Joshua Van
Manel Kape threw the first punch on X, telling Van to spend his time working on defense or ask the UFC for a helmet, then promising to do “some serious damage to that pea head.” Van’s reply, posted from @JoshuaVanBT, was short and loud: “Shut yo ass up! Make weight n show up!” He followed it with “I better not hear another toes injury bs again.”
Van never spelled out the toe backstory, but the message is obvious. He thinks Kape has an exit ramp ready, and he’s calling it out before fight week can get weird. Nearly 5,000 engagements says the flyweight beef is real, and nobody has to manufacture it for a face-off. Van went straight for the scale and the medical file instead of trading insults about looks, which is the meanest kind of trash talk because it’s about whether the other guy even shows up.
Tenshin Nasukawa
Tenshin (@TeppenTenshin) announced the venue map and timetable for this year’s Tenshin Festival, set for Matsudo Central Park on Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday, Nov. 1, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. both days. He thanked the many people helping make the event happen, said he’s doing it purely to deliver love and excitement to everyone, and asked fans to come in costume on the 31st. He also told people to come only if they’re there to have fun, which is the most Tenshin way possible to promote a Halloween block party.
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Danny Sabatello
RIZIN posted the lineup for its RIZIN 55 open workout on Oct. 27 in Tokyo. Flyweight champion Makoto Shinryu and challenger Tony Laramie are on the list (Laramie joining by Zoom), along with Naoki Inoue, who the promotion says is vowing revenge on champion Sabatello ahead of a next challenger decider. Sabatello (@ShockThisWorld) responded in Japanese, telling fans not to worry and writing that he knows Inoue and Tirenov are boring but that the king, written as 王, will make the fight exciting. Bold move to call a guy chasing revenge boring in his own language. That’s villain work, and I respect it.
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Conor McGregor
A betting account asked for Ballon d’Or 2026 predictions, and McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) actually answered: “1.Kylian mbappe 2.Harry Kane 3.Lamine Yamal 4.khavaskilia 5.Micheal Olise.” The spelling at No. 4 looks like the keyboard tapped out mid-sentence, and Olise’s first name didn’t fare much better. Somewhere a fan who wanted a fight announcement is staring at a soccer top five instead.
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Itsuki Hirata
Hirata (@itsuki_h) posted the NEW emoji, a heart and a link with no further caption. That’s the whole post. The engagement numbers suggest her followers clicked anyway.
Shinya Aoki
Aoki (@a_ok_i) wrote in Japanese that when he labeled something a magnificent display of slander, people with rich imaginations interpreted it however suited them and responded with what he called 投糞, a pun that swaps the character in the word for posting with one meaning dung. He didn’t say what started it. The wordplay gives away exactly what he thinks of his replies, though.
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Aljamain Sterling
The UFC 333 judging fight is still going. Ben Davis (@BenTheBaneDavis) called Sterling one of the most biased, pro-Merab voices around and said his opinion on the card was silly. Sterling fired back: “Please, elaborate. Which part is silly? Is it silly that everything in RD 3 from Merab is erased for the body kick moment at :45sec mark? Is it silly to think hitting someone repeatedly does “damage” compared to one big shot that doesn’t even put you down?” He closed with “Friends or not, these are valid arguments. But explain.”
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Sterling’s argument is a real scoring question: should accumulated volume count for more than one big moment that doesn’t drop anybody? He’s arguing that a single body kick at the 45-second mark of Round 3 shouldn’t wipe out everything Merab did after it. Davis now has to show his work, and Sterling clearly isn’t letting go until he does.
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