Ilia Tor is now saying he will not vacate his featherweight title despite saying he wants to move up to the lightweight division for his next fight on X Ilia posted this he WR I will not leave the title vacant the decision to move up to the next category is entirely mine I haven't had any conversations with the UFC yet so everything is still to be decided stop celebrating because I'm not going anywhere I have conquered my division and I will do the same in the next one it appears Dustin porier has a fight in the
works posted this to X earlier today he wrote There Will Be Blood see you soon bah Muhammad reacts to kobby Covington telling the MMA Guru that he's staying in a mansion in Tampa and not the fighter Hotel he says Kobe knows that he will get slapped bilow adds that Kobe sucks and hopes W Buckley breaks his jaw and knocks him out cold he says oh man yeah I I got a I'm living in a two2 million doll Mansion because I can't be at the hotel because these guys are I'm like because you're scared you're afraid
you can't show your face around any other Fighters because you'll get slapped so he right now as you seeing him in the in the media day trying to just say the most dumbest stuff right saying the trying to get any type of headline because he's a nobody nobody cares about him anymore um we realize that he he like I I've been saying it for years he sucks and I think that I'm hoping Buckley breaks his jaw I'm hoping that Buckley puts him out cold and I think Buckley can put him out cold Kobe striking is
terrible um his wrestling looked awful his last fight I think Buckley's athletic enough to defend those takedowns and if Buckley doesn't get crazy right if he doesn't get he he throws a lot of wide hooks that leaves opening for for shots underneath he just can't let Kobe push him to the fence he let can't let Kobe keep him on the fence and wear him down in his last fight against Wonderboy he was getting a little bit tired but I think that was more so because he was offensive wrestling Wonder Boy he was taking Wonder Boy
down Wonder Boy would get up he was trying to hold him down and you don't really need to hold Kobe down you don't need to shoot on Kobe because Kobe can't strike he can't there's nothing that he's going to be throwing at you that's going to be scary it's not going to hurt so just take all his punches stand there in the middle take one and then give him one and show him that there's levels to strike you I think that Buckley can't finish him knock him out um we've seen Kobe had his jaw broken
before by kamaro who who sucks with striking so I think Buckley who has way more power way better boxing can't put Kobe to sleep and I'm going with Buckley Cub Swanson fights Billy quarantillo at UFC Tampa tomorrow Cub says his Split Decision lost to Andre back in June hasn't sat right with him and he's motivated to get a win uh feels good I uh I didn't take any damage my last fight and so yeah I was like you know what I'm getting older I need to I need to speed these up and and start fighting
a little quicker you know I'm crazy busy that was that was kind of the goal is to be so busy that I couldn't fight anymore uh that was kind of my retirement is plan you know um and and I'm doing all those things so I'm on the right track back and uh like I said I I get to I put so much into the coaching that that these are like my fun my fun days the Mark is on my record it's there it's set in stone and uh you know that it motivated me to get
back in the gym and um and get ready for this one I needed one I was like it it was really didn't settle well with me um part of me a small part of me who's more of the the bigger human these days was happy for um fely because I know that he had been going through some hard stuff personally and and I'm cool with him you know so I I I thought that he did a good job of fighting hard in in the circumstances but me as a competitor was like oh man I shouldn't
have lost that fight I didn't sit well so that's what I was motivated to get in here for this one the burning sensation needed to you know needed to give me another fight give me a win before Christmas so I could spoil my kids and be happy Henry cejudo discusses moving back down to flyweight and fighting Alexandre Pantoja for the belt Henry is confident that he can make the weight but says it's all up to Hunter Campbell in all seriousness Harry in all seriousness he's giving you a title shot right now no know for sure
but I think this was lo I don't I'm not if if this is recent like if pia wants to do it I think it'd be really good the only guys that I've lost to kamaru I've only lost nothing but Champions I lost to alge St split decision and then I lost to the current champ and barad devv were at least W around with the T growing so I I'd love to I'd love to set Mass he's offering you a title shot here can you get down to 25 and get the title shot I will I
will if pja wants to do this fight I can shake on it but like as I told you before uh kamaru it's up to Hunter man if Hunter wants to give me the opportunity I've asked him for that I've asked him about to go down to 25 I just don't know if these guys are super serious about me actually do with it but if they believe me and trust me we're able to get the ucpi and if pia wants to do it if he wants to do it in Brazil I would love to make a
bad the KNE and I love the dude and he's the most kind of soul and I love him to death and I'm glad he's Champion but for that Championship out pantos you you will bet the need to keep Triple C Adrien yanz had a rough year in 2023 in April he was TKO by Rob font in the first round then in October he was TKO by Jonathan Martinez in the second round adri bounced back with a TKO win of his own over venicius Salvador this past May however he says that wasn't enough for him he
says he plans to beat Daniel maros tomorrow at UFC Tampa and prove that he belongs in the top 15 at Bantam way yeah for for me I kind of went off of off the road a little bit in my 2023 and that that fight right there put my tires back on the road so for me it's like all right cool tires on the road now it's time for me to start accelerating start going moving forward so uh it was a big win but I was not satisfied with with it I I wanted to get continue
to stay active and continue to keep fighting cuz I know how good I am and I know like where I belong and I need I just had to get fights to prove it so that's why I want really wanted to stay active I wanted to go out there and keep proving that I deserve to be in the top 15 so with the win over Daniel man that puts me right there I I wouldn't even necessarily like wasn't even like a big relief it's I still like am pretty harsh on myself with how 2023 went like
