Red-hot Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight prospect Payton Talbott makes his first appearance of the year at UFC 311 next weekend (Sat., Jan. 18, 2025) when he takes on UFC veteran Raoni Barcelos inside the brand-new Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California.
After he is through with the ultra-tough Barecelos, Talbott already knows who he wants to scrap with next … and it isn’t a UFC fighter. Instead, he wants the very controversial con artist Andrew Tate.
“Yeah, that’s the one. Yeah, let’s get that going,” Talbott said when asked if he wanted to fight Tate. “I’d take that; I’d take that. Yeah, yeah, it’s just a free-for-all.”
Talbott isn’t the first UFC fighter to want to scrap with “Cobra” and probably won’t be the last. But he did offer an explanation on why he dislikes the Tate.
“He’s just the antithesis of me,” Talbott said. “It seems like someone just cheated on him when he was younger, and now he has this vendetta against women. I feel like he takes himself super seriously, and it’s just like, he’s kind of a poison for masculine culture.”
Unfortunately for Talbott, he will have to wait to beat up Tate as he is currently under house arrest in Romania for his human trafficking case.
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