No fighter has seen their stock soar quite like Pereira’s over the past few years as he’s gone from kickboxing champion to UFC go-to guy with titles in two divisions to his name. This Saturday, he sees a true test of his star power as he defends his light heavyweight belt against the dangerous, but lightly regarded Khalil Rountree in the main event of UFC 307. Should “Poatan” put on another legend-building performance, does another marquee matchup await him?
UFC 307 also sees the return of the polarizing Julianna Peña as she challenges bantamweight champion Raquel Pennington. The immediate implications of this grudge match are clear, but could the result of the co-main event—and a key undercard matchup between Kayla Harrison and Ketlen Vieira—also coax women’s MMA GOAT Amanda Nunes back into action?
MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Alexander K. Lee, and Damon Martin ponder these questions ahead of Saturday’s card at Delta Center in Salt Lake City.
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1. What’s next for Alex Pereira with a win on Saturday?
Martin: Champ-champ status.
That’s not the answer Magomed Ankalaev wants to hear as the rightful No. 1 contender in the light heavyweight division, but the reality is Pereira has bailed out the UFC so many times in 2024 that he should get his wish for whatever he wants next and it certainly seems like he’s chasing gold in another division. Pereira already stated that he plans to go back down to 185 pounds for some inexplicable reason to challenge Dricus du Plessis for his middleweight title. That actually seems like a bad idea, but if that’s what Pereira wants, so be it.
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The more interesting challenge lies at heavyweight where Pereira could potentially make Jon Jones put off his retirement for one more fight if he gets through Stipe Miocic at UFC 309. Pereira has to know that facing Jones would be the biggest, most meaningful, and most lucrative fight available to him in the UFC. Outside of Conor McGregor fighting again, Pereira vs. Jones might actually be the most promotable fight the UFC could stage.
There’s also a world where Pereira can’t keep Jones from calling it a career so he challenges Tom Aspinall instead and there’s another marquee matchup in the heavyweight division. Either way, Pereira gets to call his shot and that means either middleweight or heavyweight in his immediate future.
Heck: Whatever the hell he wants.
While it’s not as much of a story this time around, Pereira has stepped in to save the UFC again here. With all due respect to Pennington and Peña, that just isn’t the main event Salt Lake City is paying for. And as worthy of a challenger as Rountree is, it’s Pereira that is—to quote the legend Jon Anik—the man with whom this card is built around.
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One way or another, this fight is going to be electric. There’s no way it will be boring, or bad, or a slog in any way. The many, many fans who complained about the UFC 306 main event between Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O’Malley will feel the exact opposite when this fight is over. Either Pereira obliterates Rountree in seven minutes or less to move to 3-0, or we get another absolutely stunning card ender.
My guess is the former, and the options are aplenty. Could Pereira fight Magomed Ankalaev if he’s victorious at UFC 308? Yeah, and I’d be down for that one. Would middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis be an option? Sure seems like it. Plus, there’s that chance at history, and winning a third belt. I know Jon Jones is saying his fight with Stipe Miocic will likely be his last, but I don’t believe that for a second if Pereira wins on Saturday. I’d be willing to bet a couple of weeks worth of Dunkin’ coffees that Jones calls Pereira out if they both win. But whatever Pereira, himself, decides to do next, he would get.
Lee: Tommy Aspinall, come on down!
No, Aspinall doesn’t bring the historical significance of Jon Jones or Stipe Miocic and yes, Magomed Ankalaev is the rightful challenger at 205 pounds (assuming he beats Aleksandar Rakic, which I am). The problem is that Pereira has as much leverage as anyone right now and he deserves to take advantage of it. That means calling for a heavyweight title opportunity. And that means Pereira vs. Aspinall.
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Jones and Stipe, enjoy your little title fight at Madison Square Garden. The atmosphere is going to be electric and if we do see a double retirement, I’ll shed a tear or two. I’m not made of stone. But I’m not overly sentimental either and I’ll be ready to move on by Sunday morning, which means elevating Aspinall to undisputed status (he’s already the No. 1 heavyweight as far as the real rankings are concerned) and setting him up against Pereira, who will be waiting for the call after dispatching Rountree.
