer bottle at his head. So I just call him hand sanitizer boy now. This was in the fighter hotel when I fought in London in March.”

Related: Paddy Pimblett called out by lightweight knockout artist

Pimblett then spoke about another contender he has had problems with in the past.

“Lad, loads of people talk about me though. That little mushroom that goes by the dinosaur name… What’s his name? [It] f***ing goes with the dinosaur name. What’s his name? ‘T.Wrecks’.”

“Whatever his name is anyway, that mushroom doesn’t stop talking about me, lad. You can get his tweets up, lad. You can type a name in on someone’s tweets, lad he’s got about f***ing 700 tweets [about me].”

“Terrance McKinney. His nickname’s ‘T.Wrecks’. Lad, every interview he does, he talks about me. Every f***ing, every tweet… See that Terrance? He doesn’t know who you are. That’s the point, lad. No one knows you, you f***ing bum.”

Check out Paddy Pimblett’s wild interview below.

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Sadly no title fight this time (was supposed to be Aby vs Garcia rematch). The trashtalk between Magard and Cartwright is very fun tho. Peňaz is a KO machine trying to get to the UFC so watch out to his fight too. submitted by /u/textorix [link] [comments]

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Earlier today (Fri., Jan. 5, 2024), news broke that lineal UFC Heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou was heading back to the Riyadh Arena in Saudi Arabia, this time to face former Heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua. Once again, “The Predator” has secured one of the biggest names in boxing, though it will delay his MMA return until later than expected in 2024.

The combat sports world is going wild over the new match up, but what about the bookies? Unsurprisingly, early betting odds have Joshua as a significant favorite. At the time of writing, BetOnline.ag lists Joshua as a -500 favorite, with Ngannou coming in as a +325 underdog.

While those are certainly wide odds, Ngannou’s performance last year opposite Tyson Fury did earn him some respect, as he entered his bout versus “The Gypsy King” as a 10-1 underdog. Though he didn’t quite score the upset win, a knockdown and subsequent split-decision loss really proved that Ngannou could compete with the best in the ring.

We’ll find out March 9 if he can do it again.

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Belal Muhammad heading to Dagestan ahead of his alleged UFC 300 title shot vs. Leon Edwards certainly seems like a tip of the hand in regards to his game plan.

Sean O’Malley continues the beef with Ilia Topuria:

This thread of funny MMA offense gave me a good chuckle, it’s worth clicking through.

Liam Harrison is always getting violent on pads.

Takeru reacts to Rodtang’s injury, subsequent withdrawal, and replacement by Superlek ahead of his One Championship debut.

For being an elite top control fighter, Khabib’s bottom game was incredible in the few instances it made an appearance.

Bantamweight banger alert!

The amount of weird Twitter nerds upset at Tom Aspinall for wanting a chance at fighting for undisputed gold is shocking.

Do you like or dislike Dan Hooker’s recent physical transformation?

Slips, rips, and KO clips

It’s not hard to imagine how an elbow at this angle cut create gnarly cuts and stop fights.

Love a media member with professional fighting experience.

Beautiful body shots set up a perfect right hand connection:

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Insane tetris skills.

Midnight Music: Alt. country, 1965

Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.

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Jim Miller didn’t blink when the UFC called with an offer to fight at its Jan. 13 card.

Despite his years-long plan to compete at the historic UFC 300 event that takes place just three months later on April 13 — after previously appearing at UFC 100 and UFC 200 — the veteran lightweight refused to sideline himself to wait for that opportunity. With the most fights and most wins in UFC history already on his résumé, Miller couldn’t fathom turning down a date or an opponent just because he wanted to be the only fighter to participate in all three anniversary cards.

“I never wanted to sit and wait,” Miller told MMA Fighting. “April 13, it would be 10 and a half months between my fight in June and then to UFC 300. That’s too long of a layoff, especially at this age. I just turned 40. Time matters. With each day that goes by, the end of my career comes closer, so I’d rather be in the mix in the gym, working out, getting prepared for fights and fighting.

“I asked to fight before the end of the year. I wanted to fight November, maybe early December, but that ended up not happening so here we are into 2024 and I’ve got Gabriel Benitez.”

