Top 5 Trash Talkers in UFC History

5. Nate Diaz: The Ultimate Fighter season 5 winner is recognized as one of the greatest trash talkers in MMA history and it’s a reputation that didn’t take long to acquire. Nate isn’t the witty kind of trash talker, he tends to just hurl raw insults at just about anyone for a variety of reasons. Nate is also an expert at reacting to other people talking trash about him and always seems to have an epic comeback on hand. One of Nate’s most famous lines involves him depicting a training session with Ido Portal and Conor McGregor as “playing touch but in the park.”

4. Dominick Cruz: The former 2 time UFC Bantamweight Champion is without a doubt one of the wittiest trash talkers in the game. Cruz is hilarious and uses his vast intelligence to approach trash talking in a way that gets under his opponents skin. This man has made a career out of verbally torturing guys who used to/still train at Team Alpha Male. Cruz’s talent in the art of talking has even landed him a job commentating for the UFC.

3. Michael Bisping: The UFC’s first British champion has proven over the years that he is a complete savage when it comes to trash talking. It’s quite clear that Bisping is able to have fun doing all the trash talking that he’s done. Many people will never forget when he defied all odds by winning the UFC Middleweight Championship on short notice against Luke Rockhold. However, something that sticks in my mind is him celebrating by pointing at Rockhold and yelling fuck you at the top of his lungs whilst sitting on top of the cage. He’s had legendary verbal disputes with the likes of GSP, Jorge Masvidal, Vitor Belfort, Chael Sonnen, Yoel Romero, and many others, which is why he is number 3 on this list. Just like Dominick Cruz, Bisping’s talking ability has also landed him a job on the UFC commentary desk.

2. Conor Mcgregor: This entry on the list is a given and everyone knows that Conor is an elite trash talker. His appearances at press conferences get more views than some UFC cards, the number of PPV’s he’s sold is enormous, he’s also the highest paid fighter in UFC history, and these things are largely because of Conor’s next level trash talking ability. Nobody in the sport has as many iconic moments as Conor does outside of the cage and his comedic timing is rivalled by no one. His “who da fook is that guy?” is one of the most iconic moments in the history of press conferences and that is one of many reasons why he’s number 2 on this list.

1. Chael Sonnen: Uncle Chael isn’t just the best trash talker in UFC history, he’s the best trash talker in sports history. There should be a museum dedicated to him with his quotes carved in stone. The intricacy of his shit talking is to be admired, the man is clearly a genius when it comes to trash talking. Anyone who wasn’t a fan back in Sonnen’s prime missed a truly special time in sports history. Here’s a series of some of his best chirps to help remind you just how special his trash talk really was.

"I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus, this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot, while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened. He tried to feed a bus a carrot, and now you're telling me this country has computers? I didn't know that."

"My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'"

"Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy."

"Well, for those of you who can't see, this is the championship belt that I took from Anderson Silva. In this country, possession is 9/10 of the law. Finders keepers, losers weepers. If he wants it back, he knows where he can find it."

“Tito always says I'm using my mouth to get my opportunities. The only person I know that made money using their mouth was his ex-wife.”

"I actually held public office and I left the only way a person should in handcuffs."

"If Jon Jones, a potted cactus, and a slice of pizza from my oven were all on Jeopardy, Jon Jones would not make the final round."

"When doubt seeps in, you got two roads, you can take either road. You can go to the left or you can go to the right and believe me, they'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous. Failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times, but it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed. And if we can plant seeds and let him know, ‘Move your feet, keep your hands up, stay off the bottom.' That is the road to victory, or self-doubt and negative talk, and that is the road to failure. But failure is always there, and it's okay to recognize that. If I can leave you with anything today, in my long journey through this is, one: it's okay. Two: it's normal. And as athletes and especially as men, as male athletes we hate to admit weakness to ourselves, and when you're dealing with something and you got some kind of a hiccup, yeah, first thing is acknowledge it."

"I'm sore, tired, under the weather, overtrained, under-motivated and still tough enough to beat this guy."

"You know, these guys want to talk about God. ‘Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.’ Listen, I’m a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system."

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