The UFC’s gears grind more efficiently than ever these days, so Dana White and co. will gratefully give Jones and Miocic their gift basket and send them on their way before booking Pereira vs. Aspinall for sometime in the first half of 2025.
As the kids say, “Chama!”
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2. What outcome at UFC 307 could lead to Amanda Nunes making a comeback?
Lee: Uh, is it bad form to say there isn’t one?
Not to be the turd in the punch bowl right off the bat, but I grow increasingly confident with each passing day that Nunes’ #MMARetirement is one that will actually stick. Don’t get me wrong, I was with pretty much everyone else when she hung up the gloves 15 months ago (feels longer than that, doesn’t it?) in thinking that she was simply taking a well-deserved break while also leaving the door open for new challengers to emerge.
That scenario hasn’t exactly played out, with Raquel Pennington—an opponent Nunes crushed at UFC 224—becoming the first post-Nunes champion and Kayla Harrison not making her UFC debut until this past April. Oh, Julianna Peña is still around, too.
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The mix just doesn’t feel quite right for a Nunes comeback. Not only was Nunes’ first fight with Pennington decisive, the two are friends and not in any rush to square off again. Harrison should go after the UFC title with a win Saturday, not chase after an inactive fighter. Oh, Julianna Peña is still around, too.
Then there’s the possibility that Ketlen Vieira upsets Harrison, and if that happens? Let’s just say that in the jungle, the mighty jungle, “The Lioness” will sleep well tonight.
Martin: A couple of Tetris pieces have to fall in place for Nunes to take another step towards her return to the octagon.
First up, Harrison needs to go full Kennedy Blades and just launch Vieira across the octagon and demolish her — as most expect the two-time Olympic gold medalist to do. Then Pennington needs to successfully defend her title by dispatching Peña in the co-main event to set up a future fight against Harrison.
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You might be thinking wouldn’t Peña winning make Nunes more interested after they split a pair of past fights? Wouldn’t a trilogy to settle the score with Peña convince Nunes to come back?
Here’s the thing: Nunes loathes Peña and never giving her the satisfaction of a third fight probably means more to the women’s GOAT than actually beating Peña up again. But playing the long game to set up a potential showdown against a former teammate in Harrison — assuming she beats Pennington to become champion — might be just the trick to get Nunes’ attention.
Nunes and Harrison were once friends and trained under the same coaches at American Top Team in Florida. Nunes eventually split with the gym and started doing her own thing, but some comments she made about her former team didn’t sit well with Harrison. That immediately sparks a rivalry and the potential for a massive fight — both factors that could play a part in Nunes deciding to come back.
Heck: Directly? Absolutely nothing that happens on Saturday brings Nunes back to the octagon, but momentum likely moves forward towards it happening.
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I’m not here to mince words, Ketlen Vieira beating Kayla Harrison would be one of the most shocking results of the year in MMA, and there’s a real case it would be the most shocking. Harrison likely runs over Vieira to set her up for the winner of the title fight between Pennington and Peña.
Now, if Pennington wins, she’ll likely play the, ‘I’m ready for whoever the UFC gives me’ card, or directly just say that she’s ready for Harrison. What else can she do? If Peña regains the title, she’ll call for Nunes — which will go over so silently, you’ll be able to hear a pin drop in the highly elevated arena. I also could see her calling for a rematch with once-again flyweight queen Valentina Shevchenko. Neither will happen, and she’d have no choice but to fight Harrison.
After Harrison gets her shot, then we can revisit.
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3. Which veteran fighter needs a win the most on the undercard?
Heck: Easy, one of the top-5 fighters of all-time — Jose Freaking Aldo. After completing his previous UFC contract at UFC 301 in May, Aldo elected to remain with the organization. And in his first fight under the new deal, he gets to fight in elevation, in the same place where he was booked in the worst piece of matchmaking in UFC bantamweight history when he lost to Merab Dvalishvili. He should’ve fought for the belt, end of story.
But I digress.
