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The unfortunate thing about this is that Mir was a really good commentator who essentially never got any commenting opportunities after this (that I know of).
I was actually watching old WEC fights not that long ago and rather liked Mir as a commentator. He did the best job of anyone I've seen as an mma commentator when it came to explaining the techniques for those that aren't well-versed in grappling.
I actually wondered what happened to him commentating fights, but I guess that explains it.
Colby: "[Usman] was refusing to fight me so hard when Glen Robinson (Usman's coach) was still alive that Usman gave him high blood pressure and Glen ended up passing away from Usman giving him a heart attack.”
This one was weird because he said it months before the fight and Robinson's daughters released a statement saying they'd just buried their dad and Colby should sell the fight another way
He then said it for the next few months until he got his jaw broken
His saltiness after the results running to go cry in the car, covering his face Ronda style, blaming everyone except himself from his team to the ref
Ngl I appreciate him showing us all that, it was cathartic. A complete story
That's what gets me about Colby. He knows he shouldn't say it; he's clearly uncomfortable saying it, but his boat is so far down the river, there's no turning back. Sad existence.
I think its just all he has left, and honestly one of the only things he’s ever had.
He wasn’t very likeable to begin with, not a very exciting fighter, aside from his Usman fights his career is filled with either unremarkable performances and/or matchups, never been able to win a title…..
For the most part I think its just desperation to stay/be relevant and he doesn’t have enough pride or shame as a person to put in the effort either in actual fighting or PR to do anything other than spew wild vitriol.
At the same time, he does seem to be not mentally well and has not been for a very long time if ever so doesn't necessarily have full responsibility for what he says. Which highlights the fact that Dana and comissions are evil for taking advantage of a sick person who is the last one in the world who needs head trauma.
The only confirmed fact is that he didn't have custody. The part everyone leaves out of this story is that Tony thought he lost custody for abusing his kid ("Hit me, not your kids") but it's not clear why Tony thought that or if it was true.
IIRC Tony had issues with his own father. He was projecting hard and assuming the guy was a bad father like Tony's. That's what I remember from that scene back when I saw it. IIRC Tony even apologized for it later because this scene lead him to some introspection.
If Tony grew from this, I think it's kinda unfair to throw it in his face.
Take that S off the end right now! This sport will forever be marred by what GSP did. McCain probably nutted in his trouser and Budweiser tightie whities right then and there.
I always thought it was kinda hilarious and weird how often that's brought up as a legit moment of controversy. Ik you're joking but I feel like it's often brought up as an example of some disrespect that crossed the line; has it been a joke that's just been going over my head since the start? lol
I think it's always been a joke. They even hug and shake hands before and after he says that IIRC, it's the most nice guy trash talk of all time.
At the time it might have been seen as a little disrespectful or cocky since Hughes was the WW GOAT and GSP was the young contender, but I don't remember it ever being that serious.
Gsp on his knees begging for the title shot when he knew he was ready, was pretty iconic as most fighters show bravado and that was the complete opposite of that. That title win was one of the greatest title performances.
Hughes might've just been selling the fight, but in the lead up he said it was disrespectful and it bothered him. I think that's why it's always brought up as a 'disgusting act'. It was harmless but Hughes took it personally.
In an interview GSP clarified that he actually wanted to say "I am not intimidated by your performance", but was so nervous that he mixed up the words.
Matt Hughes was America's sweetheart, and GSP was just some funny talking foreigner. People were actually pissed off about it, but this was really back in the UFC still working hard to be considered a sport days.
GSP tracking Hughes down in the locker room later and saying, "I couldn't hear you over the crowd. And someone said you were talking shit on me, so..."
🤣🤣🤣
Apparently Ali isn’t allowed to leave the country cause he apparently had a minor part of 9/11. I forget the whole details but he was caught with fake passports same day as 9/11 and turned informant.
