TMZ Sports reports that Dustin Poirier was arrested on Sunday evening in Georgia for public intoxication.

According to the Savannah Morning News the location of where Poirier was arrested was not released. Ben Askren released a video which alluded to the fact that he was at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Per the report:

Georgia law defines public drunkenness as appearing in a public place while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to the degree that a person may endanger themselves, others or property, or by boisterousness, indecent conduct or vulgar language causes a disturbance.

Poirier released the below Instagram response after his arrest:

“Love you all Im [sic] working on my self” read the message.

The 37-year-old has been active in retirement. He appears on UFC telecasts as an analyst and is a member on the UFC’s Deep Waters podcast. However, in interviews and podcasts he’s discussed coming back to fighting.

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In my opinion, Poirier, who appeared as one of the nicest and most genuine fighters in combat sports. However, this arrest may spell out an issue that many in the sport have which is what to do after they retire. Poirier, who lives in Lafayette, Louisiana was in Atlanta with friends on Father’s Day. One would think that he would be his family on that day. But notwithstanding the reasons for not being with family, being drunk at around 6:30pm seems like an issue. Mind you, its likely that authorities knew who he was or at least gave him some opportunity to leave the situation but he was disruptive in public and was arrested. Hopefully for Poirier he can really work on himself.

With all of the hoopla around last week’s UFC White House event, it went under the radar that ScottsMiracle-Gro has donated $1M to restore the White House South Lawn.

Prior to the event, the UFC indicated that it would pay $700,000 to restore and resod the South Lawn after the event. However, ScottsMiracle-Gro stepped up to restore the lawn. As a result, its signage appeared in the cage.

The UFC event has destroyed the grass on the Ellipse in front of the White House.

REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz pic.twitter.com/pmNc83s1eJ

— John Jackson (@hissgoescobra) June 19, 2026

It’s not clear if the UFC will still commit the $700,000 or if the donation by ScottsMiracle-Gro will be provided instead. Obviously, ScottsMiracle-Gro donated the money as part of a marketing campaign. In addition, it received the publicity as part of the event. Of course, it will be judged on the restoration of the South Lawn. Hopefully it does better than the company that “restored” the Reflection Pool.

CSI Entertainment has filed an in junction against Floyd Mayweather from fighting this Saturday in Greece against Mike Zambidis.

The lawsuit was filed in New York Federal Court late last week. CSI Entertainment is the promoter that states it has the exclusive right to promote Mayweather’s fights against Mike Tyson and Manny Pacquiao.

The brief in support of the injunction notes that it secured the rights to the Tyson fight in August 2025 for it to occur in the spring of 2026. Tyson injured himself during training and the fight is now set to occur later in 2026.

Notably, it signed with Mayweather’s promotional company and advanced him through the company $2 million.

In November 2025, it secured the rights to the Pacquiao fight. As it did with the Tyson fight, it signed with Mayweather’s promotional company and advanced $2.5 million.

As with all injunctions, it has to make the argument as to why monetary damages will not suffice.

In December 2025, CSI Entertainment claims Mayweather signed an agreement with a third-party promoter which was a material breach of his agreement. The contract with “Everwonder” paid Mayweather a $2.75M advance for a fight with Manny Pacquiao on Netflix. Notably, it had paid Mayweather’s promotional company $2.5M for what seems to be the same fight.

Notwithstanding the December 2025 breach with Everwonder, the above agreement to fight Greece kickboxer Mike Zamidis was another material breach. It was not until January that CSI Entertainment discovered the breach. Instead of a lawsuit, the parties attempted to negotiate a deal to continue the relationship for Mayweather fights. Notably, CSI Entertainment relinquished some rights for the Pacquiao fight but also included the exclusive right to Mayweather’s next fight after Pacquiao.

Also, it had signed an extension for the Tyson-Mayweather fight however the brief does not contemplate what happens if Tyson were to have had an injury which would force him out of a fight prior to a September fight with Pacquiao.

CSI Entertainment establishes the exclusivity agreements with Mayweather backed by advances which totaled at least $4.5 million. It notes, without context, that a March 2026 $150,000 “installment” was made to Mayweather after he passed medicals and then a day later made the announcement that he would fight in Greece in June 2026. Although CSI Entertainment attempted to discuss the implications with Mayweather and/or his representatives, he appeared at a press conference for the event in May 2026.

The news might indicate that Mayweather knew of Tyson’s injury which would delay a fight for the spring/summer of 2026 and instead of waiting wanted to fill a fight so he could earn a payday. We will see if Mayweather’s response identifies anything in the language which would preclude scheduling a fight in lieu of fighter injury.

There has been little in U.S. media promoting this fight this week. This might be due in part that the fight is in Greece and no major network or streaming service is picking it up. However, the legal conflict is another one this year for Mayweather. As is becoming more revealing, Mayweather seems to be in financial peril. The brief indicates that Mayweather allegedly mortgaged his cash advance for another $5.8 million loan. Unlike the White House lawsuit filed by two citizens to stop the UFC White House event, the plaintiff makes the case that it was not until last month that they were made aware of this fight taking place. Moreover, they make a good case that Mayweather breached the agreements as described by the plaintiffs. Like any other case, there’s another side to the story and we will see what Mayweather will argue. It is worthy to note that Mayweather has sued his promotional company for allegedly misdirecting funds out of his accounts. Thus, this may be a key issue in this whole contractual mess.

