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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just banged up “The People’s Elbow.”

Currently filming The Smashing Machine — a biopic about former UFC star Mark Kerr — Johnson showed off a nasty-looking elbow injury on Tuesday via his social media.

Take a look at the bad bump below.

The 52-year-old Hollywood star and pro wrestling legend is in good spirits in the clip as he laughs off the injury as an occupational hazard.

“I’m filming a movie called The Smashing Machine and anytime your film is called The Smashing Machine, you’re kind of going to get smashed up,” Johnson said. “Look at that sucker right there. It’s like I have a cantaloupe in the bottom of my elbow. I got banged up pretty good today in our scenes.

“There might be some soft tissue damage in there. That’s a lot of fluid, we’ll see. I’ve got to get it out of there first before I get any kind of MRI.”

Johnson did not mention how the injury occurred.

The Smashing Machine tells the story of Kerr, collegiate wrestling champion who went on to become a star in the world of MMA. Kerr won two UFC heavyweight tournaments in the promotion’s early days and later became a standout fighter in Japan’s PRIDE organization.

A24 is producing the film, which is set for release this December.

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Conor McGregor may have sworn off trash talk, but the Irish star still loves a good ol’ tweet-and-delete.

The latest target of his online ire? UFC 302, which featured a headlining match up between Lightweight kingpin Islam Makhachev and longtime contender Dustin Poirier. That main event battle was pretty universally regarded as a great fight (except for one critic), and ultimately, Makhachev retained his title via fifth-round submission.

McGregor, however, doesn’t sound that impressed. In a since deleted tweet, he revealed insider pay-per-view (PPV) numbers, writing “500K ppv buys 302 done. A nothing burger.”

What’s quite interesting here is that if McGregor’s numbers are accurate — more on that in a moment — then UFC 302 was actually quite a success! Obviously, McGregor is in a class of his own regarding PPV buys, but in the current era, breaking 500k buys would be impressive and somewhat unexpected for anyone other than Jon Jones. It’s not like the UFC 302 card was particularly stacked with talent like UFC 300 or 299; it was heavily reliant on the main event.

If Poirier and Makhachev sold that much, that’s great! McGregor has bad blood with Poirier, however, and Makhachev is a trainee of his sworn enemy and potential opponent. It’s no surprise that McGregor isn’t seeing the sunny side here!

The other problem is that the PPV buys business has always been a murky one, and it’s grown more confusing and less accurate since the ESPN deal and subsequent streaming purchases. Unless UFC CEO Dana White is on the mic bragging about sales numbers, the information is hard to access.

At this point, a McGregor tweet-and-delete is better than nothing.

Insomnia

Similar to the drunken Sergio Pettis post last night, I love when MMA fighters have truly bizarre responses to defeat.

If you put a gun to my head, I would not be able to recall a single detail about the first Tybura vs. Spivac fight … and I know I watched it. There’s a chance I even wrote about it!

Denis Puric and Rodtang beat the snot out of each other then hung out afterwards. Good stuff!

If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid … but I don’t think this worked.

Kick with good form or else!

The history behind the worst sound I’ve heard in recent memory (respectfully).

Poirier’s daughter knows the value of gratitude!

Slips, rips, and KO clips

Both men threw left hooks, but one was tighter …

Shocking news: Makwan Amirkhani got tired late in a fight, and it didn’t end well.

Three straight accurate and powerful connections shut off the lights:

Random Land

I think this is so cool.

Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 2011

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

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Jon Jones is giving advice to Dominick Reyes: Accept defeat and move on with your life.

In 2020, Jones defeated Reyes via controversial decision to retain his — at the time — light heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 247. It remains one of the most heavily debated results in UFC championship history, as many believed Reyes did enough to defeat Jones on that night in Houston. Four years later, Reyes still believes he was the rightful winner, which he explained on The MMA Hour following his UFC Louisville win against Dustin Jacoby.

“Forever, he’ll also be known that he lost to me,” Reyes said. “Maybe we can figure that out one day. It’s not a belief, it’s a fact [that I beat him]. That’s the difference.”

On Tuesday, Jones took exception to that, and issued his retort on Twitter.