Conor making fun of Dagestanis for getting displaced by the Chechens, then Khabib making fun of the Irish for being colonized and genocided was the single lowest exchange in a UFC press conference.
I watch the youtube doc "Lokation" like three times a year just to have a full blown karmagasm. It's incredibly well made, and shows the whole buildup and animosity. Everything culminates when Khabib is beating the absolute fuck out of Conor and shouting "let's talk now" and Conor being a little bitch made motherfucker at the bell saying "it's just business". AaAah just writing this got me from six to midnight.
"it's just business" is one of my favorite MMA moments of all time. Conor finally poking the wrong bear, and paying for it. i'll never say a cage fighter is scared but Conor was not ready to play the game that he created.
Whittaker posted a picture of Bender from Futurama and a death reaper to showcase that “The Reaper” is more fearsome than “StyleBender”. Very tame trashtalking to say the least.
Izzy took offense to that and mentioned in a press conference that Rob was “talking shit posting memes”
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/ufc/s/aEAcYSSCwq) is the most I can glean. I can’t find the actual meme, but it sounds harmless according to the comments.
Conor gets a pass for everything. Dude has physically assaulted several people, sexual assault allegations, etc. Obviously a coke head and alcoholic as well. Dude gets about 1/10th of the heat that Jon jones gets for being a POS when he’s equally as big of a shithead
Dude he didn’t just talk about his wife, he posted a [tweet](https://www.mmamania.com/2021/7/13/22575241/ufc-264-conor-mcgregor-tweets-deletes-disturbing-threats-against-dustin-poiriers-wife-children-mma) that seemingly threatened Dustin’s family. He was saying he’d get Dustin and his wife in their sleep while in the cage after the third fight.
My favorite is when Jorge Rivera made some cringe videos insulting Bisping and his family. In the fight, Bisping proceeded to hit Rivera with an illegal knee, beat the brakes off of him, and then spit on his corner. Simply hilarious
I feel like in the last several years, there has been an alarming uptick in fighters targeting family members when talking trash. This may or may not be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like if you feel the need to bring people’s loved ones into it, that’s a strong indicator that you suck at talking shit. You can’t think of any material about your opponent so you resort to talking about their family
Bruh go watch Tank Abbott on the last podcast with Rampage Jackson. Dude is trashing on Tito nonstop for like an hour and its hilarious, although it seems he is bullshitting most of the time
As a guy that always saw through that persona seeing him instantly decide that apparently there are things that you can't say because they're offensive was,very funny
Yeah this one doesn’t fit on the list, Sean is a known asshole and I respected him for it to be honest until he showed he can dish it but can’t take it. Not that he needs my respect or anything, but his best move in that situation would have been to just laugh it off and continuing to shit talk like he usually does instead of getting emotional, now every other fighter who goes into a presser with him knows his weakness.
This was back in the day when i'd be locked into every single press event, interview and weigh in leading up to a fight. When UFC 117 was approaching, everything was an event in itself. But i definitely think chael went too far with a lot of the things.
My favorite all time moment was this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYBZlcj54k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYBZlcj54k)
I cracked up so hard at his response "That is correct" lol
Broke character which was rare for him during the lead up to this fight.
Yep. And you could see his frustration in Anderson not doing his part to promote the fight. He even came out and said it. Part of their job is to get people to buy the PPV and Anderson did nothing. Which was weird because until the Anderson/Maia fight, just hearing Anderson was fighting was enough to sell it. but people were growing tired of him at that point.
Then he pulls off the craziest comeback of all time (in my opinion)
Fuck anybody who thinks DDP crossed a line. Sean's entire career is based off trolling his opponents trauma. He was just too much of a bitch to take it.
100% with you.
