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Tom Aspinall will not discuss Conor McGregor “He’s a scary guy.”

English UFC athlete Tom Aspinall was told off by Conor McGregor to not say anything about him, and Aspinall respectfully agreed. Conor McGregor is one of the biggest names in MMA history having blockbuster matches in the UFC and boxing. Aspinall curre…

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Tom Aspinall and Conor McGregor

In a 2023 interview, England’s Aspinall said that he was over the Conor McGregor hype train. The Irish athlete ‘Notorious’ quickly took to Twitter and had some words for the English fighter. McGregor said, “Say sayonara to that gk deal kid. Starve you and kill you I will you f*cking disrespectful pr*ck. Don’t ever speak my name in disrespect again. Mush potato head.”

Recently in an interview, Aspinall was asked for comment about the situation. He explained, “Listen, Conor told me not to speak about him anymore. So, I’m going to respect that. I don’t want — he’s a scary guy … He’s giving out threats, so I’m going to back off. I ain’t going to talk about it no more if that’s the case. There’s no history. I’ve never talked to him before. We don’t have any mutual friends or nothing like that … I mean, he’s not wrong. I do look a bit like Mr. Potato Head. I think that’s pretty hilarious. He’s not wrong.”

Tom Aspinall will be looking to defend his interim heavyweight title at UFC 304 against Curtis Blaydes, live from Machester, England, on July 27. While it has been long-rumoured and speculated about, Conor McGregor has been on and off for fighting Michael Chandler. But, as of now, there is no fight date made official. The two fighters just came off of a season coaching against one another on The Ultimate Fighter. Fans are excited for the return of the former two-division king ‘Notorious.’

Sean Strickland compares Belal Muhammad to a terrorist

Sean Strickland may have taken things a little too far in his rivalry with UFC 304 headliner Belal Muhammad….

Sean Strickland may have taken things a little too far in his rivalry with UFC 304 headliner Belal Muhammad.

Crossing the line is pretty much Strickland’s official brand at this point, but fight fans weren’t exactly thrilled with his latest dig at Muhammad on social media.

“Belal looks like why I have to take my shoes off in airports…..” Strickland commented on Instagram.

While ‘Remember The Name’ hasn’t responded to the ill-advised comment, Strickland drew the ire of users on both Instagram and X, many of them condemning the “disgusting” statement.

“Sean Strickland implying Belal Muhammad is a terrorist simply because he’s Muslim. Disgusting & despicable behavior but I wouldn’t expect any less & you know a large swath of the MMA community will cheerlead this behavior,” one user wrote.

Another noted how Strickland had nothing to say about another Muslim fighter—Islam Makhachev—while sitting next to him during the UFC 302 press conference in June.

“It’s funny how Sean didn’t [say] anything like that when he was sitting next to Islam at the press conference. He went backstage and said it in one-on-one interviews.”

Sean Strickland and Belal Muhammad trade barbs following UFC P.I. encounter in 2023

Strickland and Muhammad have taken jabs back and forth over the years, but things seemed to escalate last year when ‘Tarzan’ shared a video online that featured Muhammad training in the background. Strickland labeled the top-ranked welterweight ‘thunder thumbs’ in the clip, which you can see below:

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— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) May 31, 2023

Unenthused by Strickland’s antics, Belal Muhammad issued a response shortly after, telling the former middleweight champ that he’s simply “not that guy.”

“This guy’s trying to act tough again on social media. Looking for clout chasing, trying to get views for a podcast,” Muhammad said. “I offered to fight you. You turned it down. You putting out this video of you recording from a distance, muttering under your breath, thunder thumbs, which is not even clever. Your racist hillbilly fans are saying ‘Oh man you’re a beast’, ‘you’re a man’, look how crazy he is.

“But look at the distance. It’s like someone recording a lion in the wild. You stay at a safe distance. You don’t get into the danger zone. You didn’t get into the danger zone. Just stop this. You’re not that guy. You’re more of like an emo Peewee Herman.”

