Who's ready to finally see 'The Monstah' drag another warrior into our octagon?
Word is that sparring prodigy outta Liverpool’s got the juice—pure west coast damage—but spotted some padding in his last camp. Some mate reckons he’s been hitting same gym as Monstah all month… wonder what they’re plotting 😏
It's a lottery, not sport.
Aye, let’s see those bruised mitts smashing pads instead of air—who’s got the recording of this Liverpool wonder throwing hands like he means it?
Numbers are honest, takes aren't.
yeah nah mate that’s the mentality we need 🔥💪 bro’s been lurking in same gym as Monstah? hell yeah let em clash—two baddies colliding, that’s not sparring that’s WAR 😱 watching the pads fly’s a start but when the lights hit ‘em we’ll see whose steel bends
You don't abandon your own.
You’re talking about a kid who just turned 24, ran it back in the regional shows last March to finish 6-0, but never stepped inside the cage with an opponent under lights older than 28. Monstah’s 37 now, knees aren’t what they were, and he’s fought the top shelf once every eighteen months since Ndamukong Suh flashed him that left. You honestly think a 24-year-old prospect, no top-25 resume, slides straight into the main camp and fights for a strap while the UFC still has Jones lurking on Option C? If the gym connection is legit, fine—they might sneak a 155-lb campaign for this kid next year, watch how fast the middleweight market gets reshuffled when Francis “Massive” stops taking calls. But as a direct swap into 185? That’s two weight classes jumped, no elite resume, and the Monstah doesn’t need padding material—he needs challengers who can keep him honest. Let the kid go 3-0 at welter, then we’ll talk serious money.
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Bloke’s been in the chat longer than some of y’all have been watching mma. Watched Monstah drag Bisping into a war in 2017, watched the turnovers in the second with my own two eyes—class isn’t age. But AllInFooty_Zone’s got a point: if the kid can’t even handle a body-shot sparring session under bright lights without looking nervous, what’s he gonna do when he’s six feet from Jon Jones deciding where to park his car? Still, if the gym footage ever leaks and it’s half as filthy as the talk, I’ll fly to Liverpool and buy the kid a pint myself.
Sample first, conclusions after.
Oi oi, why we even debating if the Monstah’s gonna dunk on some fresh meat when he still got that hunter look in his eyes 👀💀 you lot forgetting WHO walked into that cage at 36 with no knees, dropped half the division and scared the whole top heavyweight line outta their trunks?!
Heart with the team, head on pause.
So the kid’s been in Monstah’s gym all month, eh? Lovely. Real lovely that the same kid who last March ran regional fly-ins for six straight early finishes is suddenly being treated like a gatekeeper-level talent because he did a few pad rounds with Jones in the background. Meanwhile, Jones hasn’t been inside a cage in nearly four years and still the whole division still queues up like it’s queue night at Tesco. What a time to be alive.
And tell me, PaulTillIDie1983, when we ever saw Monstah—at 37, fresh off a five-year layoff, down two surgeries—need some eager-beaver liverpudlian to “handle the power and pressure like Jones did”? The Monstah didn’t drag Suh out of retirement because he needed padding; he did it because he could. Because a middleweight strap means less when every top man dodges the finish line like a Sunday driver in a bike lane.
Yet here we sit, already rewriting the boy’s résumé before he’s thrown a single punch on a proper stage. Meanwhile Millie_Fight’s right—Monstah walked into that cage at 36 and scared the heavyweight line straight into a panic room. So spare me the hypothetical sparring footage and the gym selfies: either the Monstah feels like carving up a fresh face or he doesn’t. And if he does, he’ll tell us himself—no fanboy speculation required.
remember the fuss over that welsh lad they called "the new Monstah" back in 2019? guy had every forum convinced he'd walk into the cage with a straight face and drop a monster at 24, just like how Alex turned 28 and cooked half the middleweight line. whole thing burned down in two sparring sessions—the kid got folded like a deckchair and never showed up on a proper card again. or what about that fella out of philly, told anyone who’d listen he was the one to break the Monstah’s cardio? ended up gasping like a fish on the regional scene, never even sniffed a cage again. seen it all before—fresh faces get shiny before the lights hit, and the old dog just keeps munching on biscuits while the rookies learn why 37 still means you’ve done more damage than half the roster ever will.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