When he initially announced plans to appear at UFC 300, Miller approached it with a sense of finality. He always stated he wanted to compete long enough that he could cap off his career becoming the only fighter to fight on all three historic UFC events.

That’s no longer the case, however, as Miller now expects that he’ll fight well past UFC 300, but he absolutely still intends on fighting at that card.

“Listen, at this point, 300 it’s important,” Miller said. “I’ve been talking about it for a few years. When I originally brought it up, this was probably four years ago, I wasn’t certain where I would be today. I feel like I’m in a better place than I anticipated I would be. I was bringing it up to be like, ‘Hey, I was almost going to retire at [UFC] 200 so might as well retire at 300,’ but that’s not the plans anymore. I’m not planning on hanging them up just yet.”

Miller admits his shift in mindset really comes down to his health as well as his recent performances, which have seen him amass an impressive 4-1 record over his past five fights, with all of his wins coming by knockout or submission.

When he first considered retirement on the horizon, the New Jersey native had just been diagnosed with Lyme disease — a condition that can result in all sorts of ailments, including constant pain, swelling, and numbness — and Miller felt it was probably time to call it a career.

Now a few years removed from his recovery, Miller feels better than ever, so he’s not even contemplating the end of his career, although he knows the unpredictable nature of the fight game could change that at any given moment.

“That is not the plan [to retire at UFC 300], but I am comfortable talking about it because I was so close,” Miller explained. “I was preparing for UFC 196 just in agony and barely able to train, and I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore, might as well get to [UFC] 200, fight on both, that’d be great, retire then.’ I was diagnosed with Lyme disease three days prior to [UFC] 196, I was able to get through that. I’ve already looked retirement in the eye. I’ve already decided to do it so it’s easy for me to talk about it. I know that not many of my peers are willing to talk about it. Not many other professional athletes are willing to talk about it, but since I was so close to it happening, and fortunately what was driving me to make that decision was something that was out of my control but also fixable.

“I got a handle on Lyme and I know things could happen at any moment. I hurt myself a little over a year ago bending over in the kitchen to pick up a wrapper that one of my kids had dropped and I put a decent tear in my patella tendon. This could happen at any time. I could have a devastating injury at any time, one that leads me to a year, 18 months of recovery and I don’t know if I have that in me at 40. I’m playing it by ear, but where I sit, right here today, UFC 300 is not my last fight.”

Miller no longer plans on setting a timetable for his career, but he knows that day will come sooner or later. Unlike some of his contemporaries like Joe Lauzon, who has said he will eventually stop fighting but probably never declare his retirement, Miller definitely plans on announcing his intention to call it a career.

In fact, Miller actually looks forward to the chance to go out in one final blaze of glory.

“I get excited about knowing that a fight will be my last one,” Miller said. “That there is nothing after that. There’s nothing left to hold back for. I’m going to have to define it and it might just be from fighting in the UFC or MMA. I’ll obviously still be training and maybe I’ll take up some of the offers I get to compete in jiu-jitsu and stuff like that and who knows, there’s a lot of guys making money in boxing. Who knows. But I will define it. I will have that last fight.

“I want to know going into it. Obviously, things can happen and if something happens in a fight and I feel like we’re not coming back from this any time soon and we might have to do it right there but I’m not the type that makes emotional decisions. I want to know ahead of time. I’d like everybody to know ahead of time and just go out and have fun and put on a show and hopefully go out on what will be remembered a quintessential Jim Miller fight.”

As far as UFC 300 goes, Miller was promised a slot at the same time he was offered the fight with Benitez at UFC Vegas 84, but he’s not thinking any further past Jan. 13.

For now, anyways.

“I haven’t even entertained any of the, ‘Who do you want to fight [at UFC 300]?’ Any of that,” Miller said. “It’s on the radar, it’s blipping, but it’s off the screen. I’m preparing for the 13th. I’m preparing for Benitez. I’m going to go in there and I’m going to fight my fight. Because I have a set of standards that I have for myself and I’m going to make it a Jim Miller fight. I want to come out from the fight excited with my performance so I’m going to go out there and try to be as violent as possible and make it a tough fight. Make it one of my fights.