Aldo now faces Mario Bautista, who is on a nice run, but to go from Jonathan Martinez to Mario Bautista is not the kind of leap up the ladder of the rankings, or name value most were looking for. If Aldo wins, a big fight awaits — maybe even with the likes of a Cory Sandhagen, or, perhaps, Sean O’Malley. A loss would pretty much put an end to Aldo’s hopes to win a second divisional title, and likely lead to a booking against another 135-pounder on a win streak that not a lot of people know about.
It makes all the sense in the world for Buckley to use that impressive physique of his to wrestle Thompson to the mat for three rounds and leave Salt Lake City with a decision and another absurd callout in hand. Time waits for no man, and the streaking Buckley is on the cusp of becoming a genuine threat to challenge for UFC gold if he beats Thompson, a two-time title challenger.
And that’s why Thompson needs to take care of business, so we don’t have to hear Buckley call out Belal Muhammad. So we don’t have to hear how he’s more deserving of a championship opportunity than Shavkat Rakhmonov, Jack Della Maddalena, Sean Brady, Ian Machado Garry, or any other number of talents that are ahead of him in the pecking order. Where they should be.
Thompson is apparently not considering retirement, so win or lose he should be fine. It’s the rest of us that might consider taking a break from MMA if we have to hear Buckley deliver another eye-rolling post-fight promo.
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Martin: Maybe this ends up as an unpopular answer, but Carla Esparza winning her final fight would be a feel-good moment for UFC 307.
Because she was never the loudest fighter or the flashiest competitor scoring dramatic finishes, Esparza’s long list of accomplishments kind of get swept under the rug. But Esparza was a pioneer for the strawweight division after she became the first-ever 115-pound champion for Invicta FC. Injuries to both her and her potential opponents prevented Esparza from defending her belt and she eventually left the all-women promotion to sign with the UFC where she was made the No. 1 seed on season 20 of The Ultimate Fighter, which featured a tournament to crown the company’s inaugural strawweight champion.
Esparza won that as well after mauling Rose Namajunas in the finals. She lost the title to Joanna Jedrzejczyk one fight later, but through trials, tribulations, wins and losses, Esparza somehow got back to the belt seven years later when she beat Namajunas again to become a two-time UFC champion.
Heading into UFC 307, Esparza announced her matchup against Tecia Penningtonwould be the final fight of her career. It’s so rare that a former champion like Esparza goes out on a win with a happy memory to leave behind. Esparza getting her hand raised before riding off into the sunset would be the perfect bookend to her Hall of Fame career.
New UFC middleweight Torrez Finney is a big fan of The Rock.
Finney earned a contract after becoming the first fighter to earn three wins on Dana White’s Contender Series, picking up a first-round TKO of Abdellah Er-Ramy at DWCS Season 8, Week 8. Throughout his MMA career, the 25-year-old would sign off his post-fight interviews by paying homage to The Rock’s famous WWE tagline, “If you smell what The Rock is cooking,” by changing it too, “If you can smell what Torrez is cooking.”
Growing up playing pro wrestler on the back yard trampoline, it was meant to be.
“Well, I’m a big professional wrestling fan,” Finney told MMA Fighting. “I’m big into WWE, obviously, even AEW. I’ve watched those things. Now I don’t watch them as religiously as I used to growing up. But growing up, man, with all my cousins, we used to get on the trampoline. If anybody knows anything about [that], the trampoline is the WWE ring for a lot of kids. And when they tell you not to do those things at home, we surely did not listen.
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“So we did all of that stuff at home and we’re there on the trampoline jumping up and down. We do all WWE moves, and I think that’s a part of, a little bit, what helps me be able to speak in that promo type way. We used to do that. We used to have our toy mic and we’re like, ‘Man, I’m coming on your birthday, and I’m coming to take that belt — when I have that belt with me and all my cousins and we were playing like that.”
Finney was a baby when The Rock, real name Dwayne Johnson, was making his initial run in the sports entertainment juggernaut. But with multiple returns to WWE, Finney got to experience the confidence and star-power Johnson would exude on the microphone.
So when it came to fighting for his first MMA amateur title, Finney knew exactly what to do once he got the opportunity.
