MMA News Round-Up: Jorge Masvidal Stuns Boxing World; Conor McGregor Teases Apple Collaboration; Ex-UFC Champion Francis Ngannou Responds to the Tyson Fury Challenge

The exciting world of MMA provided its fabs with a lot of excitement in the past few hours. From major combat sports announcements to startling reactions from fighters to possible opponents, the last few hours saw a lot happening in the MMA world. Here’s a selection of the most noted MMA world events from the past day in our MMA news roundup. The noted ‘BMF’ of the UFC, Jorge Masvidal, made a big announcement about his own combat promotion, Gamebred Boxing 4. Masvidal revealed the iconic MMA world personalities set to take the stage for an event of his promotion. Furthermore, the Irish MMA star Conor McGregor took to Twitter recently and hinted at the revelation of a mega announcement related to the tech giant, ‘Apple’. Lastly, the noted former UFC Heavyweight Champion, Francis Ngannou, gave out his response about taking on Tyson Fury in a modified rule boxing bout.

Jorge Masvidal unveils the star-studded card for Gamebred Boxing 4 event

A lot of MMA fans might know that the ‘BMF’ of the UFC also runs his own promotion. ‘Gamebred’s’ own boxing promotion, ‘Gambred Boxing’ is all set to host their 4th event at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. Lately, Masvidal appeared on the coveted podcast of Ariel Helwani, ‘The MMA Hour’, and made a startling revelation about the entire fight card of the upcoming event of his promotion.

Masvidal would have shocked most fans when he revealed that MMA icons like Jose Aldo,Vitor Belfort, Paul Daley, Jeremy Stephens, and a few more would be a part of the event. He also revealed that the main event of the evening would be a bout between the legendary Anthony Pettis and Roy Jones Jr. In Helwani’s podcast, the BMF stated, “I’ve always been a fan of Roy Jones. It’s crazy what this guy has done in his career in MMA. Great striker.”

The entire fight card of Gambred Boxing 4 is as follows:

• Anthony Pettis vs. Roy Jones Jr.
• Vitor Belfort vs. Ronaldo Souza
• Jose Aldo vs. Jeremy Stephens
• Pearl Gonzalez vs. Gina Mazany
• Paul Daley vs. Anthony Taylor
• Devin Cushing vs. Damian Marciano
• Dillon Klecker vs. Josh Burns
• Bi Nguyen vs. TBD

Conor McGregor’s Steve Jobs-styled tweet revealed he had a mega announcement to make

The Irish UFC star, Conor McGregor, maintained his habit of publicizing his whereabouts with his tweets. Recently, McGregor took to Twitter once more and stated that he had a “mega announcement” to make. ‘The Notorious’ caption also contained a mention of the tech giant, ‘Apple’.

Further, he also appeared in the tweet in a Steve Jobs-styled outfit, even with round framed specs just like the former Apple CEO.

McGregor, mentioning ‘Apple’ in his tweet, had the fans speculating. A lot of them said that they already knew about McGregor’s new venture in TUF 31 as a coach. But, ‘Mystic Mac’ actually might have something in the store for the fans related to Apple.

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It’s understandable that a lot would await his “mega announcement” eagerly.

Francis Ngannou responded to Tyson Fury’s suggested requirements for their probable bout

As of now, the most probable direction that the former UFC Heavyweight Champion, Francis Ngannou will take is to go for a boxing bout against the former two-time Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Tyson Fury. A few days prior, Fury had stated his choices of rules for his bout against Ngannou. Fury talked to ‘Boxxer’ where he revealed his choices related to certain things in their possible bout.

Lately, ‘The Predator’, Ngannou also gave out his take on the choices of Fury for their probable future bout.

The former UFC Heavyweight Champion put out a tweet that revealed he was in good agreement with Fury regarding his suggested choices.

It was apparent that fans would be awaiting this coveted bout to see who proves himself to be the ‘Baddest Man on the Planet’.

Some more MMA news

• The famed UFC Lightweight, Michael Chandler, showcased extreme confidence regarding his probable fight with Conor McGregor. Chandler stated that his bout with McGregor could well achieve the figure of 2 million pay-per-view sales.
• The noted UFC Lightweight Interim title challenger and food vlogger, Kevin Lee, has resigned from the promotion after his exit from Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Eagle FC.

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