“It’s cool to hear people talk about it, hear Dana [White] mention it. When Sean Shelby called me up to offer me this fight, he said, ‘It will be a couple of months and then you’ll get 300,’ so hearing him say that a couple of months ago was great. I have a fight in a week and a half and that’s the only thing that’s been on my mind.”

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Former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic has responded to Tom Aspinall’s latest campaign against him.

Ever since Aspinall walked out of Madison Square Garden with the interim heavyweight title around his waist, the heavy-hitting Brit has had a chip on his shoulder. Typically, an interim champion immediately moves on to unify their gold with that of the undisputed world champion. In this case, that would be Jon ‘Bones’ Jones. However, Aspinall will instead sit on the sidelines as the UFC moves forward with plans to book a heavyweight superfight between Miocic and Jones.

Though Aspinall is expected to fight the winner, that could leave him sitting on the sidelines for the next year. An unacceptable reality for a fighter who just bounced back from a year-long layoff due to an unfortunate knee injury.

As a result, Aspinall has been lambasting both fighters in interviews and on social media. After taking a brief break over the holiday, he got right back to it by going in on Miocic via a series of posts online that disputed the ex-titleholder’s spot against ‘Bones’ in 2024.

“Last time Stipe fought and won, GTA: San Andreas had just come out on PS2,” Aspinall wrote, kicking of a series of scathing remarks. “He will fight next for the undisputed heavyweight title, ahead of me, who’s the interim champ, active and ranked #1 in the world right now. This makes me quite upset.”

Stipe Miocic Opens the door for title unification clash with Tom Aspinall

Miocic has since responded to Tom Aspinall, making it clear that he is not part of the decision-making process in the UFC, nor is he the one responsible for delaying his clash with Jones which was originally scheduled to go down the very night that Aspinall claimed his first UFC title.

“I have never caused a delay in the Jon fight,” Miocic wrote on X. “Tom, once I get this win, let’s talk to unify the belt.”

Most fight fans are under the impression that both Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic have plans to retire once cashing in on their heavyweight title tilt. Perhaps that won’t be the case with Aspinall’s star beginning to rise.

Regardless, it’s frustrating to see one of the division’s most exciting talents sidelined for the foreseeable future to book a bout that makes very little sense in the grand scheme of things.

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After months of speculation, it now looks like Conor McGregor’s UFC return is underway. According to recent reports, the Irishman will make his first appearance inside the octagon for the first time since breaking his leg in 2021.

Following his huge announcement, Michael Chandler welcomed the stipulations ‘The Notorious’ put on the bout and was happy with the June 29 date. Now, fellow SBG Ireland teammate Johnny Walker has spoken out on the news.

Walker sat down with The Schmo to discuss Conor McGregor’s forthcoming fight. The Brazilian expressed his excitement for the matchup which will reportedly get underway in five months, despite the doubts.

“It’s very exciting news. Everyone can’t wait to see ‘The Notorious’ come back, you know,” Walker said during a short interview with The Schmo. “I can’t wait to see that guy. I’m a big fan as well, you know.”

“It’s going to be a big boys fight. Exciting. 185 is heavy boys, so I want to see how they’re going to perform.”

Johnny Walker then gave some insight into how Conor McGregor is handling the extra weight, insisting he looks powerful against the bigger athletes in the gym.

“Yeah, he’s strong, bro. He’s a big guy. He’s strong, he’s heavy, he’s very technical. So, I’m very excited for this fight.

Many speculated which weight Conor McGregor would return at. Since suffering the career-altering injury at UFC 264, McGregor has been bulking up and is ready to compete at the fourth weight class throughout his established career.

Check out Johnny Walker’s interview below.

Related: Conor McGregor announces Michael Chandler clash on June 29, Chandler responds

What’s next for Johnny Walker?

After the premature ending to their meeting last time out, Johnny Walker is set to return to action in the immediate rematch against Magomed Ankalaev.

The light heavyweight titans will collide in a UFC Fight Night headliner on January 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

If the South American can overcome the tough test ahead of him, he already has plans for what’s next. Walker is intent on putting on a good display later this month before ideally calling out his fellow countryman and current 205 lbs champion, Alex Pereira.

Check out what Walker had to say about his title hopes in the video above.

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