“I absolutely love Paddy Pimblett. Now, Justin Gaethje and I go a little bit further back... but Paddy Pimblett, he is a master orator, right? I get paid to talk; he's a better talker than me, right? Conor McGregor is the guy that, I think, all talkers will be judged by. You can ask Paddy Pimblett any question, and you're getting an authentic, thoughtful, and comedic response that is magnetic and dynamic. I'm all about the guy. I don't want to hear anything about his candidacy here. He's 7—0 in the UFC and 3/1 favorite to beat Justin... The kid's done everything in the right way”

– via Spinning Back Fist MMA , defending the legitimacy of the UFC 324 main event and praising the rising stardom of Paddy Pimblett.

“Y'all must've forgot. We all must've forgot... I'm glad that he's [Makhachev] not making the weight cut. This man should be celebrated. We talk about Merab Dvalishvili being on a trajectory to be the greatest male mixed martial artist of all time, and he’s very much on a trajectory to unseat Georges St Pierre and anybody else you want to mention. So is Islam Makhachev. You saw how comfortable he was at 170 [pounds]? Now he's saying he could wrestle for 50 minutes?”

– reacts to Islam Makhachev's dominant win at UFC 322

“Y'all must've forgot. We all must've forgot... I'm glad that he's [Makhachev] not making the weight cut. This man should be celebrated. We talk about Merab Dvalishvili being on a trajectory to be the greatest male mixed martial artist of all time, and he’s very much on a trajectory to unseat Georges St Pierre and anybody else you want to mention. So is Islam Makhachev. You saw how comfortable he was at 170 [pounds]? Now he's saying he could wrestle for 50 minutes?”

– reacts to Islam Makhachev's dominant win at UFC 322