“Nice to see Dan get TKO'd after the sh*t he was chatting. He probably enjoyed me losing last week; that was probably a generational hate watch for him. I never got finished, though”

– via his YouTube channel, reacting to the UFC 325 result of Dan Hooker

“The one thing that has made me laugh, though, is I did say before the fight I wanted to make his face look different, and for a couple of days, he made my face look different... as you can see now, it's a week later, there is nothing wrong with me. The only thing's wrong with me is [that] I probably got a scratched cornea or something like that”

– via his YouTube channel, reflecting on his appearance following the five round war with Justin Gaethje at UFC 324.

“The only thing that's wrong with me is my eyeballs, from fingernails scratching my eyeballs. Hopefully we can run it back because there's a couple things in that fight that pissed me off”

– via his YouTube channel, addressing the eye poke controversy from his interim title loss to Justin Gaethje at UFC 324.

“I'm all good no injuries, went into the fight feeling amazing... no excuses the better man won on the night @justin_gaethje... Hopefully we can run it back for the undisputed because I still know it's in my destiny to win that gold”

– via Instagram, breaking his silence after his five—round war at UFC 324.