Jacob Castro

Independent journalist covering combat sports. @parrypunchnews 📰

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🔥 | Rolly Romero believes the stigma of fighters losing their 0 in boxing is killing the sport. 😬

“All these guys that fight nobody. All these guys, all they do is protect their 0. It’s like they box in survival mode just to make it to the next fight. They do that over and over again, and that’s the reason why boxing is dying.”

“When people actually try to make the biggest fights happen, then boxing’s gonna keep growing, right? But when people just keep trying to survive to the next fight, fighting some dude nobody ever heard of, or someone that they’re clearly gonna beat, idk a 20-1 favorite or something, does that kill the sport or does that grow the sport?”

“.. It’s just an illusion that they done created. All that other stuff, that undefeated stuff, that don’t matter.”

“Make the biggest fights you can. Leave a legacy for the boxing world, so the day that you’re gone, you’ll always be remembered.”

🎥 via @ringmagazine

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🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Conor Benn is putting in WORK for his fight with Ryan Garcia on Sept. 12th… while Garcia spars Gorlock and attends karaoke night. 💀🎤🕺🏼 #GarciaBenn

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🔥🚨NEW: Shavkat Rakhmonov’s physician Mikhail Markuart has provided an update on his recovery from multiple knee surgeries and says the soonest he’ll be able to return to the Octagon is winter of 2027. 👀

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I like it Ulberg

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Carlos Ulberg has reacted to Magomed Ankalaev’s win at #UFCAbuDhabi and suggests two No. 1 contender fights take place before he returns in 2027. 👀🏆

The two fights:
- Ankalaev vs. Jiri Prochazka
- Paulo Costa vs. Khalil Rountree Jr.

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Bryce Mitchell says he’ll NEVER listen to another Ian Garry interview after hearing him say women should rule the world. 💀

“Three strikes and Ian Garry’s out. The first strike, he made fun of Neil Magny for spanking his boy. When your boy acts up, you spank him on the butt. Shut up, Ian, you gotta spank your kids.”

“No. 2, it’s the worst of all, he says that women ought to rule the world and rule the household. That is a demonic lie from hell. The man is the leader of the household.”

“.. And then the third strike for me, he said cleaning gutters were so bad his nails were black afterwards bc he had to touch old leaves and pull them out of the gutter. Dude, that’s a job. Shut up. Everybody’s worked a job.”

“.. I do love watching Ian fight, great fighter. I’ll watch every single one of his fights. I will not ever watch an interview anymore. Three strikes and he’s out. I can’t take no more.”

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Damn Ian throwing mom and dad under the bus left and right

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Ian Garry says Neil Magny saying he was gonna ‘whoop his ass like he whoops his son’ struck a nerve bc he was beaten as a kid. 😬👋

“A lot of the comments I got were from people in the black community, explaining how this is part of the culture.”

“Listen, I was smacked and hit as a kid, it was part of my upbringing too. .. So it’s not like it hasn’t happened to me, it has happened to me.”

“.. I’m 28 years of age, I still remember the wooden spoon being smacked across my hands. I remember turning to my dad and going: ‘It doesn’t hurt anymore. I’m used to it.’ Turned it over, [and smacked me with the other side.]”

🎥 YouTube via High Performance Podcast

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Ian Garry reveals his mom wrote him a letter that said “being the next Conor McGregor is not a f*cking plan” after he dropped out of college to chase his dreams of becoming a UFC champion. 😬

“I decided on my own that I was going to quit college. .. I had never trained MMA. I wanted to, I kept talking about it, but I’d never done it.”

“.. I started cleaning windows and I started training. One day my mom comes in my bedroom and says: ‘Get up. You’re meant to be in college.’”

“I was like: ‘I dropped out of college.’ She was like: ‘You what?!’ She stormed out of the room and literally slid three A4 pages under my door.”

“.. In that letter that she wrote me, word for word, in quotation marks: ‘Being the next Conor McGregor is not a f*cking plan.’”

🎥 YouTube via High Performance Podcast

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‘You didn’t attend Grandpa’s funeral!’ 💀💀

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🔥🚨NEW: Ian Garry says he’s “so in touch with his feminine side” to the point that it actually makes him more masculine. 🤔

“I cry watching Disney films. I am so in touch with my feminine side that I feel like I’m more masculine bc of it.”

🎥 YouTube via High Performance Podcast

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🔥🚨NEW: Ian Garry believes the world would be a better place if women were in charge. 🤔

“If the world was run by women, we’d all live in a better world. It would all be simpler and easier. .. If women ruled the world and we just listened to them and let them takeover, it would be an easier world.”

🎥 YouTube via High Performance Podcast

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First images of Ilia Topuria WITHOUT sunglasses have surfaced following his loss to Justin Gaethje at UFC White House in June. 👀

The photos are one month apart. How’s the before and after looking?

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Austin Bashi needs to leave his team immediately imo. They’ve taught him the wrong way of fighting and he seems like a hard worker, so I’m not tryna diss him too hard, but being a wrestling prototype is not it. He’s getting hurt bad when he loses and won’t be rewarded for his wins bc he’s boring to watch. #UFCOKC

Bashi’s style is bad for business.

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The entitlement is lowkey crazy.

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This kid is out of his fuckin mind I love it. The double guns up on the scale. 😂

Then kept flashing the gun sign in his opponents face while popping his shit.

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Yeah why everyone shitting on Max’s wife all of a sudden.

[Parry Punch @ParryPunchNews]

To everyone saying Max’s wife was only interested after finding out he was UFC champ:

1. She clearly stated she hit him up when she moved back to Hawaii for a gym recommendation
2. He suggested the gym and proceeded to ask to hangout.
3. She accepted and only found out how big of a deal he was AFTER they already started hanging out bc people kept coming up to him, which caused her to look him up online.

She didn’t ‘wait to hangout with him until she found out he was champ,’ she did the opposite.

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I’m convinced Usman’s knees are perfectly fine and he just plays it up as a deception tactic

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Shoutout to D Rod’s lawyers 🫡

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🔥🚨NEW: D-Rod just revealed the unpatched method his lawyers used to get him out of prison after violating Mexico’s weed laws. 👀🧠

D Rod: “Part of the process of me getting out is now I have dual citizenship in Mexico.”

Rogan: “Now you do? Bc of getting out? How?”

D Rod: “My lawyers (found a loophole to get me out). When you pulled up the decriminalized(for Mexican citizens law).”

Rogan: “Mhmm. The laws for citizens vs non-citizens.”

D rod: “That was the process of me getting out.”

Rogan: “So you became a citizen so the law was less for you?”

D Rod: “Yeah.”

Rogan: “Bro, that is a crazy loophole. Everybody should become a citizen of Mexico.”

🎥 YouTube via Joe Rogan Experience

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Asakura is gonna be a problem at 135. #UFCMacau

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KAI ASAKURA SHUT HIS LIGHTS OUT FAST 😱

📺 @paramountplus

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Is this dude allergic to protein or what?

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Justin Gaethje’s shape 3 weeks out

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The “kill it” at the end instead of “good to see you” said it all

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its been a minute