I still think about it because like that kind of shaped me into who I am like for this year that was like my motivator and my fuel for this year and I kind of been on a like like a vendetta for myself like n like it even though like that fight was what it was like i' still think about 2023 and like those two losses back to back you know uh kind of sit had to sit down and confront it you know with having surgery after that uh Martinez fight so I was like uh really
had to sit down and think about it so stays it's kind of stays there and it's just like it's what's pushing me to get better and like make sure that I don't get comfortable CH sunnen believes Shawn Strickland will fight better in his upcoming rematch with dr's dupy at UFC 312 cha thinks that Shawn didn't care about the belt when he had it however losing it made him care a lot more on good guy bad guy CH said if there has ever been a guy that turns out to be one heck of a lot better
than I knew he was it's drus dupy the other side of that coin Shan Strickland has talked himself up very much and has a high level of confidence because he believes he beat him that first time he believes he dominated him that's not what I saw as a matter of fact I'm not sure Shawn didn't lose all five rounds on my scorecard very close real tight but at the end of it if you got to go a 10-9 I'm not sure I didn't give them all to drus the only reason I'm saying this is I
don't want Shawn to necessarily fall for what he is believing I want him to study this guy I want him to have a different game plan for this guy I want him to take drus serious I do believe Shan Strickland when he was the champion of the world did not care or at least that's what he was saying the moment he lost that belt boy that care meter went through the roof and I do believe that sea is going to fight better trying to regain something than to defend something that's my own belief but that's
the fight to make winner draws in Hamza chamay I Can Drink To That Michael Johnson fights Atman a zitar tomorrow at UFC Tampa ahead of the fight he says he wants to prove to himself that he can get back to the top of the lightweight division um the big theme of the camp is focus you know concentration definitely got to stay in the zone um don't let any outside things distract me too much you know that's just been the main point of focusing Camp just staying straight minded and you know the um the goal at
hand you know this year is H this year's been a little rough for your boy I going to lie you know I had my fight in February then I turned around and was going to fight again in St Louis and had the shoulder injury so I had to get shoulder surgery back in March so I'm just really thankful and blessed Le say would be able to compete at the end of the year you know so it's just been a lot of a lot of grinding a lot of downtime you know a lot of self-reflection but
um I've you know made it a point to you know stay myself and stay true and just ride it out until we get up again um I took away a lot of positive things you know I really want to implement my wrestling again which is something that I've gotten away from in a lot of my MMA fights and it's just been kind of like a 5050 shot and get screwed over by judges and whatnot so I've been really trying to tone it in on solidifying wins you know getting good positions great positions and looking for
finishes or just getting out here and getting you know as perfect possible as I can opman a good fighter you know he's definitely got a lot of power in his hands um I've seen his skill set you know he's got a great record he comes from a great Camp over there but I'm just a little confused on why this guy fights like and he some like Moroccan Prince or something like sha Al gives his take on Mor Rob getting into an altercation in the crowd at UFC 310 Sean says Mor Rob doesn't have control of
himself morab posted a video explaining it that guy kind of grabbed his arm freaked out start bucking um started bucking uh start and then someone else on Al team threw some punches uh MAV just can't quite seem out get out of trouble it's always when you're leaving that cage it's like no matter if you won or you lost there's people talking right on the sides every every fight we've been to there's people talking on the sides Mor Rob just doesn't have any control of his little self yeah he he gets fired up pretty easy fired
up pretty easy Shan Strickland reveals a conversation he had with Johnny Walker at the gym Shawn also hints that Johnny got the better of him in sparring Sean first posted this photo he wrote I think you may have won this battle he followed up with this video so me and Walker were talking the other day man we're both like very grateful for our lives you know like we're in a place we're happy even even not with fighting we're just thankful for our lives anyways Walker's telling me Sean when I was 14 I had to live
on a piece of property and like he was happy about this it wasn't a bad thing he was like I was contracted to work this piece of property with my family till I 14 then I could leave and I was like Johnny my man that is called slavery and it is illegal in America so it was going to be America somay man Tom Aspen had some harsh words for Jon Jones in an interview with Piers Morgan Tom said John let me start by saying John is absolutely Elite and I completely agree with the notion that
he's one of the best fighters ever the way I look at it is he has failed a couple of drug tests to me that rules you out of being the best of all time for me personally yeah it makes him a cheat of course it does if you're on steroids or whatever I don't think he was on steroids but he was on Peds if you're on peeds and your opponent isn't that's absolutely cheating in my book unless you're both allowed to do it Piers then asked Tom if he's ever taken peeds Tom continued absolutely not
when I retire I will absolutely to keep my body healthy I think when you fight an MMA you absolutely shouldn't be using peeds pers then asked if JN should even be allowed to fight Tom due to the peeds Tom replied yeah if he's not using them now yeah I think so yeah absolutely and that's going to wrap it up for the news thanks for watching for daily MMA News and content subscribe to full Mount MMA and click the Bell icon to be notified when we post videos here are the three top comments from last video
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