2016 – a year of trash talk pic.twitter.com/LW6D2lK533 — UFC (@ufc) December 25, 2016 From “Who the (expletive) is that guy?” to “Where is Jose Waldo?” and many others, 2016 was a year in which skills on the microphone became just as important to success in MMA as anything else. The great fighters will always get some measurement of attention, but adding in some good trash talk can help take an athlete to a new level. That was no more evident than over the past year. UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) will receive almost universal praise as the UFC’s best talker, and he certainly had his share of memorable moments in 2016. However, he wasn’t the only one to use verbal warfare to help tear down an opponent or build up a fight. With 2016 coming to a close, the UFC put together a highlight reel of all the top moments of trash talk over the past 12 months, highlighted by the likes of McGregor, Dominick Cruz (22-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC), Max Holloway (17-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC), Michael Bisping (30-7 MMA, 20-7 UFC), Khabib Nurmagomedov (24-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) and more
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Relive the UFC’s best trash-talking moments of 2016 – think Conor McGregor’s in there? – MMA Junkie