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Many of their fans were in an uproar when Michael Chandler posted his reply to Conor McGregor, for sure all McGregor defenders will show themselves sure the trash talks will still continue speaking of this fight I thought that it was the UFC 300 but after this announcement, it is clear that it was not the UFC 300 but another event on June, it was a long wait so fight fans are just boiling with frustration but some are just thankful that Conor McGregor is back, but likely I am OK with this but this is real and official and there is no USADA anymore and the UFC will be the ones who's going to cook their drug testing now so for sure they will let McGregor fight this June, but for sure there will be controversies when that happen as USADA will not keep quiet about the results they have with McGregor,

The Fight was official and it is on Tapology this is the link and the Screenshot,


https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/109011-ufc


I agree all that muscle is nothing if the content is just air or fake, but I really don't mean something with that gaining power in a short period of time can be very deceiving, and for sure many are deceiving themselves in thinking they can do it, but let's wait Conor McGregor looks slower I really like his slim physique than looking at this abomination, but if Chandler is OK with this then the fight will surely continue,

This is Conor McGregor comeback at International Fight Week and it might be good fight but there is also the possibility that it will be the first fight that makes him feel difficult, he has gained quite lot of weight and he looks stronger.
But all this does not necessarily mean that Conor McGregor will be able to fight well in class he has never competed in.
Many people will think that this fight will be like repeating the past and those Conor fans still think that he is capable of winning the fight.
Personally, I still doubt whether Conor will be able to beat Michael Chandler and become one of the members of the UFC who is truly considered the best fighter and UFC legend.
Indeed, he is fighter who can be the subject of attention and conversation and there will always be sensational news about Conor.

UFC 300 is in April, so apparently he won't be fighting then. I'm not even sure if he's back in the testing pool of whatever they replaced USADA with.
The fact they'll be fighting in the middleweight made me doubt if that tweet was serious, half-serious, or pure trolling, but media are already reporting on that and Chandler responded on X with:

https://twitter.com/MikeChandlerMMA/status/1741523866810229221

Followed by:
https://twitter.com/MikeChandlerMMA/status/1741544149227049413

None of them fought in that weight class before so not sure what to make of that. I don't think Conor would have any problems cutting down to 170, so he probably thinks this would slow Chandler down or give him some other form of advantage. But I can't imagine any of them to actually carry on in the middleweight past that fight, they would have too much of a height and reach disadvantage.

This is the only thing he can do right now and for sure he will likely do great Alex Pereira needs to fight maybe next year 4 to 5 fights if he can get the quickest fight possible then it will be good for him and his career as this will surely skyrocket him to what he wants to attain, if he wants a double or triple belt then I think that Dana White is letting Alex Pereira do this kind of things, for sure Alex Pereira can do it this year,


For me Ilia Topuria is a technical fighter, you can say that Alexander Volkanovski might have some doubts about him while he is fighting Topuria for me this is a very close fight as both fighters are very technical but for me, Ilia Topuria has the size and reach advantage for sure but because Volkanovski is known to move his head and goes inward the shots he can counter Ilia Topuria for sure, and both fighters also are accommodated with wrestling so both are very well-balanced, but I still don't know if who am I going to make my bet but I am leaning to Ilia Topuria even more,

https://x.com/thenotoriousmma/status/1741511352047337929?s=46&t=UAGUri9ZzHA2QTAen-RYSw

June 29 in Las Vegas against Chandler at 185lb. That is a middleweight, that is +2 divisions jump. Was it a just a joke?  UFC is in april. 185 - that was never a weight of Conor. He was best in feather and welterweight. Lightweight was the moment when his career went down. Going +2 more division. Not a best decision. Looks more like a joke to me.

Topuria looks really good. He's great on the ground (dominated and submitted Bryce Mitchell) and even better in striking (outstroke Josh Emmett). I favour him to win against Volk, but it won't be an easy fight. He hasn't been properly tested yet against the top fighters, but just from the level of dominance and the fact that he finished all of his previous opponents, except for Emmett, tells a lot. He's the real deal.
Everyone and their dog call out McGregor, as he's seen as an easy target with a huge payout, but the chances that Topuria would get that fight are close to zero. There's no reason for the UFC to match them up.