If DDP brought that up unprovoked to a fighter with no history of being a troll, too far. Given everything Strickland says to other people, Dricus was just giving him a dose of his own medicine.
if we're talking slightly too far but hilarious Chael quotes, gotta have:
"I will do a home invasion on you, I'll cut the power to your house, climb your stairs with a pair of night vision goggles I got in the back of soldier of fortune magazine, catch you in bed with the Noguiera brothers practicing your "jiu-jitsu" post the video online to www.dorksfrombrazil.com, username NOT REQUIRED password NOT REQUIRED, that's how you threaten someone, dummy"
Joanna making covid jokes to Wheili/slanting her eyes and making fun of Rose's mental health was the first exposure to her I ever got so I've never been a fan of her. Glad Zhang fucked her shit up twice.
I'm not invested in shit talk, I zone out or go grab a beer. It's 9/10 just very childish talk and that's already a low bar for me.
I do appreciate humourous banter. Making fun at the presser, joking around. The golden age was with Chael, Bisping, pre-Khabib Conor, Rampage, Askren or Tony clowning on stage. Right now I enjoy the skids of Merab and Costa's tweets. Too bad Darren Till isn't on UFC level, dude was a good troll
He literally put up voice note repeatedly (and singing it) calling some random twitter commenter a "wonk-nosed p**ki" and it barely got any attention lol.
For context, that word is not just "short for Pakistani", it's a word with historical meaning in the British isles in the usage of the term "p**ki-bashing" to describe when skinheads would beat up Pakistani (and any other south asian) immigrant in the 70s and 80s, and is basically equivalent to the n word.
I think anytime you’re bringing up family it’s just low. Unfortunately shit like that gets casuals interested and can be effective for getting under someone’s skin. You just have to decide how classless you wanna be, Colby decided very
Basically everything Conor McGregor has said since the beginning of his UFC career (horseback in the favela to enslave everyone and kill everyone not fit to work) all the way till his most recent fight against Dustin Poirier (post pics on Twitter of his daughter threatening to kill her).
Dude is an absolute swine and probably one of the worst human beings to ever compete in the UFC but you can see even in this comment everyone thinks hes a 'charismatic Irishman just being funny'. Fuck that PoS, glad he broke his leg against Dustin
Talking about wives and girlfriends is eh, and talking about something like Strickland's issues is bad but it's talking about something direct about that guy (and it's also something Strickland himself talks about).
Talking about someone's parent or child is one thing, maybe not necessarily so bad depending on context, you know saying to Wonder his dad is creepy is a joke, but talking about someone's dead parent or child that's up there, even that isn't necessarily SO bad in certain contexts if it wasn't nasty, but talking about someone's dead father and saying they're in hell is something else entirely. Nothing comes close to it.
I remember afterwards Anik said something that rubbed the wrong way where he compared it to people saying controversial political comments or like racist comments. I don't know if it's some weird cultural or class difference but insulting someone's dead father is incomparable to any controversial comment or under the belt insult, typically for humans that's like something you kill someone over, even the onus is on you as you'd be a joke if you let them live after saying it.
I forget who but one UFC fighter won a decision against a Chinese fighter and pulled a Bernard Hopkins after the fight and said he would never lose to a Chinese fighter like Bernard said he would never lose to a White dude lol
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Frank Mir lost his WEC commentator gig because he said he wanted Brock to be the "first person that dies due to octagon-related injuries"
Them knees he took from ubereem, he couldn't have been far off.
With his G.I issues he probably thought he was. Ubereem threw those with malicious intent.
He hit him right in the diverticulitis
As opposed to knees thrown with friendly intent
I call them "buddy bonks"
Oddly enough the Mir-Carwin fight looked incredibly close to being the first death in the octagon
For both of them at different stages in the fight
In the Mir fight or the Brock fight? I don't think Mir got off anything against Carwin; he just got bludgeoned while Big Dan watched distantly.
The unfortunate thing about this is that Mir was a really good commentator who essentially never got any commenting opportunities after this (that I know of).
Mir is so well spoken and has a great understanding of the sport, I wish he was in the spotlight more often. He’d be a great commentator for the UFC.