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“I’m a big fan of The Rock now, my favorite wrestler is The Undertaker,” Finney said. “I’m a big Undertaker fan, but I love The Rock. I love his promo cutting and I would just sit there and watch that and I used to do some of that type of stuff in high school. … But when I was getting into fighting, I said, ‘Man, I need to think of something [to say],’ and it was my second amateur fight. I won the title and one of my friends was like, what you gonna say after the fight? And I said, ‘I got something. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to do this.’
“[After] my second amateur fight, I said, ‘I’ve been wanting to do this my entire life,’ and I go ‘If you can smell,’ and I said, ‘what the champ is cooking,’ because I was a champion at that time.”
Since then, “The Punisher” has gone on to win all 10 of his pro bouts, including his first two outings on Contender Series. After finishing Yuri Panerov in October 2023, Dana White elected not to award Finney a contract, asking him to get more experience first. Finney returned in August to win a decision against Cam Rowston, where White ripped Finney saying that he would get “absolutely decimated” in the UFC.
Finney has always remained true to himself. As the wins kept piling him, so was the excitement for his post-fight interviews. When he makes his eventual octagon debut, Finney may have the chance to say his signature after the biggest moment of his professional life.
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“I just kept it rolling because kids and people was like, ‘Man, I’ve been looking forward to that,’” Finney explained. ”They look forward to that, ‘If you can smell.’ I even have fans, they look forward to that, ‘If you can smell what Torrez is cooking.’
“So it’s really cool man. And yeah, it’s funny like how the stuff you would do as a kid is now being gravitated and translated to what you do as an adult now.”
Manchester United prepare a move for Randal Kolo Muani, Real Madrid are targeting Arsenal’s William Saliba, while Chelsea remain interested in Victor Osimhen.
Manchester United have prepared a £58.6m offer for Paris St-Germain’s 25-year-old France forward Randal Kolo Muani. (Fichajes, via Teamtalk), external
Real Madrid want to sign Arsenal and France defender William Saliba as a “top priority” in 2025, with Los Blancos already in contact with the 23-year-old. (Le 10 Sport – in French), external
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Galatasaray will look to make Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen’s loan move from Napoli permanent, while Chelsea remain interested. However, the 25-year-old will cost £68m in January or £63m next summer. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian), external
Manchester City are considering Porto goalkeeper Diogo Costa, 25, as a replacement for Ederson, but the Portugal stopper will cost £63m. (Caught Offside), external
Manchester United have made Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell, 27, a top target for January. (Teamtalk, external)
Spain midfielder Martin Zubimendi has reiterated his desire to stay at Real Sociedad despite speculation of interest from Manchester City. (Mirror), external
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Crystal Palace will step up their pursuitof Hammarby’s 18-year-old Ivorian forward Bazoumana Toure, who is also of interest to Manchester United and Celtic. (Give Me Sport) , external
Arsenal will still target a striker in the January transfer window, despite the promising start to the season made by Germany forward Kai Havertz, 25. (Football Insider), external
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk, 33, is next in line for a new contract after the club secured the long-term future of France centre-back Ibrahima Konate, 25. (Teamtalk, external)
Arsenal, Tottenham and Newcastle United are all interested in Aston Villa’s 23-year-old England youth midfielder Jacob Ramsey. (Give Me Sport), external
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Newcastle might sell England striker Callum Wilson, 32, in January to facilitate a move for a new forward. (Football Insider), external
Marseille are in advanced talks to sign France midfielder Paul Pogba, 31, who can play again from March after a four-year ban for a doping offence was reduced to 18 months. (Mirror), external
LAS VEGAS – Brandon Royval always seems to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that was the case again one week prior to his UFC Fight Night 244 main event.
Ahead of Saturday’s flyweight headliner against Tatsuro Taira (16-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas (ESPN+), former title challenger Royval (16-7 MMA, 6-3 UFC) attended UFC 307 in Salt Lake City to help corner his good friend and teammate Alexander Hernandez, who defeated Austin Hubbard by unanimous decision in a short-notice affair.
Following his victory, Hernandez revealed to reporters backstage that his day had been traumatic. He was taking a fight-morning walk with his team and they encountered a dangerous situation in the form of a fatal shooting. According to a Salt Lake City Police Department report, the suspect, since arrested and identified as 49-year-old Farshad Hassan-Puori, allegedly shot and killed 30-year-old Gage Barrow.
