Sean
Strickland recently listed sports in terms of what he considers
masculine.

According to Strickland (31-7), mixed martial arts is the manliest
sport in the world, followed by other combat sports. The two-time

Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion believes
the striking arts of kickboxing and boxing follow MMA on the list.
He considers wrestling less masculine than the striking arts but
manlier than all other sports.

Strickland went off on the world's most popular sport in the
aftermath of the FIFA World Cup final, shaming soccer players for
faking injuries and their dramatic reactions to contact.

“How are you a grown a** man faking being hit? Are there any soccer
players out there? Do you feel no shame when you fake being
injured?â€

Furthermore, he sees swimming as the least masculine sport.
Notably, he had hockey, American football, baseball, lacrosse and
tennis ahead of soccer.

Strickland dethroned Khamzat
Chimaev in a massive upset at
UFC 328 this past May to win the middleweight title for the
second time. Chimaev is targeting a rematch, but Nassourdine
Imavov and Dricus Du
Plessis, who has two wins over him, are also in the
running.

Most masculine sports in order from being a
man to being a lady boy

MMA
Kickboxing
boxing
Wrestling
Rugby
Hockey
Football
Baseball
Lacrosse
Tennis
Soccer
Golf
Swimming

Right or wrong?

— Sean
Strickland (@SStricklandMMA)
July 19, 2026

Dana White no longer considers his production crew the worst in
sports.

White recently slammed the
Ultimate Fighting Championship's production crew for confusing
Shakur Stevenson with NBA player Jalen Williams at
UFC 329. He labeled them the worst across sports in terms of
showing celebrities at events. However, members of the UFC
production team have now told White that soccer production crews
are even worse when it comes to celebrities.

UFC president Dana White reacts to FIFA World Cup final
celebrity identification mistakes

White believes the words of his production team after Saturday's
FIFA World Cup final, where Spain beat Argentina 1-0. He now
considers the FIFA production crew the worst in sports when it
comes to showing celebrities.

“The guys responsible for the production of the World Cup, for you
guys to hit a Grand Slam home run,†White said on his Instagram
Stories. “Even though everybody on my team was arguably saying that
you are the worst, I said, ‘No, we're the worst. They didn't f*ck
it up as bad as we did.' What do you guys do? You triple down today
and you just go, ‘F*ck you, Dana White. You're not beating us.
We're the worst production team in the history of sports to ever
show celebrities.' I bow down. Congratulations to the producers of
the World Cup. You guys win.' You guys f***ed up that flyover too…
You guys absolutely f*cking suck. We're the second worst.â€

White didn't point out which production error exactly caught his
attention during the FIFA World Cup final. Notably, a commentator
confused singer Pharrell Williams with rapper A$AP Rocky. The two
artists later posted a picture together in good humor.

Meanwhile, another commentator confused U.S. Secretary of State
Marco Rubio, who was sitting behind President Donald Trump, with
Cristiano Ronaldo.

It seems the FIFA World Cup final
broadcasters mixed up Marco Rubio
@marcorubio and
Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano,
saying:

“You see the President of the United States… you've got the
President of FIFA, and that looks like Ronaldo.â€

Great moment either way. pic.twitter.com/M4w4jkNzSH

— Loomer Unleashed (@LoomerUnleashed)
July 19, 2026

Pharrell posts a pic of him and A$AP Rocky
after being mistaken for him on the broadcast 😂 pic.twitter.com/P7RVREMS7z

— JustFreshKicks (@JustFreshKicks)
July 19, 2026

🚨😅 Dana White goes off on FIFA production
team over celebrity name mistake:

“I actually teed up the guys who were responsible for the
production of the World Cup for you guys to hit a home run.
Everyone on my team was saying you guys were the worst. I said,
‘No, we’re the… pic.twitter.com/gVu0PXOK9N

— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight)
July 19, 2026

While Dricus Du
Plessis and Colby
Covington are on good terms, their friendship didn't start
cordially.

The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champ returned to
winning ways by earning a lopsided unanimous decision win over
Kamaru
Usman (21-5) in the main event at
UFC Oklahoma City. Meanwhile, Covington (17-5) defeated
Arman
Tsarukyan (24-3) in a massive upset in a wrestling match at RAF
11 to be crowned the inaugural crossover cruiserweight champion in
Milwaukee the same day.

“Stillknocks” has now revealed the aftermath of his recent
back-and-forth with Covington.

Dricus Du Plessis and Colby Covington went from trash talk to
friendship after UFC drama

Covington was backing du Plessis to defeat Usman, whom he shared
the cage with twice in welterweight title fights. Usman and
Covington had a heated rivalry when “The Nigerian Nightmare” was
the champion and the bitterness between the two continues to this
day.

Ahead of his bout with Usman, du Plessis revealed that he initially
slammed Covington for recommending non-alcoholic beer to Dustin
Poirier, who recently had a run-in with the law due to public
intoxication. However, the South African believes drinking
non-alcoholic beer is a graver crime than anything Poirier has
done.

Covington then invited du Plessis to share some beers, laying the
foundation for a friendship.

“I was giving him sh*t because he was giving Dustin Poirier sh*t
and telling him to drink alcohol-free beer and that's a bigger
crime than anything Dustin Poirier has ever done,†du Plessis told
Full Send MMA. “I told [Covington] that and then he reached out to
me. He's like, ‘Listen, they have normal beers too, let's get some
normal beers with you.' So, I'm a Colby fan.â€

Dricus Du
Plessis explains how his friendship with Colby
Covington developed

“He was giving Dustin
Poirier s**t and telling him to drink non alcoholic beer and
that's a bigger crime than anything Dustin
Poirier has ever done†pic.twitter.com/OSW3wWD9IM

— FULL SEND MMA (@full_send_mma)
July 19, 2026