Khamzat Chimaev dismissed Sean O'Malley's trash talk, comparing him to a circus clown and saying he finds O'Malley's behavior amusing rather than angering. Chimaev revealed that when his friends approached O'Malley, the bantamweight champion backed down, claiming he was just promoting a fight. Chimaev stated he dislikes fake people. In other news, Jiri Prochazka responded to accusations of being fake from Carlos Ulberg by calling Ulberg a stripper. Arman Vakhitov, the last person to defeat Alex Pereira in kickboxing, predicted Pereira would lose his next fight because he gained too much muscle mass while helping Ciryl Gane prepare. Colby Covington complained that the UFC shows no interest in promoting him and expressed willingness to spend his final fighting years in RAF if the UFC doesn't book him.