Royval was part of the group with Hernandez when the incident unfolded, and according to Hernandez, it was Royval who actually ran toward the danger and “chased down the shooter,” but to no avail.
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A week later, Royval said he’s not overly keen to relive the experience. However, he admits it was a lot to endure, and he’s particularly proud of Hernandez for being able to compartmentalize and still go into the octagon and win at UFC 307 that same day.
“I don’t really care to talk about it too much because someone died, but at the end of the day, there was a shooting that happened in Utah,” Royval told MMA Junkie and other reporters at Wednesday’s media day. “It happened pretty much right in front of us. I guess the only thing that matters at the end of the day is we’ve seen some crazy sh*t. Alex had locked in. Won his fight. Kudos to him on that, and it’s a lot to deal with first thing in the morning. It was like 11 a.m. My boy had to report a couple hours later and pretty much anything that could go wrong on that walk, did go wrong.”
Considering he is a professional fighter, Royval isn’t exactly in the business of self-preservation. He said danger and drama seem to be routine occurrences in his life, and that’s the only explanation he could give about deciding to run toward the shooter and crime scene rather than flee for safety.
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“I can’t really speak to anybody or speak to anybody else, but I felt like I’ve found myself in a lot of sh*tty situations, and I’ve been around a lot of sh*t that happens,” Royval said. “I feel like I’m a little bit of a sh*t magnet. So I’m not really unfamiliar with some weird sh*t like that. But not necessarily a shooting like that, but I did CPR like a week before on another dude in a car accident. So it’s been a crazy month. I would stay as far away from me as possible to be completely honest. It’s been a crazy month. I’ve been threatened by crackheads, done CPR, been in a car accident, and the f*cking shooting and seeing someone die. Anyways. Probably stay away from me this week.”
One person who won’t be able to stay away from Royval all week is Taira, because they will be locked in the octagon for five scheduled rounds with significant title stakes in the 125-pound division. Royval is ready for it and prepared for a grueling, brutal battle.
“When it’s fight time, we’re actually going to go for it,” Royval said. “You’re going to see two killers try to kill.”
Now, Royval will face Tatsuro Taira in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 98 fight card at the UFC APEX. “Raw Dawg” says the fight with the former RIZIN bantamweight champion excited him, but if he was going to make the 10,000-mile trek, it needed to be worth his while.
“They offered me that fight in Australia,” Royval told MMA Fighting. “I asked them for more money, I asked for a handful of stuff, and they said no. And then I asked them for one of any of those things, and they said no. And I was like, all right, well, then I’m not gonna go f*cking fight some dude, not in the UFC, for not much money, all the way across the [world] where I’m not getting any sleep. I’m not getting any of this, I’m not getting a guaranteed title shot, I’m not getting any more money.
“I got to bring my whole team out there if I’m going to go out there because I need to get my Arcadian rhythm in cycle. So it’s like I got to fly out my whole team and guys that look like Kai Asakura. So it was one of those [things where] financially [it] doesn’t make sense to me. And then it also, like, the risk doesn’t [exceed] the reward. If I go out there and lose, I just lost somebody without a ranking, and if I go out there and win, they’re not guaranteeing me a title shot or anything. So there was really no reward in that.”
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The 32-year-old Royval is set to make his 10th octagon appearance, and does so in his second consecutive Fight Night headliner. In December Royval came up short in his first opportunity at UFC gold, losing a unanimous decision to Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 296. With his future unknown following the loss, Royval jumped on the opportunity to face past opponent Brandon Moreno on short notice in the main event of UFC Mexico City, and went on to get the victory via split decision.
With well over four years in the promotion, and being the UFC’s current top-ranked 125-pounder, Royval has learned, and understood, that when you’re in that position, the juice needs to be worth the squeeze — even for a fan-friendly fight against Asakura.
“Dude, I think of myself like, bro, I’m a prostitute for sure,” Royval explained. “I put my body on the line for money. But it’s at this point [that] I f*cking earned my No. 1 spot. I fought my ass off. I’m No. 1 in the world. So I’m an expensive prostitute. I’m not a cheap ass prostitute anymore. I’m not just selling my body to anybody who we’ll take it.