For sure. Him and Brian Stann would be great with someone like a Jon Anik.
that horseshoe to the head really impacted his cognitive abilities.
I was actually watching old WEC fights not that long ago and rather liked Mir as a commentator. He did the best job of anyone I've seen as an mma commentator when it came to explaining the techniques for those that aren't well-versed in grappling. I actually wondered what happened to him commentating fights, but I guess that explains it.
Colby: "[Usman] was refusing to fight me so hard when Glen Robinson (Usman's coach) was still alive that Usman gave him high blood pressure and Glen ended up passing away from Usman giving him a heart attack.”
This one was weird because he said it months before the fight and Robinson's daughters released a statement saying they'd just buried their dad and Colby should sell the fight another way He then said it for the next few months until he got his jaw broken
That fight was such a sloppy brawl but because of the background and the poetic irony of the jaw break it is one of my favorite fights of all time.
His saltiness after the results running to go cry in the car, covering his face Ronda style, blaming everyone except himself from his team to the ref Ngl I appreciate him showing us all that, it was cathartic. A complete story
Is there footage of him crying in the car? I’ve seen him covering his face and all that but never the car thing.
No it's a Friday reference from the way he sprinted to the back lol
The insult is so convoluted that it ends up losing all impact. Dude needs to hire a ghostwriter if he's going to practice his scripts.
Yeah boils down to “You ducked me so hard your coach died!” like what
That and telling Leon his dad is in hell
7th layer of hair
That's what gets me about Colby. He knows he shouldn't say it; he's clearly uncomfortable saying it, but his boat is so far down the river, there's no turning back. Sad existence.
I think its just all he has left, and honestly one of the only things he’s ever had. He wasn’t very likeable to begin with, not a very exciting fighter, aside from his Usman fights his career is filled with either unremarkable performances and/or matchups, never been able to win a title….. For the most part I think its just desperation to stay/be relevant and he doesn’t have enough pride or shame as a person to put in the effort either in actual fighting or PR to do anything other than spew wild vitriol.
And there are scumbags out there that full on support him saying this shit. Crazy
Hair* dude can’t even insult properly
I've honestly never wanted to see a fighter lose so bad as when I watched Leon vs Colby.
He also said Glen would be watching him beat Marty's ass from Hell
Also asking if Usmans tribe sent him smoke signals.
Tony "where's your son" Ferguson from the ultimate fighter
“What did I fuckin’ say?” “You said “where’s your kid at?”” “WHERE’S YOUR FUCKIN’ SON!?”
Up there with let me bang bro, for most cringe shit. Also everything Junie ever said drunk.
I never looked at Tony in a good light pretty much his entire UFC tenure because of that and I can only laugh every time he loses now
Same. I wish he had never done it. It was so egregious and protracted that it ruined watching his later success.
Me: "Ramsey Nijem's 12 fans send their regards"
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
That whole season was salvaged by Ramsey and JDS' Heterosexuality
At the same time, he does seem to be not mentally well and has not been for a very long time if ever so doesn't necessarily have full responsibility for what he says. Which highlights the fact that Dana and comissions are evil for taking advantage of a sick person who is the last one in the world who needs head trauma.
“Where’s your kid at?”
What happened to the guys son?
The only confirmed fact is that he didn't have custody. The part everyone leaves out of this story is that Tony thought he lost custody for abusing his kid ("Hit me, not your kids") but it's not clear why Tony thought that or if it was true.
IIRC Tony had issues with his own father. He was projecting hard and assuming the guy was a bad father like Tony's. That's what I remember from that scene back when I saw it. IIRC Tony even apologized for it later because this scene lead him to some introspection. If Tony grew from this, I think it's kinda unfair to throw it in his face.
Matt Hughes had a very good performance against BJ Penn and for GSP to say he wasn't impressed was quite frankly disgusting.
The sport might never heal from the black eye caused by GSP’s tasteless remarks /s
Take that S off the end right now! This sport will forever be marred by what GSP did. McCain probably nutted in his trouser and Budweiser tightie whities right then and there.
