MMA News Round-Up: Dana White Shuts Down Journalist, Jorge Masvidal Reveals UFC 287 Gameplan, Shavkat Rakhmonov in Trouble

With the UFC 287 knocking at the door, it’s evident that the MMA world will have quite a lot of eye-catching happenings every day. The previous 24 hours weren’t an exception to this. From Dana White’s somewhat unexpected step to the UFC Welterweight, Shavkat Rakhmonov, facing the wrath of a part of the online population. The last day also contained a number of exciting incidents. Hence, we are here once more with our MMA news roundup to update you with a few notable MMA world incidents from the previous day.

Starting off with Dana White’s rather unusual behavior with a journalist, we’ll also know what the upcoming UFC 287 co-main eventer, Jorge Masvidal, had to say about his rival’s game. We’ll end today’s edition after taking a look at how the known UFC Welterweight, Shavkat Rakhmonov, was criticized by a part of the online population for his recent act depicting animal brutality.

Dana White turned off a journalist after getting agitated by his questions

The two UFC 287 main-card fighters, Jorge Masvidal and Kevin Holland got into an altercation at the UFC 287 pre-bout press conference. A reporter brought out this topic into the press conference as well and asked Masvidal about it. However, after a few arguments from the on-stage Masvidal and Holland, the boss, White, shut this topic off as he silenced the reporter who had another question about the same issue.

White stated, “Guys, come on, these two aren’t even fighting. Knock it off. Do you have a question about the fight who these guys are fighting or do you just want to start s*** in here? What’s your question?” as he moved to take questions from another reporter.

It was evident that White wanted the discussion to be strictly about the fights present on the card.

Jorge Masvidal pointed out a few flaws in his opponent Gilbert Burns’ game

The ‘BMF’ of the UFC was all set to turn the tables after being on a miserable 3-fight losing streak. Recently, Masvidal appeared on the noted, Michael Bisping’s podcast on his YouTube channel where he revealed a few flaws in his opponent, Gilbert Burns’ game. Masvidal also intended to capitalize on them and achieve victory.

‘Gamebred’ firstly stated, “He does a lot of mistakes and constantly you know. He eats with his chin up often you know. So I just gotta show up and do my job and he’s gotta give it to me”.

He further continued, “He just wants the fight not to be on the feet as hard he might throw in all that stuff. He feels so uncomfortable on the feet and this is where I’m most comfortable at. So I just got to let him do the work for me.”

It was understandable that Masvidal had spotted a weakness in an such area of Burns’ game, where he was at his best. But, will he be able to capitalize on it inside the octagon?

Shavkat Rakmonov faced online outrage after posting an animal abuse snap

It was just a few days back that the ‘Dagestani UFC mascot’ Hasbulla received massive criticism for allegedly ‘beating’ his pet cat. But this time, it was the turn of the noted UFC Welterweight, Shavkat Rakhmonov, to take some heat from the online community. The ’28-year-old Kazakh native’ had been in an altercation with Khamzat Chimaev not too long ago.

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A lot of UFC fans also know that Chimaev uses the nickname ‘Borz’ to identify himself. It actually means ‘Wolf’ in his native Chechnyan language. Recently, Rakhmonov crossed all limits as he set up a shocking video as his Instagram story. It showcased a masked individual abusing a wolf disturbingly, which probably he had killed himself.

It was understandable that the story was a jibe toward Chimaev, but ‘the Kazakh’ was subjected to a lot of criticism by the ones who got to know about this incident. Many would agree that Rakhmonov’s previously decent reputation might have taken a hit due to this act as well.

Some more MMA news

• Noted UFC two-division fighter Jessica Andrade is all set to take on the Chinese, Yan Xiaonan, at the stage of UFC 288
• Alex Pereira won’t be giving a title shot to Khamzat Chimaev if he defends it successfully at UFC 287.