{"id":109008,"date":"2025-08-31T03:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:07:10","slug":"ufc-fighters-with-exciting-promo-skills-in-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109008\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fighters With Exciting Promo Skills In ’25"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC fighters, much like all other combat athletes, and by extension, sports entertainers, know that just winning isn\u2019t enough. They may be the best in the world, but athletic acumen alone doesn\u2019t make people put down the remote control and pay attention when the fights start on ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Much like in sports entertainment, they\u2019ve got to be able to cut a promo after the fight or give bulletin board material in the press between fights. Throwing verbal jabs can often be as vicious as the physical ones on a given Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Throughout the 30-plus years<\/a> that Dana White\u2019s promotion has been in existence, there have been a number of fighters whose sharp tongues have people wondering just what they\u2019re going to say next. Today, in that spirit, let\u2019s count them down.<\/p>\n

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\nBest Mike Skills in the UFC: No. 3: Colby Covington<\/p>\n

Both inside the fabled Octagon<\/a> and out, Colby Covington<\/a> (17-5 MMA, 12-5 UFC) has been quite the lightning rod for flippant, controversial comments. If we were to list the incendiary remarks \u201cChaos\u201d has made over the years, we would be here for the better part of the next week and we still wouldn\u2019t come anywhere close to identifying them all.<\/p>\n

Political leanings notwithstanding, when Covington gets some airtime after a win, it\u2019s bound to be an explosive minute or so of programming. A textbook example occurred during the immediate aftermath<\/a> of his September 2020 win vs. Tyron Woodley at the Apex facility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Upon making pointed remarks about athletes protesting racial and social injustices in the months following the murder of George Floyd, Covington promised a rude awakening for a fighter he had his eyes on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking of spineless cowards, Marty Fake Newsman (Kamaru Usman), we\u2019ve got unfinished business\u201d, he said. \u201cThere\u2019s nowhere to run, and there\u2019s nowhere to hide! I\u2019m coming for you!\u00a0You\u2019re next!\u201d<\/p>\n

Once Colby Covington\u2019s MMA career ends, there\u2019s one certainty: With microphone skills like his, he\u2019ll have quite the future in sports entertainment.<\/p>\n

Best Mike Skills in the UFC: No. 2: Chael Sonnen<\/p>\n

In at No. 2 in our countdown, we go to a legend of the sport, \u201cThe American Gangster\u201d, Chael Sonnen<\/a> (30-18-1 MMA, 7-7 UFC.) Sonnen, a former participant of\u00a0The Jim Rome Show\u2019s\u00a0annual \u201cSmackOff\u201d competition, wowed audiences by scoring a submission victory over Maurico Rua (27-14-1 MMA, 11-12-1 UFC) in August of 2013 during the promotion\u2019s initial broadcast on FS1.<\/p>\n

After the win, Sonnen used his airtime to bust some funky rhymes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the man of the hour, Joe. Too sweet to be sour,\u201d Sonnen rapped. \u201cWhat you see is what you get and what you don\u2019t is better yet. I\u2019m the women\u2019s pick, I\u2019m the men\u2019s regret, and if you bet against Chael Sonnen, you made a bad bet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sonnen has posted videos on MMA headlines to his YouTube channel in the years since his retirement from active competition inside the cage and co-hosts the\u00a0Good Guy, Bad Guy\u00a0podcast with Daniel Cormier every week. His microphone skills are still sharp now.<\/p>\n

Best Mike Skills in the UFC: No. 1: Conor McGregor<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t think our No. 1 entry in this countdown wouldn\u2019t be \u201cThe Notorious\u201d Conor McGregor<\/a>, you\u2019d be dead wrong. How couldn\u2019t this be the case?<\/p>\n

While McGregor has gone back and forth about whether to make a return to the fabled Octagon for an anticipated July 4, 2026 card on The White House grounds<\/a> in Washington, DC, this is a man who\u2019s proven to be most explosive when he gets near a microphone.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, his now-legendary Octagon interview<\/a> from UFC 205.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve ridiculed everyone on the roster,\u201d McGregor said to Joe Rogan and the audience. \u201cI just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I\u2019d like to take this chance to apologize\u2026 to absolutely nobody! The double-champ does what the (expletive deleted) he wants!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If McGregor does appear on the July 4 card at The White House, CBS Sports, the new United States rightsholder of UFC events after the promotion and Paramount Plus came to terms on a stunning media rights deal<\/a> in mid-August, just might want to have the audio delay at the ready in case he wins.<\/p>\n

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