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Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
- Video: Michael Chandler stuns UFC fans with staggering 40-pound weight gain after White House whooping: I can’t imagine cutting this much weight feels great at 40 years of age. One last hurrah versus Jim Miller or something and call it a career?
- Video: Sean Strickland wrestles, chokes out fan on Florida beach: Strickland engages with the fans more than most … just in a unique manner.
- Merab Dvalishvili blames eye pokes for Ilia Topuria’s bone-crushing loss to Justin Gaethje: ‘Ilia was fighting blind’: Justin Gaethje has an undeniable history of eye pokes. More on that in a minute …
Insomnia
Good luck to all the family and friends trying to get a refund here.
MMA fighter immediately taps because he crashed his motorcycle on the way to the fight
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— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch)
June 30, 2026
Like Chuck Liddell before him, Gaethje is not afraid to use his thumbs.
There is an old school dirty tactic which was known as "thumbing", where you use the thumb with the jab or right hand, and in the clinch.
I'd have to look into it more but here he's holding his thumb on the side of the fingers rather than across.
Whittman might teach this, who…
https://t.co/3i7eBiTLLIpic.twitter.com/r7A1uOEsgd
— Dan Mehmet (@Danmehmet_)
June 30, 2026
Big John McCarthy has been around forever and so naturally has lowlights of his own … but does he remain the gold standard?
Interesting post on MMA Reddit about referee point deductions in the UFC, with data going back to 2010.
https://t.co/ckxaqTIw8Wpic.twitter.com/YSO20RrFcm
— Ben Fowlkes (@benfowlkesMMA)
June 29, 2026
Cody Durden is still mad at Ode Osbourne over his UFC 329 pullout.
Ode is a wuss, that’s plain to see,
He packed up his bags and handed them to me.
The contract stayed signed, the date stayed the same,
Just swapped out the face, not the stakes of the game.
— Cody Durden (@Cody_Durden)
June 30, 2026
Imagine watching prime Cain Velasquez vs. up-and-coming Daniel Cormier absolutely throwing down at AKA — PPV quality sparring.
Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez talks about Daniel Cormier and their Battles at AKA gym
#MMA
@JaxxonPodcastpic.twitter.com/XOBAlVyDzD
— The MMA Archive (@TheUFCArchive)
June 29, 2026
The story of the Foreman grill is the stuff of legend.
George Foreman says he has made over $550,000,000 from his grill than his boxing career
‘I went from earning $5,000,000 on the rumble in the jungle against Muhammad Ali to making more than $200,000,000 of my name been on a kitchen grill’
‘There were months were I was been…
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— zaza (@zazaxbtt)
June 29, 2026
Prevent hair-pulling with this one simple trick.
Valter Walker com um conselho pro Michel Pereira
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— Kayron (@Kyron_NineIota)
June 29, 2026
If Leon Edwards continues to fight, someone on the level of Daniel Rodriguez feels like a reasonable (but not insulting) step back in competition.
D-Rod says he asked for the Leon Edwards fight and was ready to take it on international fight week, yet Leon’s team were ‘leaning towards another direction’
He plans to call Leon out if he beats Uros Medic
“Yeah bro, we wanted the fight, we asked for the fight. I guess on…
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— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight)
June 29, 2026
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Copying the McGregor back tat is certainly a choice, but this is a lovely switching lead hook.
India you have a McGregor, Dinesh Nain (7-2) gets the KO in R1
#LeminoShootoTORAO#Lemino修斗pic.twitter.com/s8CycVnQzj
— Half Dead Frank (@Halfdeadfrank69)
June 28, 2026
I can genuinely say I’ve never seen an arm triangle finished from this position.
holy crap
reverse darce in PFL last night
when someone tries to give their back to defend the arm triangle you can switch your support arm's grip
to punch down, flush with your opponent's back
weird grip that creates an unbelievably tight submission
first one I've seen in MMA
pic.twitter.com/RLp3eazwnV
— Open Note Grappling (@OpenNoteGrapple)
June 28, 2026
You gotta hook the leg, brother. Or let go.
BRUTAL SLAM KO. Justice Torres closes out Fury Challenger Series with a bang. Whoa.
#FuryCS16pic.twitter.com/WOxNkPCVb5
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman)
June 27, 2026
Random Land
High-level skateboarding at the X Games:
Juni Kung wins his first X Games gold with a nollie backside 270 heelflip to boardslide 270 out of the 12-stair handrail in
@monsterenergy Men’s Skateboard Street Best Trick at
@moonpay X Games Sacramento!
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— X Games (@XGames)
June 29, 2026
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