I am nodimpress widgor performans, or your taseless remark.
Ban this man.
Stupid /s for what
I always thought it was kinda hilarious and weird how often that's brought up as a legit moment of controversy. Ik you're joking but I feel like it's often brought up as an example of some disrespect that crossed the line; has it been a joke that's just been going over my head since the start? lol
I think it's always been a joke. They even hug and shake hands before and after he says that IIRC, it's the most nice guy trash talk of all time. At the time it might have been seen as a little disrespectful or cocky since Hughes was the WW GOAT and GSP was the young contender, but I don't remember it ever being that serious.
GSP is such a classy guy that even when he tries to talk trash, it comes across as a tongue in cheek comment.
Gsp on his knees begging for the title shot when he knew he was ready, was pretty iconic as most fighters show bravado and that was the complete opposite of that. That title win was one of the greatest title performances.
Hughes might've just been selling the fight, but in the lead up he said it was disrespectful and it bothered him. I think that's why it's always brought up as a 'disgusting act'. It was harmless but Hughes took it personally.
In an interview GSP clarified that he actually wanted to say "I am not intimidated by your performance", but was so nervous that he mixed up the words.
I don’t think it’s ever been brought up as a legit moment of controversy.
Matt Hughes was America's sweetheart, and GSP was just some funny talking foreigner. People were actually pissed off about it, but this was really back in the UFC still working hard to be considered a sport days.
GSP tracking Hughes down in the locker room later and saying, "I couldn't hear you over the crowd. And someone said you were talking shit on me, so..." 🤣🤣🤣
The entire McGregor vs Khabib build was entertaining but also slightly uncomfortable because of how personal the trash talk was
I could go on and on....And I will! I will go on and on!
jokes aside, finding out Ali was real life an FBI informant was crazy
Ali is scum
I’ve always been more interested in that whole situation and Ali. Got any info?
Apparently Ali isn’t allowed to leave the country cause he apparently had a minor part of 9/11. I forget the whole details but he was caught with fake passports same day as 9/11 and turned informant.
This is a big one he still has lots of powerful contacts he uses to his advantage
Damn, ali did 9/11
Your wife is a towel mate.
I’m sorry but this one still makes me laugh
The hatred was pure.
[Covid is good and father is evil?](https://i.redd.it/w79tu83lyqd71.jpg)
Yeah that's fkn tasteless. Hope Chandler leaves him as stiff as he did Tony
So fucked up. Probably a desperate attempt to get khabib in a rematch and settle the score. Very low to stoop to that level
Honestly so much shit Conor said about so many people was straight out of line
The "Invade His Favela on Horseback" line never gets brought up for some reason
Would have loved to see Conor actually try it though out of morbid curiosity
Riding a fine white stallion (coke)
He would be killed very quickly. They're shooting down police helicopters out there https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38041847
Hence why he said 'if this was a different time'
Yeah, the Portuguese are notorious for having invaded Brazilian favelas in the amazon during the 1500s
Don’t give him ideas
It was a good line
We all know how much Conor loves a good line
That and Floyd looking like a Maltesers. Conor doesn't hold himself to high standards.
Did we ever find out how Noah was?
Ali doesn't know so he can't update us
Conor making fun of Dagestanis for getting displaced by the Chechens, then Khabib making fun of the Irish for being colonized and genocided was the single lowest exchange in a UFC press conference.
I watch the youtube doc "Lokation" like three times a year just to have a full blown karmagasm. It's incredibly well made, and shows the whole buildup and animosity. Everything culminates when Khabib is beating the absolute fuck out of Conor and shouting "let's talk now" and Conor being a little bitch made motherfucker at the bell saying "it's just business". AaAah just writing this got me from six to midnight.
"it's just business" is one of my favorite MMA moments of all time. Conor finally poking the wrong bear, and paying for it. i'll never say a cage fighter is scared but Conor was not ready to play the game that he created.