Strickland snapped back, welcoming a fight with Muhammad anytime, anywhere.

“Man, you guys believe this f*cking clown? Lmao ok p*ssy tomorrow 11am,” he wrote. “Gloves, no gloves idc….”

As far as we know, that encounter never happened, but if Belal Muhammad manages to defeat Leon Edwards for the welterweight title in Manchester, perhaps we’ll see Strickland move up and try to settle things with ‘Bully B’ inside the Octagon.

Curtis Blaydes opens up about his speech impediment ahead of UFC 304

Ahead of the biggest fight of his UFC career, Curtis Blaydes opened up about his speech impediment and the…

Ahead of the biggest fight of his UFC career, Curtis Blaydes opened up about his speech impediment and the impact it’s had on him.

Razor’ is set to challenge interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall in the UFC 304 co-main event in what will be his first shot at UFC gold since making his promotional debut eight years ago. Ahead of their highly anticipated title tilt at Co-op Live in Manchester, Blaydes looked back on his younger years growing up on the mean streets of Chicago where kids would often make fun of his speech disorder.

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“I never really saw myself as like a spokesman for speech impediments, but it was my dad… He also had a speech impediment,” Blaydes said during his UFC 304 media day appearance. “I got it from him. It’s hereditary. It’s not because of CTE. Let’s get that out there. I know I get asked that the most.

“I used to… Whenever people asked for my name, I used to go c…c…c… They’d look at me like, ‘Are you special? Do you not know how to pronounce your own name?’ It used to make me feel some type of way. Now I judge them. Are you that ignorant that you think that me as a grown man, I don’t know how to pronounce my own name? I have a speech impediment. I’ve gotten over it, but it took me a while.

“I was a kid in high school that wouldn’t raise my hand if I knew the answer. I was embarrassed. I didn’t want people to laugh and call that stuff. I just want those people who also have a speech impediment to know that if people are laughing at you, it doesn’t mean anything about you. It means a whole lot more about them and their character.“

At one point, Blaydes had considered a career as a history teacher but refrained from pursuing it, suggesting that the cruelty of kids played a role in his decision.

“Kids are mean. I can’t be in a classroom with them for eight hours,” Aspinall said in a prior interview with the New York Post. “There [are] so many people who just think, if you cannot speak…medically correct, that you’re not intelligent. Contrary to popular belief, a lot of us who have speech impediments are really, really intelligent.”

For what it’s worth, ‘Razor’ is doing pretty good with his chosen career.

Curtis Blaydes looks to go two-up on Tom Aspinall

Amassing an impressive 13-4 record inside the Octagon, Curtis Blaydes has bested some of the heavyweight division’s heaviest hitters over the years, including former world champions Andrei Arlovski and Junior dos Santos. He’s won four of his last five, earning wins over the likes of Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Chris Daukaus, Jailton Almeida, and his UFC 304 opponent, Tom Aspinall.

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Squaring off at a Fight Night event in London two years ago, Aspinall went down 15 seconds into their scrap due to a devastating knee injury. Aspinall has been chomping at the bit to run it back ever since.

He’ll finally get his wish on Saturday night when he becomes the first fighter in more than a decade to defend an interim title.

Paddy Pimblett has pleasant elevator ride with former opponent

Whilst there’s some clear animosity between King Green and his upcoming opponent, Paddy Pimblett ahead of UFC 304 –…

Whilst there’s some clear animosity between King Green and his upcoming opponent, Paddy Pimblett ahead of UFC 304 – the Liverpool native was nothing but courteous with common-opponent, Jared Gordon during a chance encounter in an elevator at the fighter hotel.

Pimblett, who is hoping to crack the lightweight top-15 this week ahead of his battle with striking phenom, Green on the main card of their UFC 304 battle, has so-far enjoyed an impressive winning spree since his landing in the Octagon following Cage Warriors title success.

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Last time out, the outspoken Huyton native landed a one-sided unanimous decision win over another common-foe, former interim champion, Tony Ferguson at UFC 296 back in December of last year.

