Jon Jones
A fan account, @SchianoLover, tagged Jones with the line “@JonnyBones Reyes speaking down on you goat,” and Jones (currently going by the display name Jonny Meat, which is its own story) could not let it slide. He fired back on X: “Send this to him, I’m giving you a virtual hug. I hope one day you heal from such a defeat. Close but no cigar. Sweat more, pass that on to the next generation.”
This is vintage Jones trolling, the kind where every sentence sounds polite until you read it twice. Offering a guy a virtual hug while telling him to heal from a loss is the online equivalent of patting someone on the head after you beat them. The close but no cigar line is Jones openly admitting the fight was tight while still planting the flag. The source post doesn’t tell us what Reyes actually said, so we only have Jones’s half of this, but his half is loud enough to fill the room. I love a villain who answers a fan tag like it’s a press conference podium.
Conor McGregor
McGregor posted two words and a link on X: “Flying knee.” That’s it. There’s no caption and no context in the text, only a man who has turned the art of the vague post into a full-time job.
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He’s the biggest name on this list after Jones, and he’s doing the least work. Two words from Conor still draw more eyeballs than most fighters’ entire fight week, which is exactly why he keeps doing it.
Aljamain Sterling
Alan Jouban posted “That’s going to be a great pic @funkmasterMMA,” and Sterling quote-posted him with “Two warriors.” Whatever the photo is, both guys clearly think it’s a keeper.
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This one is wholesome, which makes it the palate cleanser of the day after Jones’s passive-aggressive hug. Funk hyping up a picture with Jouban is about as low-stakes as fight Twitter gets, and honestly we need a few of those.
Gaston (Tonga) Reyno
The Spanish-language broadcaster and analyst posted on X: “Con estas actuaciones de Volkanovski , ahora se valora mucho más lo ENORME que fue aquella Performance de Topuria.” Roughly translated, he’s saying Alexander Volkanovski’s recent performances make Ilia Topuria’s big night look even more impressive in hindsight.
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That’s a sharp angle, and it’s the kind of take that ages well. When the guy you beat keeps looking elite afterward, your win gets a little bigger every time he steps in there. The capital letters on ENORME tell you how strongly Reyno feels about it.
Syuri
Stardom star Syuri marked 18 years since her pro wrestling debut, writing that she’s now entering her 19th year. In a heartfelt post on X, she said the happy moments and the frustrating ones all shaped who she is, promised to keep charging down the path she believes in so she lives without regrets, and thanked the people who support her.
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Eighteen years in any combat-adjacent business is a long haul. Her post was all gratitude with zero trash talk, and she signed it off with #stardom and #GE.
Gary Goodridge
The former PRIDE heavyweight dropped a short one on X: “Wisdom is expensive. You paid for it. Use it.” No context, no tag, only a fortune cookie with knuckles.
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Coming from a guy who spent his career in some of the wildest heavyweight fights ever booked, that line lands with a little extra weight. It reads like advice for anyone who just learned something the hard way.
Sekine (Shrek) Hideki
Sekine weighed in on X, in Japanese, about what looks like a throw clip making the rounds. His point: this happens all the time in judo, and it’s what you get when you relax your abs at the moment you’re thrown. He added that it’s rough if a heavy guy with a big weight advantage does it to you, but at the lighter weights you’d walk away with no damage.
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That’s a practical, slightly salty bit of grappling wisdom, and his blunt description of the heavyweight in the hypothetical as a fat guy is the funniest phrasing on the board today. Sekine sounds like a man who has been on the wrong end of that weight gap more than once.
