MMA News Round-Up: Justin Gaethje Rips Michael Bisping for UFC 286, Conor McGregor Releases TUF Moments, Aljamain Sterling’s Featherweight Hint

Even after the conclusion of the coveted UFC 286, the fast-paced world of MMA isn’t short of thrills and news. The last 24 hours in the world of MMA also packed a few major notable occurrences. The number of incidents reported was a lot, which might be too much to know for a single fan. Hence, we are here with our MMA news roundup to provide a summary of the most noteworthy incidents in the MMA world from the last 24 hours.

We’ll start off by taking a look at the first faceoff between the TUF 31 coaches, Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler. Moving on, we’ll also know about what the UFC 286 co-main eventer, Justin Gaethje, had to say about the former UFC middleweight champion, Michael Bisping’s commentary. Finally, we’ll cast light on the UFC bantamweight king, Aljamain Sterling’s, intent to move up a weight class.

Conor McGregor releases the first faceoff snaps of the TUF 31 coaches

The TUF 31 had already gained massive hype among fight fans after electing to feature ‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor as one of the coaches. His adversary for the show, Michael Chandler, and his reputation, also drew a lot of eyes to the UFC’s MMA-based reality TV series.

Recently, McGregor released the snaps of the first faceoff between him and Chandler for TUF 31. ‘Mystic Mac’ took to probably his favorite social media platform, Twitter, as he shared the snaps through a tweet.

Quite expectedly, McGregor’s tweet garnered massive responses from the Twitter community. A lot of them also gave out their opinion as comments as well.

Justin Gaethje bashed Michael Bisping’s biased commentary at UFC 286

The UFC 286 co-main eventer, Justin Gaethje, chose to stand out from the judge’s decision of declaring Leon Edwards as the victor of the UFC 286 main event. In the post-event press conference, he mentioned that, as per his judgment, Usman had won the bout. He also accused the former UFC middleweight Champion and current UFC analyst and commentator, Michael Bisping, of being unnecessarily biased towards his countryman, Leon Edwards, in the UFC 286 main event.

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Talking about his judgment of seeing Usman as the UFC 286 main event winner, Gaethje stated, “I am probably as biased as the judges, certainly not as biased as Michael Bisping. He shouldn’t have been nowhere near a microphone, during that fight”.

Gaethje’s opinion was also shared by some noted MMA coverage houses as well. The comments section of their social media posts showcased that a lot of fans carried a similar opinion.

Aljamain Sterling provided hints towards moving up to Featherweight

Aljamain Sterling was evidently impressed by the superb performance showcased by the UFC featherweight star Jack Shore. The ‘Welsh fighter’ submitted his opponent, Makwan Amirkhani, in the second round with a rear naked choke. It was also his first fight at featherweight. The UFC bantamweight king also put out a tweet appreciating Shore’s superb performance.

However, some might view this tweet as an indication of Sterling’s potential move to featherweight as well. After the UFC Fight Night 221 victory of his dear friend and division mate, Merab Dvalishvili, ‘The Machine’ stood in line as his next opponent for a shot at the bantamweight Gold. But Dvalishvili refused to take up the title shot, which required him to fight his friend.

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Instead, ‘the Georgian’ stated that he would wait till Sterling decides to move up to featherweight. He also revealed that he will go for a title only after that. But now, fans might say that Sterling probably is making way for his friend, Dvalishvili, so that he can have a shot at the UFC featherweight gold.