Guys, what do you think about Ilia Topuria? This guy fights against Volkanovski in February 17, 2024. It will definitely be a great match, Volk is an amazing fighter, one of the greatest probably but so is Topuria too, this guy doesn't have any lose and seems to be a very tough opponent but that's not everything and that's not the main reason why I am reminding you him. As it seems, he wants to fight Conor Mcgregor in 2024. Just imagine, if Topuria beats Volkanovski, he will be praised on another level but if Conor agrees fight with him, he will be an easy way for Topuria to gain money and fame.
I believe that 2024 will be a very interesting year in UFC.

He'll be 37 next year, so his goal is likely to squeeze as much as he can from the next 2-3 years before retiring. I don't think he cares too much about the titles, he would probably prefer big-money fights so he and his family can be financially secure.
Your prediction makes a lot of sense, provided making weight for the middleweight is not too much of a strain on his health. If Jon Jones was to announce his retirement after the next 1 or 2 fights, there would not be much going on in the heavyweight, so I can easily imagine UFC wanting Alex to move up.


Finally.
I'm not sure if it'll be UFC 300 but there's no way it will be anyone other than Chandler, he patiently waited long for that fight so I don't think UFC would screw him over.

Btw, he said that he will announce fight date and opponent. He did not mention that would be ufc. He aswell might be starting to fight alcohol from April 1. Start his election campaign and fight for more human rights. He recently got black belt in bjj. He might take a part in some bjj tournament aswell. There is so much to speculate about it. But I will trust only what Dana would say. We have already saw him planning to fight Chandler

For now, the Credibility of Colby Covington has dwindled into nothingness, right now Donald Trump doesn't want to be affiliated with Covington anymore, and because he is now a bad example he can be a threat to Donald Trump's success in the next election, but I don't know if Donald Trump will get to watch UFC again, or not for this let's just wait, what may happen,

Right now a Colby Covington VS Stephen Thompson might be the best option for both fighters and because they both lose to their opponent this is quite not great for both fighters, but this is just their best option,


Oh! yes, we might get a changed fighter if that fighter got injured or something or pulled back from the fight, we can really never say for sure because the fight is next year and there are still a couple of months for us to really see the outcome,

Rizin 45 is on December 31, for sure it is a much greater event than the power slap in my opinion, and how I think the UFC does have an event for the end of the year, a a year-end fight will be great instead of making us wait for too long,

Will this be confirmed by ufc or he announce his wish for an opponent? i think uncle Dana wont support such initiative from McGregor, as the boss must make such announcement, but Conor is running in front of locomotion. Anyway, he can announce anything he wants (he has announced lots of things previously), but I will trust more what Dana would say.

Conor McGregor tweeted a couple of hours ago that he will be announcing his next opponent and fight date on New Years Day. Won’t be long now until we find out who and when he’ll be fighting next. I suspect it’ll be UFC 300 and it will be broadcast on the Vegas Sphere, but we’ll have to wait and see. Link to tweet posted below.

https://x.com/thenotoriousmma/status/1741033599510667650

For sure Holly Holm's return to the UFC is not really a good choice for her if his fighting style is still the same and if she can not adjust and have decent wrestling then she can never win against wrestlers and if she doesn't have some decent defense against an opponent that has excellent wrestling she can never get the belt and against Mayra Bueno Silva at first Mayra Bueno Silva won the fight but the result was overturned to No Contest by Nevada State Athletic Commission because Bueno Silva was Positive on her Drug Test


I am 30+ hehe and I haven't played any UFC games so far, but if I can get a version on my PC maybe I will look at the recent trailer for the new UFC game it looks smooth and real just look at the shot on Jon Jones and even the sweat was really everywhere it looks pretty much solid, is it unreal gaming because it looks crisp, for sure gamer would love to play this, and I think playing as their favorite MMA fighter,



My prediction for Alex Pereira I think he will be back in the Middleweight division to get the belt from Sean Strickland or Dricus du Plessis, whoever wins the fight, and after defending the belt from the Light Heavyweight sure he will do this, then he can also go on another division may be the heavyweight and could even go even bulkier than Jon Jones, and getting a triple belt in the UFC he can surely done it,

They also fought once already in 2022 and Pereira knocked Strickland out in the 1st round. A rematch could be interesting and becoming a double-champ would be a great achievement for Pereira, especially considering very few believed he would be successful in the UFC. But that's assuming Strickland will defend the belt against Du Plessis, which is not so obvious.
Also, Alex was absolutely huge as a middleweight, so cutting the weight must've been really hard for him. Apparently it gets even harder with age, so he may simply be unable to do that again without taking a serious health risk.

