Conor McGregor’s return dreams were dashed again! The hottest commodity in the UFC seems to have no buyers. Who turned down the opportunity at a ‘red panty night?’ Stay tuned as we are back with another MMA roundup with the latest MMA happenings sized up just for you.

From McGregor, we will change lanes to Raquel Pennington, who released the first statement after losing her women’s bantamweight title to Julliana Pena at UFC 307 last weekend. Lastly. we will conclude our Roundup with a piece of news about Jon Jones, who appears to be taking Gary Brecka’s help ahead of his scheduled fight.

Dan Hooker chooses BMF title ahead of a Conor McGregor fight

At the BK͏FC Spain event, Conor͏ McGrego͏r mad͏e several ͏co͏nfe͏ssions͏, ͏one of w͏h͏ich͏ ͏was about his ret͏urn to ͏the O͏c͏tago͏͏n͏.͏ When͏ a͏sked a͏bout it, ͏the f͏o͏rmer dual͏-we͏ight ch͏ampio͏n emphasi͏ze͏d tha͏t͏ he would be ͏͏returning next ͏Febru͏͏ary to͏ ͏face Da͏n͏ Ho͏oker.͏ This ͏r͏eve͏lation sent shockwaves ͏throu͏g͏h the MM͏A world͏, as ͏it ͏prom͏͏is͏es to be a huge f͏ight between͏ ͏the͏ ͏Irishm͏an͏ and th͏͏e͏ Kiwi. However, what does Dan Hooker think about this?

Well, it appears that the Kiwi fighter may have different thoughts about this. While having a conversation with ‘The Schmo’ Dan Hooker emphasized that he would love to fight for the BMF title. ‘Schmo’ asked the fighter about what would be the one fight that he would like to take if he would have been the matchmaker right now, to which ‘Hangman’ said, “Just one? Oh, well, if you go like [that], I’d probably have gone for that BMF title. Okay, yeah, that’s pretty sweet.”

Down in the conversation, when ‘Schmo’ asked the fighter what he would do after he gets that belt, Hooker stated, “straight to the bank baby you got pay-per-view point.” This confession might bring Conor McGregor’s comeback story to a full stop. Regardless, let us move on forward to Raquel Pennington who blamed the judges in Utah for her loss.

Raquel Pennington confesses about her loss against Juliana Pena

Raquel Pennington lost her bantamweight title to Julianna Peña at UFC 307, where the Brazilian overpowered her to secure the decision victory. Pennington put herself to the test against Pena as she defended her title for the very first time after clinching it but despite her best efforts, Pena took the title back by way of split decision. Now that the match has been concluded, Pennington is of the opinion that she should have won the fight and it was the judges who wrote her defeat.

“When it comes to these judges, they need to make it very clear because a lot of them say that the damaging shots are what’s scoring,” said Pennington while having a conversation with ‘MMAFighting’, “I had the damaging shots [in the first round], and it just gets frustrating. It gets frustrating from just being a competitor and the athlete in that situation, but not even just my fight. I have no idea what the judges were seeing that night in general. I even feel bad for Jose Aldo. His fight was the same thing.”

She further added, ” I’ve had numerous top athletes reach out to me. I’ve had Dana White, freaking Hunter [Campbell], Joe Rogan, Jon Anik, [Daniel Cormier], everybody who’s sitting right there and everybody is just like, ‘No way. We don’t understand this.’ Nobody understood it. I didn’t understand it.” She lost her six-fight winning streak with this loss. Well, she might not get an immediate rematch considering Kayla Harrison is there to fight Pena. So while we wait for the water to clear at women’s bantamweight, let us see why Jon Jones appears to be taking Gary Brecka’s help in his path to glory.

Jon Jones is working alongside biologist Gary Brecka

We are only nearly a month away from witnessing Jon Jones squaring off against Stipe Miocic at UFC 309. The heavyweight champion will be defending his title for the very first time after defeating Ciryl Gane at UFC 285. In his journey to trump the UFC heavyweight GOAT, Gary Brecka is helping him immensely. ‘Bones’ shared a handful of visuals that showed Brecka helping Jones with his recovery.

‘Bones’ took to his Instagram handle to add a photo of him with Brecka and captioned it as “I am so honored and humbled to have spent the day with @GaryBrecka and his lovely wife – I can’t possibly THANK YOU two enough for spending the whole day at my home helping me with my health and nutrition goals! Your guidance and support mean so much to me. I am not sure I’ll ever able to repay you. I consider you a true and real friend. I am also feeling so motivated and ready to get a W and to tackle my health journey for the rest of my life!”

With just a month remaining for the ultimate battle that was supposed to take place a year ago, Jon Jones appears to be ready to face the final opponent of his MMA career. What’s your take on this move? And who will McGregor fight when he returns? Do you agree with what Pena said? State your thoughts in the comments below.