The Merab Dvalishvili brawl is still the loudest thing on fight X, and the reactions run from soap opera reviews to whatever Sean Strickland was doing at the time. Here’s the roundup, biggest storyline first.
Gaston Reyno
Reyno went full TV critic on the whole saga, writing on X (@gastonreyno): “HERMOSO FINAL para esta Telenovela protagonizada por Merab Dvalishvili y su amigo Saba 🤼👏🏻” For the non-Spanish speakers, he’s calling it a beautiful finale to a telenovela starring Merab and his buddy Saba, complete with wrestling and clapping emojis. Casting a brawl as a soap opera is the correct genre call, because nothing says daytime drama like two friends and a camera that keeps rolling.
Jake Shields
Shields kept the caption short and let the attachment do the talking, posting “My take on the Merab Brawl” on X (@jakeshieldsajj) with a link. The post itself doesn’t spell out where he lands, so I’m not going to put words in his mouth. What I will say is that a former welterweight title challenger filing an official position paper on a brawl tells you how far this thing has traveled.
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Renato Moicano
Moicano posted in Portuguese on X (@moicanoufc): “Maluco pegou 6 meses de tranca e vai pagar 80k dolar de multa! Se fosse no Brasil não tinha ido nem pra delegacia!” Roughly translated, some guy got six months locked up and an $80,000 fine, and Moicano says that in Brazil the dude wouldn’t have even made it to the police station. He doesn’t name who he’s talking about, so take the subject as unconfirmed, but the take is peak Moicano: a legal system comparison delivered at full volume. It also pulled the most engagement of any post on this list, at 2,698.
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Georges St-Pierre
GSP skipped the chaos entirely and went for nostalgia, writing on X (@GeorgesStPierre): “Almost 14 years since I fought Carlos Condit. I got dropped, got back up, and used everything I’d learned to come back and win. Still one of my proudest moments. 👊” While everybody else argues about a brawl, the GOAT candidate is quietly reminding you he once got put on the floor by Condit and still won. That’s the most GSP move possible, and honestly it’s the classiest post of the day by a mile.
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Sean Strickland
Strickland, as he does, opened a whole separate news cycle in his own head. His doomsday plan on X (@SStricklandMMA) is to “Get out of Vegas, find a low population area with a lot of deer,” then spend “6 months battling and killing for resources and then settle in with the survivors for the 1700s.” He capped it with a shopping list: “You should have a minimum of 1000 rounds of 223 or 308. And some body armor.” Nobody asked, nobody needed it, and I still read every word twice. The man is a one-person Fallout spinoff.
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Jake Paul
Jake Paul weighed in on something with zero connection to the Octagon, a scandal involving someone named Jensen and Nvidia. Paul’s argument on X (@jakepaul) is that Jensen should have just owned it with a quick tweet, and he even drafted one for him: “my bad was horny Nvidia to moon.” Do that, Paul says, and the story “would have been tossed away,” adding “When you act like a victim they treat you as one” and “Mf with $4 trillion was getting some top so what.” It’s a crisis PR seminar from the guy whose entire career is built on never apologizing, which is either deeply on brand or a cry for a guest spot on CNBC. Possibly both.
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Belal Muhammad
Belal posted the most wholesome line of the day, writing on X (@bullyb170): “The Bilal name is in good hands” alongside a link. The post doesn’t say who’s carrying the name forward, so I’ll leave the speculation to the replies. After a day full of brawls, jail talk and 308 ammo, a former welterweight champ handing out a family-name seal of approval is a nice palate cleanser.
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