10 More Of The Worst MMA Trash Talk Attempts

TL;DR

A countdown of 10 hilariously failed MMA trash talk moments, from home invasion threats to mangled insults, proving fighters are better at fighting than talking.

Key Points

• 1.Cheyanne Vlismas delivered the emptiest threat in MMA history. After being controlled on the ground for 10 of 15 minutes against Conejo Ruiz, she threatened to 'follow her home' — a hollow escalation from losing a cage fight to promising home invasion.
• 2.Jamahal Hill's YouTube rants are a goldmine of committed but baffling trash talk. Before fighting Procházka, he argued his KO loss to Pereira was better than Jiří's because he 'got caught' rather than 'dominated' — despite landing only 12 strikes before being stopped in three minutes.
• 3.Henry Cejudo's Academy Award insult at the Aljamain Sterling presser landed completely flat. He attempted the same prepared joke twice, 20 minutes apart, with Sterling interrupting the first delivery and the punchline failing both times.
• 4.Ian Garry was caught on camera switching from friendly to confrontational the moment he spotted a camera near Khamzat Chimaev in Qatar. The 4K clip of him saying 'ready to go?' before manufacturing a beef became viral proof of his perceived inauthenticity.
• 5.Manel Kape's post-fight callout of Pantoja baffled everyone with the phrase 'taking your diapers alive.' The repeated, clearly intentional line left viewers and the host unable to determine what it meant, making it accidentally more terrifying than threatening.
• 6.Eddie Alvarez's best insult at UFC 205 against peak Conor McGregor was that John Kavanagh wrote a book. After failing to create a wedge between Conor and his coach, Alvarez's brain landed on 'your coach is an author' — to which McGregor noted it was a best seller.