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Did erectile dysfunction retire Matt Brown?!

No, probably not. “The Immortal” perpetual mixed martial arts (MMA) entertainer did simply lose his excitement, though.

Brown, 43, already had a brief unofficial retirement from the sport a few years back. However, the longtime Welterweight veteran and knockout artist made it clear he wasn’t returning with a series of Twitter posts this past weekend (Sat., May 4, 2024). He has since revealed his most recent offer to fight Max Griffin wasn’t doing it for him and he knew that must have been the sign that it was time.

“I remember I woke up one morning and I saw the email, and my d—k didn’t get hard,” Brown told MMA Junkie. “I didn’t get a feeling down my spine. I wasn’t excited. I was like, ‘Man, I could use that money. That’d be cool.’ But I just didn’t get fired up about it. That was probably the first thing. Then, secondly, [I’ve been] flipping houses and running a gym now. I have a good crew of people and staff in my gym. I really feel like I’m selling these people short because I keep fighting, and these businesses are not growing to the extent they could because I’m not putting that kind of energy into it.

“I’m just going for that quick buck, going and making money fighting,” he continued. “My guys in my gym have been with me for the six years I’ve owned it. They’ve gotten very small raises the whole time. I feel like I can make a lot more money, not only for myself but for them also. We have a lot of customers I don’t really get to hang out with and speak to. I just feel like I’m feeling a lot of people short, including my family. My children — the ability to be present with them and the ability to spend more time with them, things like that.”

Brown added that he’s open to the possibility of taking a fight outside MMA like many others before him have started to do in recent years. Nothing sounds too enticing at the moment for Brown, so don’t expect any crazy news to develop too quickly if at all.

If there was one final fight Brown had in mind, it was that hopeful veteran pairing of him and Jim Miller for UFC 300. Unfortunately for Brown, the fight instead went to Bobby Green, who defeated Miller via a unanimous decision.

“I’m not bitter by any means, but if there’s anything that rubbed me the wrong way it’s that I wasn’t able to get on 300 because that’s how I wanted to end it,” Brown said. “I begged to get on 100. I begged to get on 200. I begged to get on 300. I was like, ‘Dude, haven’t I earned something yet.’ I tried everything I could, and I thought it was set in stone. I was literally training to fight Jim Miller. He said he wanted to fight me; I said I wanted to fight him. I thought all the cards were in place, and I thought it was going to be an easy call, and then it didn’t happen. It would’ve been the perfect sendoff for me. I’m sure UFC has their reasons, whatever they are.”

Brown ends his career last picking up a first round highlight-reel knockout win over Court McGee in May 2023 (watch highlights).

Dustin Poirier had no demands for his upcoming UFC 302 title shot next month (Sat., June 1, 2024).

Islam Makhachev has his next Lightweight title defense lined up and “The Diamond” will look to score the massive upset. After all the contenders sorted things out amongst each other from UFC 299 to UFC 300, the most readily available was left to face the champion, and that was Poirier.

Although he wound up as the next man up, Poirier wasn’t the first option. The promotion gave Arman Tsarukyan the chance to challenge for gold immediately after his split decision win over Charles Oliveira at UFC 300 last month (April 13, 2024). Ultimately, the No. 1-ranked contender passed on the opportunity, opening the door for Poirier.

“[UFC CBO] Hunter [Campbell] started texting me Saturday of 300,” Poirier said on The MMA Hour. “He actually called me and said — I mean as soon as Arman beat Charles — he called me, ‘The fight just ended. I’m walking to the locker room right now.’ I was doing a viewing party up in Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun and he’s on the phone saying, ‘I’ll call you back. Give me like one hour. I’ll call you or text you and let you know.’ He went in Arman’s locker room and said, ‘Hey, you’re next. The fight, you know when it is.’

“I understand too from Arman’s side, bro,” he continued. “You just do an eight-week training camp. You go out there and fight, you win. You haven’t even had a chance to process everything and you’re in the locker room taking off your shorts and gloves and cup, and your boss comes in and says, ‘Hey, you ready to go again in six weeks?’ Five weeks, whatever it was at the time. You have to jump back in training camp. Your body’s kind of beat up, and you’re guaranteed the next title shot. I understand that. He’s next in line regardless.”

As training partners at American Top Team (ATT) in Florida, there’s a possibility for Poirier and Tsarukyan to collide following a Poirier title win. Even though one thing led to another on the night of UFC 300, Poirier noted that the two interacted earlier in the day (Mon., May 6, 2024) for the first time since the decisions were made. It was brief but not hostile, said Poirier.

The upcoming title fight will be Poirier’s third at undisputed gold in UFC. A unanimous decision over Max Holloway in their rematch at UFC 236 led Poirier to interim gold in April 2019. Unfortunately for him, it didn’t culminate in the big one when he fell short against Khabib Nurmagomedov later that year. At age 35, Poirier is treating this like his last possible chance at hearing “and new.”

“I was just in a position where I felt I can’t say no,” Poirier said.

“That wasn’t a full notice for me as well, but I’m not in a position to say, ‘Hey, I want eight weeks,’” he added. “I gotta jump on this thing and try to win this thing. This was it on my end. Okay, see you in New Jersey. Boom. Let’s go to work.”

Tom Aspinall is still feeling like the odd man out in Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Heavyweight division.

A UFC interim title just isn’t the same as it used to be. That’s in the case of England’s Aspinall, anyway. Unfortunately for the talented titlist, his hopes to challenge for undisputed gold haven’t felt realistic after winning the crown over Sergei Pavlovich via a 69-second knockout (watch highlights) at UFC 295 this past November 2023.

Current undisputed titleholder, Jon Jones, and company have remained adamant that his first defense will come against former two-time kingpin, Stipe Miocic, once he’s ready to return. Meanwhile, Aspinall can expect to also defend his title against another Heavyweight contender, which would ideally lead to a clash with the winner of Jones vs. Miocic. However, Jones expressed more interest in a potential fight with Light Heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, over Aspinall this past week.

“If we can get old mate Jon to ever sign a contract with my name on the other side of the contract, I’ll talk about him for hours on this show,” Aspinall told TNT Sports (h/t MMA Fighting). “Hours. But right now, the guy is playing games again. Trying to convince the public what he wants and what he doesn’t want. Which he does really, really well. As I said, we can chat about Jon, if and when he ever signs a contract with my name on the other side of it. Because right now, let’s be honest, it’s not looking very likely.”

UFC returns to Aspinall’s home county of England for UFC 304 in Manchester on July 27, 2024. The event makes all the sense in the world for an Aspinall title fight, but the champion still does not indicate when or who he’ll be returning against.

“The last I knew, it was going to get announced this weekend [at UFC 301], and obviously that’s been and gone now,” Aspinall said when asked about UFC 304.

“Right now, I have no idea what’s going on,” he continued. “I wish I could come on the show, I wish I could announce on social media, I wish I could start dragging traffic that way, but right now I have no idea. I’m just getting myself prepared for that date. As far as opponents and stuff like that, I don’t know what’s going on right now.”