“What a claim to fame, almost beat [Jon] Jones,” Jones said. “Got full of myself and literally couldn’t win another fight.”

After responding to a fan that let him know that Reyes defeated Jacoby at UFC Louisville, Jones responded by saying he didn’t watch the bout, and called it a “nice surprise.” Then, the current UFC heavyweight champion issued some advice to the last man he defended his 205-pound championship against before vacating and moving up.

“[Dominick], when you look back at our fight, I don’t want you to ever question me or those judges,” Jones stated. “Look at your own heart, your own endurance, you didn’t do enough. The sooner you accept that, the better athlete you’ll become.”

Jones hasn’t competed since March 2023, when he submitted Ciryl Gane to win the vacant heavyweight title at UFC 285.

Reyes’ win against Jacoby was his first in 1,695 days. His most recent win before that was a knockout of former middleweight champion Chris Weidman at UFC Boston in October 2019.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Chael Sonnen was having a good ol’ time at the open workouts for his upcoming exhibition boxing match against Anderson Silva.

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Alexa Grasso isn’t playing around with her fight picks.

This week on The Ultimate Fighter 32, the UFC flyweight champion evens the score at 1-1 in her coaching matchup with rival Valentina Shevchenko, and does so handily. With her first fight selection of the season, Grasso sends out her top middleweight pick Robert Valentin (10-3) to face Shevchenko’s last pick Giannis Bachar (9-2), and the result is as expected.

Valentin, who has previously trained with Shevchenko at Tiger Muay Thai in Thailand, needs less than 30 seconds to connect with a counter elbow to Bachar’s head that causes the Greek fighter to crumble to the canvas. A few follow-up strikes follow, but the fight is essentially over as soon as Valentin’s elbow connects.

With the win, the 28-year-old Valentin becomes the first middleweight semifinalist of the season.

Episode 2 actually starts with a little drama as the originally scheduled middleweight matchup between Team Grasso’s Omran Chaaban and Team Shevchenko’s Shamidkhan Magomedov has to be postponed due to Chaaban having an infectious cold sore.

Though Shevchenko lost, her team continues to praise her for her limitless work ethic and for pushing them in training, which they compare to being in “boot camp.” Bachar jokes that the team should go to UFC CEO Dana White to protest Shevchenko’s intense training sessions.

Next week, featherweights are back in action as Team Grasso’s No. 2 pick Kaan Olfi fights Team Shevchenko’s No. 3 pick Nathan Fletcher.

The Ultimate Fighter 32 airs live every Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+.

Following the season finale, Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko are expected to face off in a flyweight championship trilogy bout at a date still to be determined.

The finalists of the TUF 32 middleweight and featherweight tournaments will also compete for a six-figure UFC contract at the show’s live finale. A date for that event is also yet to be announced.

Here are the TUF 32 rosters divided by team:

Team Grasso

Featherweights

1. Guillermo Torres (Mexico) (7-1)
2. Kaan Ofli (Australia) (10-2-1)
3. Bekhzod Usmonov (Tajikistan) (11-4)
4. Mairon Santos (Brazil) (13-1)

Middleweights

1. Robert Valentin (Switzerland) (10-3)
2. Paddy McCorry (Ireland) (4-1)
3. Omran Chaaban (Finland) (6-1)
4. Tom Theocharis (Canada) (9-5)

Team Shevchenko

Featherweights

1. Roedie Roets (South Africa) (7-1)
2. Zygimantas Ramaska (Lithuania) (9-2)
3. Nathan Fletcher (England) (8-1)
4. Edwin Cooper Jr. (USA) (6-1)

Middleweights

1. Shamidkhan Magomedov (Russia) (7-1)
2. Mark Hulme (South Africa) (12-3)
3. Ryan Loder (USA) (6-1)
4. Giannis Bachar (Greece) (9-2)

Here are the quarterfinal results so far:

Roedie Roets def. Guillermo Torres via decision

Robert Valentin def. Giannis Bachar via KO (strikes) (R1)

Advancing to semifinals: Roets, Valentin

Eliminated: Torres, Bachar

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