Darren Till
Darren Till woke up and chose violence, and he did it in one breathless sentence with zero punctuation. Here’s what he posted on X from @darrentill2: “Jake Paul little fat failed juice ed beat no one hiding his little juice chin and nakisa is a failed assistant for the ufc a failed receptionist at best bums bums bums”. The post doesn’t say what set him off, and Till didn’t stop to explain. He just swung at Paul and then turned on someone named Nakisa, dismissing them as a failed UFC assistant and, in a demotion I genuinely respect, “a failed receptionist at best” on top of that.
The triple bums closer is the part I can’t stop reading. That’s a man typing with his thumbs while still angry, and it’s the most honest trash talk you’ll see all week. No PR polish, no scripted beef. Pure Liverpool. Whether it turns into anything bigger than a post is up to the people he’s yelling at.
Jake Paul
The target of Till’s rant had the busiest post of the day by a mile, and it was the calmest thing on this list. Paul wrote “Good to be back. God is great” from @jakepaul, attaching a link and pulling 336 engagements, close to five times what Till’s shot drew. The post doesn’t spell out what he’s back from or back to. So you’ve got Till firing off a 32-word insult paragraph and Paul posting seven words about faith. Somebody’s winning the vibes battle, and it isn’t the guy yelling bums.
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Shinya Aoki
The Japanese legend got roasted by a sauna, and he admitted it. Aoki quote-posted a message from @HORIDAY119, a sauna account that said they’d shared an aufguss session with him and sent him a support message for his 12.31 MMA retirement fight, meaning Dec. 31. The account cheered him on with a nickname that translates to Mister Baka Survivor. His reply from @a_ok_i read “熱くて途中脱落。こんなんじゃ勝てない。” and roughly means it was too hot, he dropped out partway through, and he can’t win like this.
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That’s peak Aoki. A guy who has spent his whole career being gloriously weird is publicly questioning his retirement fight readiness because a hot room got the better of him. Honestly, a fighter who can’t finish an aufguss and says so out loud is more relatable than any training montage.
Israel Adesanya
Izzy’s in promo mode. He wrote “Always finding new levels” from @stylebender, plugging his sit-down with @Tradeify on The Funded Podcast, where he said he talked mindset, the road that got him here and what comes next. Then came the line that matters: “December 5th. Locked in” followed by an hourglass emoji and a fire emoji, and he left it there, with no detail in the post about what that date is. When Adesanya circles a date, people pay attention, so expect fans to spend the next few days trying to decode it.
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Georges St-Pierre
GSP is out here doing stand-up. He posted “I asked my barber to take me back to my prime. He said he charges by the inch” from @GeorgesStPierre, with a laughing emoji, a barber pole and a fist. On a day when everyone else was arguing about who’s washed, the greatest welterweight ever made a hairline joke at his own expense. Self-deprecation from a guy with that résumé lands harder than any callout.
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Amanda Serrano
Serrano didn’t take the bait on a rankings question, or at least that’s how her post reads. She wrote “I Refuse to Rate myself when the ones that really matter are my fans!” from @Serranosisters, adding that fans are “the ones that make us relevant” in her eyes. She called being “the greatest version of myself” her “Only true obsession” and signed off with “See yall soon” at the end. It’s a humble dodge, and that sign-off sure sounds like someone who knows when she’s next on the calendar.
Josh Barnett
The Warmaster is in a wrestling turf war. Fightful posted that GCW told the outlet Bloodsport was a GCW concept that Barnett was invited into years ago. Barnett fired back from @JoshLBarnett that this is “not even close to the whole story lol” and drew a hard line between his version and the Matt Riddle show. He said he was invited to work the first Riddle event and couldn’t, and that he only agreed to come aboard later if he called the shots, since the show carries his name above the title.
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His kicker was “Josh Barnett’s: Bloodsport is a 17 event show, over 7 years” and he went further, saying that beyond having no ropes and sharing the Bloodsport name, “nothing is the same or related” between the two. He also said that if he made a box set, the Riddle show wouldn’t be in it. That’s a former UFC heavyweight champ guarding his catalog like it’s the Criterion Collection, and GCW now has his receipts to answer.
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