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Roastmaster Jeff Ross took the time to hit White with some jokes during the Roast of Tom Brady, and Sean O’Malley got caught in the crossfire.

The Roast of Tom Brady just aired live on Netflix tonight (Sun. May 5th, 2024) and everyone involved took the gloves completely off to wreck the retired Patriots quarterback. It didn’t take long for “TB12” to realize he’d made a terrible mistake agreeing to this. Half the fun involved seeing him squirm in the seat of ‘honor’ as comedians brought up every scandal and embarrassing moment across 20+ years in the spotlight.

Brady wasn’t the only one who was targeted. Roastmaster Jeff Ross got some shots in at UFC CEO Dana White, who was in attendance with Max Holloway and Sean O’Malley. Ross was clearly unfamiliar with “Suga” and his swag.

“What’s up, Dana! Look at this, talk about a legend in the room,” Ross said. “Pull back, I want to show he brought the whole cast of Queer Eye. Dana, who are these guys? Are these guys, are they neutered? What the f— is going on here. The sign said no pets, Dana.”

“I love you Dana,” he continued. “You’re like Michael Vick but with human beings.”

That was probably one of the classier jokes from the evening.

White also got to show off some of his stand up chops:

Give that man his show money and escort his family out of the building!

Andrew Schultz also got a shot in at the Baldfather.

Take a look at some of the other highlights (or lowlights) from the event. We’ll keep you updated on when Tom Brady is released from the burn ward after all that next-level roasting he just endured.

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Alexandre Pantoja is happy not just with his win, but with the state of the UFC flyweight division.

Saturday evening at the Farmasi Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Pantoja defended his UFC flyweight title for the second time, winning a unanimous decision over Steve Erceg in the main event of UFC 301. Though Erceg was somewhat unheralded as only the No. 10 ranked flyweight in the UFC, “Astroboy” gave a good accounting of himself, winning two rounds on two of the judges’ scorecards and giving Pantoja one of his most difficult fights in recent years. And that’s something the flyweight champion was expecting.

“I think I clearly won the first three rounds of the fight,” Pantoja said through a translator at his UFC 301 post fight media scrum. “The fourth round could of been his. The fifth round was mine, so I definitely think it was 4-1. The guy was very tough. It was what we said. This is a guy from Australia, very tough, that people didn’t really know, and he came in there to die. He was prepared to die and I think that’s what it’s all about when you fight for the championship.”

With the win, Pantoja becomes only the second fighter in UFC history to win multiple flyweight title defenses, behind only Demetrious Johnson. Pantoja also became the first flyweight fighter to headline a UFC pay-per-view event since Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 256. That’s not bad for a division that not too long ago the UFC actively planned to get rid of. Plus, when you couple it with other recent headlining flyweight bouts like UFC Vegas 91 and UFC Mexico City, Pantoja believes that the 125-pound weight class is having a moment right now.

“I’ve always said this division is entirely tough,” Pantoja said. “You can take the 10th-ranked guy and fight against the champion, and you guys saw exactly that tonight. This division is all about work. You can’t move up in the rankings just by talking, and I’m really happy to see this. I think this was a watershed moment for the division. We’ve been having main events in Mexico, there was a main event last week between flyweights, so I’m very happy to see this moment.”

At the center of it all is Pantoja.

Though it took him a while to get there, the longtime UFC fighter finally claimed the flyweight title in 2023 and is now working on cementing himself as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport. But with three fights in less than a year, Pantoja wants to take a well-earned break before looking to add a third ruby to his UFC belt.

“I really want to see him against a top-five guy in this division,” Pantoja said of Erceg. “I want to see how he works out. I think he’s going to gain a lot of space in this division, but right now I’m not thinking about that. I don’t want to think about the gym or fighting, I want to think about the beach. … Maybe tomorrow that changes, but for now that’s it.”

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has begun his transformation into Mark Kerr.

Fresh off another blockbuster run with WWE, the 52-year-old superstar posted video Sunday of the first stages of his MMA training as he begins preparations to play Kerr in the upcoming biopic The Smashing Machine.

Watch footage of Johnson below.

Day 1.

MMA training camp.

Preparing for “Smashing Machine”

I’m learning daily and it’s been a very humbling, intense and motivating journey into this world of combat and becoming,

Mark Kerr – the two-time @UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion, World Vale Tudo Champion.

I’m a hard worker, but I realized that I’d have to work harder with this role than anything I’ve ever worked for in my life.

This physicality is just one part of the larger journey, that is truly a team effort.

Growing, and grateful.

Day 1.

Johnson is set to star in the upcoming film, which documents the rise and fall of two-time UFC heavyweight tournament winner and Pride FC veteran Kerr. Award-winning studio A24 is set to produce the film, with director Benny Safdie at the helm, who is best known for his work on Uncut Gems. Safdie also wrote the script for the film, which has been in development for several years and was first announced by Johnson in late 2019 ahead of UFC 244.

Golden Globe Award winner Emily Blunt has signed onto the feature to play Dawn Staples, Kerr’s wife.

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‘The Rock’ is serious about getting his role right as UFC and PRIDE FC veteran Mark Kerr, to the point where he’s entered an MMA training camp to learn the ropes of fighting.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is hard at work preparing for his starring role in the Mark Kerr biopic The Smashing Machine, and he’s just shared some footage from day one of his MMA training camp.

Mark Kerr was a NCAA Division I Wrestling champion who used his skillset to maul people in the early days of No Holds Barred fighting. He won back-to-back UFC heavyweight tournaments before moving on to Japan’s PRIDE FC, where his size and physicality made him a top name. But it all started to fall apart around 2000 due to mental and physical issues caused by Kerr’s steroid use.

This was all captured in the award-winning 2002 HBO documentary The Smashing Machine. Twenty years later, indie darling studio A24 is retelling the tale with “The Rock” starring as Kerr. To prepare for the role, Johnson is spending a lot of time in the ring working on the wrestling and ground & pound skills needed to realistically portray a cage fighter.

“I’m learning daily and it’s been a very humbling, intense and motivating journey into this world of combat and becoming Mark Kerr – the two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion, World Vale Tudo Champion,” Johnson wrote on Instagram. “I’m a hard worker, but I realized that I’d have to work harder with this role than anything I’ve ever worked for in my life.”

“This physicality is just one part of the larger journey, that is truly a team effort. Growing and grateful.”

The role comes at a time where Johnson’s reputation as a Hollywood golden boy is under attack. A scathing in-depth report on “The Rock” from The Wrap accused the WWE superstar of showing up several hours late to movie sets, costing his upcoming Christmas action film Red One an extra $ 50 million in production costs. There were also strange stories of how Dwayne would pee into bottles on set, leaving them for crew to clean up.

Johnson’s reps have denied these tales are true, but there’s ample evidence that “The Rock” is a difficult actor to wrangle schedule-wise — which could cause issues for the lower budget A24 production.

But hey, maybe he just didn’t give a crap about Fast X or Red One, while The Smashing Machine is clearly a passion project. For now Johnson is clearly locked into the role and working hard on making the best Smashing Machine he can. It will be hard for him to beat the 2002 version, but we look forward to seeing the end result regardless.

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