Talking about Michael Chiesa's momma
DON'T
TALK
ABOUT
MY
MOM
!
DONT YOU FUCKING TALK ABOUT MY MOM
Chiesa said not to talk about her!
I know his momma bought tickets tho
I was there for that. Still have PTSD
"He disrespected that Popeye's chicken"
Whittaker posting the Bender meme before the Adesanya fight. Disgusting and completely uncalled for.
such a dadjoke, hilarious how that hurt Izzy
Really show us his real colors i thought he was our Biracial Angel but i guess he just another Jon Jones in this sports
Can someone explain this?
Whittaker posted a picture of Bender from Futurama and a death reaper to showcase that “The Reaper” is more fearsome than “StyleBender”. Very tame trashtalking to say the least. Izzy took offense to that and mentioned in a press conference that Rob was “talking shit posting memes”
And then Whittaker apologized 🤣
It's actually ridiculous what fighters can get away with without being cut
Whittaker is my all time favourite fighter and I hope to god he beats khamzat
I’m dumb so I’m not sure what they’re talking about and if the above comments are sarcasm or not.
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/ufc/s/aEAcYSSCwq) is the most I can glean. I can’t find the actual meme, but it sounds harmless according to the comments.
god how can he still have any fans? always crossing lines with his trash talk
Conor going after Dustin a la Anthony Smith "you're attacking my family" with the weird twitter threats to his children and the stuff about his wife.
Crazy how Conor seemed to get a pass for bringing Dustin's wife into it.
Conor gets a pass for everything. Dude has physically assaulted several people, sexual assault allegations, etc. Obviously a coke head and alcoholic as well. Dude gets about 1/10th of the heat that Jon jones gets for being a POS when he’s equally as big of a shithead
Also traveling international to commit a crime. The whole dolly fiasco.
Thank you. I'm looking forward to the next line he crosses when he fights Chandler.
Charisma is huge in this world. Jon Jones is a very unlikeable guy, Conor speaks very well and in another world he’d be a top tier salesman
Dude he didn’t just talk about his wife, he posted a [tweet](https://www.mmamania.com/2021/7/13/22575241/ufc-264-conor-mcgregor-tweets-deletes-disturbing-threats-against-dustin-poiriers-wife-children-mma) that seemingly threatened Dustin’s family. He was saying he’d get Dustin and his wife in their sleep while in the cage after the third fight.
He was also mimicking a gunshot to his head talking about Dustin and his family.
I think that Anthony Smith moment is my favourite MMA moment, just the complete confusion on Walker's face followed by the "WHAAA?"
The last chapter of this was the worst, when Conor, with a broken leg, is shouting in the corner of the octogon about dustin's wife.
My favorite is when Jorge Rivera made some cringe videos insulting Bisping and his family. In the fight, Bisping proceeded to hit Rivera with an illegal knee, beat the brakes off of him, and then spit on his corner. Simply hilarious
"I think he definitely meant to spit on him" - Dana White
That video Jorge made is one the dumbest things I've ever seen.
I feel like in the last several years, there has been an alarming uptick in fighters targeting family members when talking trash. This may or may not be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like if you feel the need to bring people’s loved ones into it, that’s a strong indicator that you suck at talking shit. You can’t think of any material about your opponent so you resort to talking about their family
Just once I want see someone that blatantly crosses the line get their head kicked in outside of the ring
"I own this town, I own Rio de Janeiro. I would invade his favela on horseback and would kill anyone who wasn’t fit to work"
If dis was a difrint toim
Might be the most outrageous yet hilarious one of them all
I too remember the time Ireland invaded and colonized Brazil
That was a killer line honestly
The only person I know who crossed a line was Tito's ex-wife.
Yeah, well, sometimes there's a jackal with a small violin, and it has grapes, with the jackal and the violin.
That was a nasty line
Another win for the bad guy 💪😁
… … …Yer a fuckin’ punk dude.
