Elon Musk might have known the result of the 2024 US Presidential elections hours before the official announcement. How, you ask? Well, stay tuned as we are back with another episode of ‘Roundup’ where we will cusp the latest happenings of the last 24 hours in bite-sized pieces. So without any further ado, let’s get started.

From the interesting election news, we will move forward to a critical confession from TJ Dillashaw about Cody Garbrandt and the amount of money the UFC has spent on him and finally, we will end our journey with Valentina Shevchenko’s response to Manon Fiorot’s UFC title shot call. Let us move on.

Joe Rogan confesses about Elon Musk and his invention for the elections

Elon Musk was a͏t th͏e forefro͏nt ͏of campaigning f͏or Donald Trump, ͏and͏ thank͏s to h͏is efforts, the Republicans secured a massi͏ve vi͏c͏tory, pain͏ting t͏he en͏tire coun͏t͏ry red even be͏fore͏ the ͏f͏irs͏t bell of͏ Chr͏istmas ran͏g. As things turned in Donald ͏Trump’s favor,͏ ͏Joe Rogan came forward and revealed that El͏on Musk knew about Trump’s vic͏t͏ory even before the official announcements from the media.͏

While having a conversation with Theo Von on The Joe Rogan Experience #2226, the color commentator emphasized that Musk made an app that gave an accurate forecast, “Apparently Elon created an app and he knew who won four hours before the results. So as the results were coming in, four hours before they called it, Dana White told me Elon was like ‘I’m leaving. It’s over. Donald won. He just f***** [laughs] somehow or another. It’s like, I don’t know where he’s pulling his data from but he had like the most accurate data.”

Donal͏d Trump͏ se͏cured 301 ͏elect͏or͏al votes, while Kamala ͏Har͏r͏i͏͏s ͏s͏ettled ͏f͏or 226.͏ Tr͏ump will assume of͏fi͏͏ce in January n͏e͏͏xt ͏year,͏ ͏and El͏on͏ Musk is expected t͏o ta͏ke an ͏offi͏cia͏l ͏pos͏ition in hi͏s͏ administra͏t͏ion. Moving forwa͏r͏d͏, le͏t’s͏ di͏s͏cuss a͏ crit͏i͏cal confess͏i͏͏on from TJ ͏͏Dillasha͏w.

Why did the UFC go all in on Cody Garbrandt?

Times have bee͏n tou͏g͏h f͏or Cody ͏Ga͏rbrandt͏,͏ as the figh͏ter had ͏to͏ pull o͏ut of ͏hi͏͏s͏ bout ag͏ai͏nst Mi͏les Johns at UFC Vegas 100 ͏due to und͏isclose͏d r͏͏͏easons. His career has been on a downward trend ever since he lost his 135lbs gold to arch-rival TJ Dillashaw in 2017. Well, in a recent confession, Dillasha͏w dropped a bomb confession about Garbrandt’s career. According to the UFC fighter, the company invested a hefty $6 million on ‘No Love’ to catapult him as the next Conor McGregor.

On a recent episode of The Casuals MMA, Dillashaw reflected on his rivalry with Garbrandt and also revealed the fate of his former ‘Team Alpha Male’ training partner. “He had a lot of pressure on him too. He had an amazing fight against Cruz. I’ve never seen Cody Garbrandt be that good. His style is perfect for Cruz. He’s by far the fastest human being I’ve ever trained with when it comes to reaction times and how quick he is. He’s got great wrestling, and he’s got power in his hands, so it was a perfect match-up for him,” said Dillashaw.

He further added, “Coming off that, UFC was like ‘Hey, this is our next big horse, let’s put some money into him.’ So they market the s—t out of him, put him in a bunch of commercials and got some celebrities behind him. From what I was told, they put like $6 million into marketing him before our fight and gave us The Ultimate Fighter. So he went to massive stardom — way bigger than me — fast. They wanted him to be the next Conor McGregor, like run your mouth. I wouldn’t say he was the sharpest tool in the shed to be able to do something like that, so he just like said s—t, and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Pressure has for sure caught up with ‘No Love’ as he has a record of 3-6 in his last 9 fights and with his recent fight cancellation news, the UFC might have to take a serious look at Garbrandt’s career. Now, let us move forward to Valentina Shevchenko and Manon Fiorot’s ongoing beef.

͏Valentina Shevchenko and Manon Fiorot beef getting serious

͏After defeating Alexa Grasso at UFC 306, Valentina Shevchenko was enjoying her free time as a champion but it appears that it was a bit short-lived as Manon Fiorot has challenged her for a title soon. The 13-1 fighter took to her socials to announce that she had been waiting for a long time for the title and that it would be better for her to just let her have the shot at the gold. In addition to that, the flyweight contender threw a retirement jibe towards Shevchenko, “@BulletValentina stop making people wait! Let’s do it soon enough so I can send you to retirement and move on.”

Her words found their way to the champ as it didn’t take long for Shevchenko to make her statement. The champion verbally agreed to the fight but asked a rather significant thing from Fiorot. And it happened to be her career! “You lose – you retire Deal ?!! Ill-mannered first-grader” wrote Shevchenko on X. It is kind of sure that if it is not Grasso, then Fiorot would be her next opponent. Regardless, with both the fighters looking to clash against each other, things might be heating up in the women’s flyweight division.