MMA News Roundup: Charles Oliveira Revealed His Warrior Mentality for UFC 289 Bout; Brendan Loughnane Suffered a Devastating Loss at PFL 4; Robert Whittaker Revealed Training Regime for UFC 290 Fight

Many MMA fans frequently struggle to keep up with the various updates from the world of their favorite sport in today’s time-constrained world. This brings us back to you with our MMA news roundup. It will provide you with insight into a few significant MMA-related events from the previous day so that you don’t lag behind the fast-paced world of your beloved sport.

Today we’ll start off with Charles Oliveira’s caution words for his UFC 289 opponent Beneil Dariush. Moving on, we’ll also know about the 2022 PFL Featherweight champ, Brendan Loughnane’s unexpected defeat in this year’s season. Finally, we’ll wrap things up for the day after taking a look at how Robert Whittaker is preparing for his upcoming challenge.

Charles Oliveira warned Beneil Dariush about granting his wish

The UFC fans must be counting down the hours for the UFC 289. The coveted co-main eventer of the night, Beneil Dariush had clarified that he would be going all in against his opponent, Charles Oliveira to set up an enthralling event for the fans previously. Lately, Oliveira also revealed that he had similar plans for the matchup.

In his pre-UFC 289 press conference, the former UFC Lightweight kingpin stated, “I’m hungry, I’m gonna go after this guy. I have all the respect in the world for him but I’m gonna go after him, I’m gonna hunt him all the time. He wanted a war, war is coming”.

It may be agreed that such a revelation from ‘Do Bronx’ will excite the fans even further for their touted matchup. Whom do you see as the victor of this ‘Benny’ vs ‘Do Bronx’ “war”?

Brendan Loughnane crashed out of the PFL world championship after a startling loss

The noted UK native fighter, Brendan Loughnane had an awesome 2022 as he went on to claim the PFL Featherweight world championship for the year to his name. Understandably, a number of his fans had expected a repetition of his superb achievement this year as well.

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But, they were subjected to a huge disappointment recently after their beloved star fell to Jesus Pinedo in the preliminary stage of the tournament. Loughnane suffered a first-round TKO against his Peruvian opponent, Pinedo at PFL 4. A brutal knee from the victor stunned Loughnane in the early minutes of the bout. He went down to the canvas which had Pinedo finishing the bout with some vicious ground and pound soon after.

This loss will also see Loughnane crash out of this year’s PFL Featherweight Championship. But, his fans will definitely expect that he will return with all his might after this defeat.

Robert Whittaker revealed how he was training for Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 290

Most UFC fans already know that the UFC 290 will feature a virtual eliminator for a shot at Israel Adesanya’s UFC Middleweight title. Amid all the talks about that touted Robert Whittaker vs Dricus Du Plessis bout, the former recently took to his Twitter handle to provide his fans with an update on his training routine for the bout.

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In his Twitter video, ‘Bobby Knuckles’ stated, “Filling up the gas tank… Getting stronger as you can see, look at these (flexing biceps). Being stronger and yeah that’s pretty much it. I’m just enjoying the process… looking forward to getting in there. So thank you, July 8th. Me and Dricus getting at it.”

How excited are you for July 8th? Also, do you think all of Whittaker’s hard work will suffice to get the better of his South African opponent?

Some more MMA news

• Henry Cejudo predicted Irene Aldana as the victor of her UFC 290 main event bout against Amanda Nunes
• The UFC is working on a Karine Silva vs. Maryna Moroz for UFC 292 in August