MMA On Point - Podcast

Nearly every fighter that has competed in MMA will face at least one loss in their career. For the more legendary fighters, those losses rarely come, but it's not always against people of their caliber. That's what we talk about today that one random loss on Islam Makhachev's career, Sean Strickland and more.

The UFC these days would have you believe their success story and the billions they are worth today was a straight line progression of wins for the company ever since Dana White took over the promotion as president. If you look at the history though, there are numerous failures and notably, weight classes that straight don't exist anymore, were given up on and brought back later or sent to the shadow realm. These are the weight classes the UFC gave up on at one time or another.

Shocking defeats and upsets happen all the time in MMA, but you rarely see fighters as shocked as they are in these circumstances. Nothing like celebrating you won a fight before it ever even happened, eh Ilia Topuria? Conor's disapointing main event was historically bad, but isn't actually the worst humbling of his career and we'll show you what is.

Name a worse main event than this? At least Aspinal vs Gane had a few minutes of actual fighting. Couture vs Vitor 2 happened when no one was watching the sport comparitively in the dark ages. And the question on everyone's lips is how did Conor McGregor get this injury? Was he already unstable before the fight? Why did he look so nervous? What a disaster this main event was.

Conor McGregor. Just saying his name brings up a lot of thoughts. And as he is making his return this weekend against Max Holloway it appears. Well, there is clearly a huge divide between the hardcore and casual fanbases. I'll ask you...Do you like Conor McGregor in 2026?

These days you can't look at a comment section of a Gable Steveson video or clip on social media without his allegations coming up. I was extremely curious about this myself and decided to take a deep dive look at it. Did he get away with it or is he innocent?

In hindsight, it will be funny to look at these, but the truth is the vast majority of fans counted them out. Multiple title losses, setbacks, years away from the title or even losing streaks among the top ranks... well yeah, people start to lose faith. These are the repeat champions that proved everyone wrong.

Have you ever seen a fanbase switch alliances towards the fighters during a rivalry? Well that is exactly the case in all of these rivalries today. Either the fans turned against one fighter or both, either way it's the complete opposite of the first fight.

Yep. You read that right. An MMA champion, who also fought for the UFC world middleweight title somehow became Jeffrey Epstein's bodyguard. HOW* is specifically the question we sought to answer here today.

Dustin Poirier was recently arrested after he was founded to have disturbed a flight, was removed from the plain and subsequently went after everyone in sight, including the cops. He was arrested and could face up to a year in jail. What in the world happened here?