The victory came as Pimblett’s return to action following a prior unanimous decision win in hugely-controversial circumstances against the above-mentioned Gordon the year prior, to much fan and pundit dismay collectively.

Paddy Pimblett shares an elevator with Jared Gordon

And running into the East Coast favorite this week during UFC 304 fight week, Pimblett admitted to Gordon that he likely should have received the judge’s nod that night in their lightweight scrap, something the latter wholeheartedly agreed with.

“Always a pleasure running into my man, Jared (Gordon),” Paddy Pimblett wrote in a caption on his official Tik Tok account.

Set to receive his own pair of orange-colored shorts – reminiscent of his time during this gold-laden tenure with Cage Warriors, Pimblett mocked Green for spending so long under the banner of the UFC without ever receiving his own custom fight wear.

Himself turning in an impressive win last time out, San Bernardino native, Green bloodied and bruised fellow veteran, Jim Miller in a long-anticipated matchup on the preliminary card of UFC 300 back in April of this year.

Who wins this weekend at UFC 304: King Green or Paddy Pimblett?

Kamaru Usman: ‘Leon for this one’, picks rival in UFC 304 main event

Thrice sharing the Octagon with incumbent welterweight champion, Leon Edwards, former pound-for-pound number one, Kamaru Usman has stuck his…

Thrice sharing the Octagon with incumbent welterweight champion, Leon Edwards, former pound-for-pound number one, Kamaru Usman has stuck his flag to the Birmingham native to retain his crown in his title fight with Belal Muhammad at UFC 304 this weekend.

Usman, who retains the number one rank at the welterweight limit following his trilogy fight loss to Edwards back in March of last year in London, has been sidelined since an impromptu move to middleweight back in October.

Tackling the unbeaten, Khamzat Chimaev on that occasion, Kamaru Usman turned in an impressive performance en route to a close, split decision loss to the Chechen in their short-notice UFC 294 co-main event fight.

And weighing up his return to the welterweight limit, in the form of a with the unbeaten, Ian Garry – Auchi native, Usman was also the subject of a recent call out from Michael ‘Venom’ Page.

Kamaru Usman picks Leon Edwards in UFC 304 main event

Offering his prediction for this weekend’s title fight between Edwards and Muhammad, Usman – who is the last fighter to beat the Birmingham native during their first pairing back in 2015, picked him to retain his crown in Manchester.

“Leon (Edwards) is starting to kinda settle in to that seat,” Kamaru Usman said on his podcast. “He shouldn’t be, because I ain’t going nowhere yet. I think he believes that he’s the champion here. Leon is working on staying there. So, I’m gonna stay with Leon for this one. I think Leon might be able to pull this one out.”

Sharing the stage at yesterday’s pre-fight press conference, Edwards and Muhammad were held apart by security and UFC officials after an almost coming together, with the champion lunging at the challenge in a bid to psych him out – ultimately to no avail.

Who wins this weekend at UFC 304: Leon Edwards or Belal Muhammad?

LIVE: Watch UFC 304 Weigh-Ins

Watch UFC 304 Weigh-Ins The UFC 304 weigh-ins show will begin at 9:50am ET / 6:50am PT, with the…

Watch UFC 304 Weigh-Ins

The UFC 304 weigh-ins show will begin at 9:50am ET / 6:50am PT, with the ceremonial UFC 304 show booked for 2pm ET / 11am PT, all on Friday July 26.

Watch the UFC 304 weigh ins live right here, to be featuring Leon Edwards, Tom Aspinall, Curtis Blaydes, Bobby King Green, Paddy Pimblett, Muhammad Mokaev, Manel Kape, Arnold Allen, Giga Chikadze and Belal Muhammad, among others.

The UFC 304 event is going down live from Machester, England scheduled for this Saturday night. For more live coverage keep it locked to Low Kick MMA. Also, see interviews with Paddy Pimblett. Plus, our watch guide, on how to watch the event in your specific country and timezone.