A bit off-topic, yet still UFC related: I was wondering how old are you guys? No need to give specific answer, just 20+, 30+ and etc. The reason I ask - do you play video games? Have you ever tried UFC video game by EA Sports?

Just for Friday smile found you some decent stats:

Ah...  I remember that one as I had Holly Holm for the win at the top of my lottery ticket.    And it looks like the books have Bueno Silva as the slight favorite at 1.58 vs Pennington's 2.39.  Hmmm, so if Bueno Silva isn't juiced like she was vs Holm then she'll prolly be easier to take down?  And from optics, on the feet Bueno Silva seems more hittable than the average fighter.  Dunno...  Will have to see some stats and some tape of her past matches.  But all in all, it could be a spot to take the underdog in Pennington.  I ssink!  Don't quote me on that.  

Anyway...  Just a couple more weeks guys.  The next one is a decent event to start the year.

Yup! It is hard to say if the fighters would change or not as the event is still too far ahead, and there could be injuries along the way as the date progresses well we will be having an event next 2 weeks so yeah available event for us was the power slap and I think Rizin 45 will be on December 31, it will be a Flyweight fight between Kyoji Horiguchi VS Makoto Shinryu so this coming end of the year I will be watching this event for sure because we don't have any UFC event this week,


For sure now that Alex Pereira has gotten the belt in the Light Heavyweight for sure he will be going back to get the Middleweight and have a fight against Sean Strickland as Alex Pereira is one of the sparring partners that Sean Strickland has, and for this event, I think he will definitely going for the Middleweight next after he becomes Champion for the Light Heavyweight for sure he will do what Israel Adesanya have not done,


For sure Colby Covington is long gone, as he clearly doesn't have his recent touch I really don't trust him with a fight, and with the Leon Edwards fight he didn't convince me to bet for him clearly it is obvious that he is making the audience get into him but he didn't get their sympathy for sure, as clearly, Colby Covington is just for hype and not with his performance he is good at that kind of thing,

And if the fight really happened then what made the match interesting to watch. To be honest, I was disappointed with the appearance and role played by Colby at this time. It means that Colby who used to be really cool because it was really able to kill his opponents whatever their ranking. That's why he used to be nicknamed Chaos. But what happened right now made me think that the Colby era was over and he seemed to try to restore his lost prestige.

I think somewhere in November I have posted that fighters and we should not be that instantly happy about 50k reward from UFC, as they did not get it straight after a fight. I though that they get paid straight after the fight, as UFC get their money from PPV, selling translation on TV, commercial and etc immediately. But fighters get paid after USADA check as minimum. (maybe there are some other tests also, dont know).

Btw, a reminder to everyone that in 3 days, UFC and USADA parts. Whos gonna perform fighters testing next year - this is going to be first thing to announce from Dana, as their next and first in 2025 event will be on January 14.

It's true that Conor was at right place at right time with right style. But there is a huge difference between Conor and other trash talkers. Conor was very natural, you couldn't think that he was acting while others are very fake when they try trash talk and they all try to copy Conor and that's very visible. Conor himself wasn't very unique, he was copying some other people but he was doing it in a way that he was looking and sounding very unique. Also, to my mind, Conor's accent played a significant role into making him popular. His accent is very unique, bad but entertaining at the same time, very memorable too.

I think Conor's trashtalk didn't lose interest after his defeat against Nate Diaz, he was still doing good trash talk. If there was a moment when all of these was annoying, it was when he had a fight against Jose Aldo. Conor farted in front of his face, he did many disgusting things that were out of control. I can't believe Aldo didn't kill him behind the scenes after the fight.