Check out this week’s “Spinning Back Clique,” MMA Junkie’s weekly live show that takes a spin through the biggest topics in mixed martial arts. This week’s panel of Brian “Goze” Garcia, Nolan King and Dan Tom will join host “Gorgeous” George Garcia live at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) to discuss and debate:
- Jake Paul lost his heavily hyped boxing match against Tommy Fury on Sunday in Saudi Arabia. Did his bubble burst because of it? We react to the biggest event of the weekend.
- In Dublin, Yaroslav Amosov returned from fighting in a war with Russia for his home country of Ukraine and dominated Logan Storley to unify Bellator’s welterweight title. In the process, he may have a solid claim to be the best 170-pounder in the world. Is he?
- At long last, after more than three years, Jon Jones will return this week – and at heavyweight. Jones meets Ciryl Gane in the UFC 285 main event for the vacant heavyweight title. If he wins, he’ll become a two-division UFC champion. Will that cement him as the GOAT?
- Any time an all-time great fighter makes a list of other all-time great fighters, it’s an interesting conversation. Jones gave out his top five fighters of all time. Naturally, he included himself. But next to him, he had Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Jose Aldo. What do we think about that list? Is he spot on, or does it need to be tweaked?
- UFC president Dana White wants lightweight champ Islam Makhachev and featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski to defend titles before they rematch for the 155-pound belt. Volkanovski will have to fight interim champ Yair Rodriguez. But who should Makhachev defend against to make this timeline add up?
“Spinning Back Clique” is released each Monday LIVE on MMA Junkie’s YouTube channel. You can watch this week’s episode in the video above.