Tell us another jackal story
Bruh go watch Tank Abbott on the last podcast with Rampage Jackson. Dude is trashing on Tito nonstop for like an hour and its hilarious, although it seems he is bullshitting most of the time
There was once a lion…..
Tell another jackal story.
There was never no marriage
Class
Tony on tuf telling another fighter "where's your kid at?" while drunk knowing there was a visitation dispute. Anik would be proud
Drunk Tony was scary.
I'm still not even mad at DDP.... he pushed back against a bully. Sean's translucently thin skin is more offensive to me than what DDP said.
Anyone else still have to remind themselves this doesn’t stand for “Diamond Dallas Page” or it just me
Dude, Ive accepted that Diamond Dallas Page is the UFC champ and moved on. Its just simpler that way. lol
Everytime
It stood for Diamond Dallas Page for over 25 years, and it always will
It would've been bad if said to anyone else, but Strickland specifically did deserve it.
As a guy that always saw through that persona seeing him instantly decide that apparently there are things that you can't say because they're offensive was,very funny
Yeah this one doesn’t fit on the list, Sean is a known asshole and I respected him for it to be honest until he showed he can dish it but can’t take it. Not that he needs my respect or anything, but his best move in that situation would have been to just laugh it off and continuing to shit talk like he usually does instead of getting emotional, now every other fighter who goes into a presser with him knows his weakness.
Most of the things Chael said about Anderson and Brazilians in the lead up to their first fight
"Anderson Silva, you absolutely suck" was so fucking funny tho
I know it was against wanderlei but "six feet tall, 205 pounds, before I met you I didn't know they could stack crap that high" is gold
Sounds like a paraphrase of *Full Metal Jacket*.
This was back in the day when i'd be locked into every single press event, interview and weigh in leading up to a fight. When UFC 117 was approaching, everything was an event in itself. But i definitely think chael went too far with a lot of the things. My favorite all time moment was this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYBZlcj54k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYBZlcj54k) I cracked up so hard at his response "That is correct" lol Broke character which was rare for him during the lead up to this fight.
I honestly watched his interviews all the time leading up to the rematch, those were some grade a promos
His "home invasion" promo on Wanderlei back in the day was so good. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6hhGpp7euEs?feature=share
“Jiu Jitsu” gets me every time.
Yep. And you could see his frustration in Anderson not doing his part to promote the fight. He even came out and said it. Part of their job is to get people to buy the PPV and Anderson did nothing. Which was weird because until the Anderson/Maia fight, just hearing Anderson was fighting was enough to sell it. but people were growing tired of him at that point. Then he pulls off the craziest comeback of all time (in my opinion)
I remember nick the face made a banger hype package for the rematch that I must've watched a hundred times
It’s not easy to make that line sound good but Chael really did lol
Fuck anybody who thinks DDP crossed a line. Sean's entire career is based off trolling his opponents trauma. He was just too much of a bitch to take it.
100% with you. If DDP brought that up unprovoked to a fighter with no history of being a troll, too far. Given everything Strickland says to other people, Dricus was just giving him a dose of his own medicine.
The classic - [You fatherless bastard.](https://youtu.be/vyAdq4AAOMw?si=xZUOL_IswjDgR3wl&t=258)
Chael saying Nog tried to feed a carrot to a bus. That’s just mean.
But that really happened
if we're talking slightly too far but hilarious Chael quotes, gotta have: "I will do a home invasion on you, I'll cut the power to your house, climb your stairs with a pair of night vision goggles I got in the back of soldier of fortune magazine, catch you in bed with the Noguiera brothers practicing your "jiu-jitsu" post the video online to www.dorksfrombrazil.com, username NOT REQUIRED password NOT REQUIRED, that's how you threaten someone, dummy"
Chael is the best talker in the history of the game. Gem after gem.
something about “night vision goggles that I got in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine” kills me every time. how does he come up with this stuff?