“I f*cking I got a price on me, and I’m not just f*cking anybody, you know what I’m saying? I still believe in my heart of hearts I’m the most exciting fighter in the flyweight division. Anytime my fights haven’t been exciting, It wasn’t because of me.”
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Asakura signed with the UFC earlier this year following a stoppage win over former Bellator champ Juan Archuleta at RIZIN 45 this past New Year’s Eve. The 30-year-old has still yet to make his promotional debut.
Should he defeat Taira on Saturday, Royval would love to get his chance to avenge the loss to the champion. But if not, he would love to face Asakura, and maybe do so if the UFC returns to Japan in 2025.
“I don’t know, I really don’t know,” Royval said. “I want to fight for a belt. But that being said is like, if they’re not gonna give me a belt and it’s like, I think I have a win over the whole top five of the division, I don’t know what else you guys want, motherf*cker.
“But damn, yeah, I kinda wanna fight Kai Asakura in Japan. Japan is a dream. Kai Asakura is sick. That gets me out of bed, and I want to fight for a f*cking belt. If they want to hype Kai, then I want to take that.”
According to Gaethje’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, McGregor has said no to fighting Gaethje on five different occasions in past years. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) and Gaethje (25-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) have traded barbs in the past but never fought each other.
“He (McGregor) got offered this fight at least five times,” Abdelaziz told Submission Radio. “He never wanted to have to do anything with Justin Gaethje. He said the reason he didn’t want to fight Justin was because Justin talked bad to him on Twitter and Instagram before, and the history we have with him. He didn’t want to lose to our team, I guess.
“Even the UFC told me this. ‘Hey, leave him alone. Don’t talk with him. He doesn’t like to fight people who talk bad to him on the internet. I promise you. He likes to be the one to start the talk and you retaliate.’ Why do you think (Michael) Chandler’s being so nice to him? Why? Because he was being told not to talk bad to Conor.”
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White was asked about those allegations, and based on his history with McGregor, the UFC CEO doesn’t think that’s something he would do. White recounted the time McGregor agreed to fight Chad Mendes on short notice after Jose Aldo pulled out of their UFC 189 fight due to a broken rib.
”I don’t know if that’s true,” White said Tuesday during the Dana White’s Contender Series 75 post-fight news conference at the UFC Apex. “I’ve said this many times, and I’ll say it again: I mean, we actually have video footage of Lorenzo and I walking into his house that he (McGregor) was renting here. He just woke up, telling him that the fight fell out, and he’s literally leaving going, ‘Well, I’m going to train, let me know who I’m fighting when I get back.’ We’ve never had those kind of issues with Conor McGregor ever.”
McGregor is yet to return since breaking his leg in a TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in July 2021. He was booked to face Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in June but withdrew due to a broken pinky toe. Chandler has since moved on and is scheduled to rematch Charles Oliveira in the UFC 309 co-main event on Nov. 16 in New York.
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Former Republic of Ireland striker Stephanie Zambra has announced her retirement from football.
The 35-year-old won 58 Republic of Ireland caps and scored 14 international goals.
Under her maiden name Roche, she went viral in 2013 after scoring a superb goal for Peamount United against Wexford Youths.
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The goal, which saw her twice flick the ball before volleying it into the top corner, saw her finish second in the Puskas Award the following year behind Colombia’s James Rodriguez.
After featuring for a number of clubs in the Republic of Ireland, Zambra had stints with ASPTT Albi in France, Houston Dash in the USA, Sunderland and Fiorentina.
She returned home in 2020 with Peamount and signed for Shamrock Rovers in 2022.
Her final match will be Shamrock Rovers’ final league game of the season against Shelbourne on Saturday.
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“From kicking a ball around the streets of Shanganagh Cliffs to scoring goals for my country, I can truly say that football has given me enough memories to last a lifetime,” Zambra posted on social media.
“I hope that I’ve been able to inspire girls and show that dreams can come true with a bit of luck, lot of persistence and the self belief that you are good enough to become the best version of yourself.”
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