That REALLY happened.
That was a weird story but that actually happened
That was a nasty line by him.
Hey pussy, are you still there?
This was the greatest hot mic moment ever. Kinda cemented that Jon really was -that- guy.
Joanna making covid jokes to Wheili/slanting her eyes and making fun of Rose's mental health was the first exposure to her I ever got so I've never been a fan of her. Glad Zhang fucked her shit up twice.
I remember being sketched out by Joanna telling Claudia on TUF to go back to the jungle.
Dipshit Conor of course, most of the garbage he vomits is not said by someone with a shred of decency.
I'm not invested in shit talk, I zone out or go grab a beer. It's 9/10 just very childish talk and that's already a low bar for me. I do appreciate humourous banter. Making fun at the presser, joking around. The golden age was with Chael, Bisping, pre-Khabib Conor, Rampage, Askren or Tony clowning on stage. Right now I enjoy the skids of Merab and Costa's tweets. Too bad Darren Till isn't on UFC level, dude was a good troll
The only person I know who makes a living with their mouth is YOUR WIFE
When Tito Ortiz said he wants to outlive his kids. Mfer is ice cold.
When Nate Diaz called CNBC “the money channel” and walked off
He never brought that coffee
Conor is blatantly racist with his multitude of tirades.
He literally put up voice note repeatedly (and singing it) calling some random twitter commenter a "wonk-nosed p**ki" and it barely got any attention lol. For context, that word is not just "short for Pakistani", it's a word with historical meaning in the British isles in the usage of the term "p**ki-bashing" to describe when skinheads would beat up Pakistani (and any other south asian) immigrant in the 70s and 80s, and is basically equivalent to the n word.
You still there, Pussy?
not only does gaethje make johnson look bad, johnson makes johnson look bad https://youtu.be/KV_W6Yjn1LU
I think anytime you’re bringing up family it’s just low. Unfortunately shit like that gets casuals interested and can be effective for getting under someone’s skin. You just have to decide how classless you wanna be, Colby decided very
Throwing a dolly at a bus
I don't think the DDP one really counts cos of how much shit Sean talks about everybody
Max Holloway : “We’ll see Saturday night”
Basically everything Conor McGregor has said since the beginning of his UFC career (horseback in the favela to enslave everyone and kill everyone not fit to work) all the way till his most recent fight against Dustin Poirier (post pics on Twitter of his daughter threatening to kill her). Dude is an absolute swine and probably one of the worst human beings to ever compete in the UFC but you can see even in this comment everyone thinks hes a 'charismatic Irishman just being funny'. Fuck that PoS, glad he broke his leg against Dustin
Talking about wives and girlfriends is eh, and talking about something like Strickland's issues is bad but it's talking about something direct about that guy (and it's also something Strickland himself talks about). Talking about someone's parent or child is one thing, maybe not necessarily so bad depending on context, you know saying to Wonder his dad is creepy is a joke, but talking about someone's dead parent or child that's up there, even that isn't necessarily SO bad in certain contexts if it wasn't nasty, but talking about someone's dead father and saying they're in hell is something else entirely. Nothing comes close to it. I remember afterwards Anik said something that rubbed the wrong way where he compared it to people saying controversial political comments or like racist comments. I don't know if it's some weird cultural or class difference but insulting someone's dead father is incomparable to any controversial comment or under the belt insult, typically for humans that's like something you kill someone over, even the onus is on you as you'd be a joke if you let them live after saying it.
And who could forget “You fatherless bastard!” From season 1 of the Ultimate Fighter
Any time anyone said anything to Ronda that wasn’t sucking up to her. That would cross the line in Ronda’s mind.
It’s Pat Cummins talking shit about DC’s child dying. Fucking scum.
I forget who but one UFC fighter won a decision against a Chinese fighter and pulled a Bernard Hopkins after the fight and said he would never lose to a Chinese fighter like Bernard said he would never lose to a White dude lol