UFC Fight Night 279 took place on Saturday night at The Apex. The bonuses included a unique submission.

The “Scottish Twister” was pulled off by Murtazali Magomedov on Melsik Baghdasaryan in this featherweight matchup. It was only fourth time the twister put on in UFC history. This version was made famous by Scottish PFL veteran Stevie Ray. Magomedov earned $100K for the finish.

Manel Kape ended the great flyweight run by Kyoji Horiguchi as he finished him in the third round after Horiguchi seemingly won the first two. Kape’s performance likely gets him the next title shot at flyweight. He also earned $100K.

The Fight of the Night went to Vinicius Oliveira and Andre Fili. Each earned $100K. The fight ended with a TKO by Oliveira over Fili.

Barring a last minute injunction, the UFC will hold an event on the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday, July 14th which happens to be the current president’s birthday. The UFC has inextricably tied itself to the polarizing president regardless of public image.

UFC head Dana White has proclaimed Sunday’s event to be non-political despite the fact that his company got this opportunity for helping the president get elected and bolstering his image with his own walkouts during high-visible UFC PPV events. White has spoken at the Republican National Convention three times. He’s a Trump confidant and has been doing his press tour prior to this event praising the him.

Yet, its clear that being associated with the president is not great for the public image.

Most recently, he was condemned for attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York. As a result, fans showed up two hours prior to the game to get through security, they cannot bring bags of any kind into Madison Square Garden and there can not be any viewing parties outside of MSG. The Knicks lost.

The president released a musical lineup of artists that would perform as part of a Freedom 250 concert series that would celebrate America in Washington D.C. However, the acts, one by one dropped out realizing that the gig would be associated with the Trump administration. Despite being long in the tooth, the likes of Young MC and Milli Vanilli backed out of the concerts recognizing it would be associated with a man that is accused of raping underage minors on Epstein Island and will not produce records that could absolve of the accusations.

Only FloRida and Vanilla Ice remained as those willing to do the gig. Nevertheless, the Freedom 250 concert series was scrapped.

Many more celebrities are conscience of the stigma that comes with associating yourself with this administration. Multiple professional sports teams have steered clear of an invite to the White House due to the potential issues it may bring upon itself.

But it is the UFC that remains an undying loyalist to the Trump regime. For its part, the UFC has reaped the benefits. Trump is now an investor in TKO as revealed with his purchase of stock this past spring. It is now linked with a defense contractor with lucrative contracts with the government. It also received a pledge from a Trump-supported company, World Liberty Financial. The company that supported an administration crypto coin and stopped an SEC investigation of a Chinese Crypto King after he invested in the company. That company pledged money into a “bonus pool” for fighters.

Oh yeah, they also are supporting legislation which would allow its newest venture, Zuffa Boxing, to conduct business like it has done in the UFC. The Muhammad Ali American Revival Act will update safety and pay for fighters. It will also make Zuffa Boxing a monopolist in the industry as it will be both sanctioning body and promoter – ensuring that it has its thumb on its contracted fighters. This business model is the same reason why it has paid a settlement of $375M to former fighters and continues to be embroiled in three more antitrust lawsuits.

On Saturday afternoon, the alleged non-partisan event at the Ellipse included large screens supporting Trump and TPUSA, the Charlie Kirk-backed conservative nonprofit. There was no news of other approved political affiliations at the event.

Obviously, Dana White and Donald Trump have helped one another throughout the years. Dana has helped Trump deliver a young white demo to vote for him and Trump has given Dana access to things that even the Fertittas could not afford him. Will this ever change for the UFC? So long as things are bringing the company money, its unlikely.

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Floyd Mayweather is involved in another legal clash. This time its over alleged cash advances on two fights set to take place this year.

TMZ Sports reports a lawsuit filed on Thursday in New York by CSI Entertainment claims the 50-0 boxer breached his contract. CSI Entertainment is the promoter for two Mayweather fights this year according to the report by TMZ Sports which reviewed the lawsuit. The first is the exhibition fight with Mike Tyson that has been postponed until later this year due to a Tyson injury.

The second fight is the scheduled September 19, 2026 fight against Manny Pacquiao. The fight was scheduled for the Sphere and to be shown on Netflix although that has yet to be confirmed.

CSI Entertainment claims they paid $4.5 million to secure Mayweather and paid it to him via his management company Frist Apex Ventures. As pointed out by TMZ, Mayweather is involved in a legal lawsuit against Frist Apex Ventures.

The breach occurred when Mayweather received a separate $150,000 advance, he turned around the following day to announce a fight in Greece against Mike Zambidis.

This lawsuit comes the same week news broke that he was being prosecuted for bouncing a $200K check for a watch. He also is suing his former business partners as written above. He also has an ongoing lawsuit with Showtime Boxing and Stephen Espinoza claiming they stole money for him.

We will see if CSI Entertainment is serious if they file an injunction to prevent Mayweather from fighting next week. Of course, they would likely like him to fight as its clear he does not have cash funds. At this point, CSI Entertainment wants to make sure he can recoup the money advanced to him.

The Sports Business Journal is reporting that an average of 7 million people in the US tuned in on Paramount+ to watch the UFC at the White House event this past Sunday. Variety reports that a total of 8.2 million in the U.S. and Latin America tuned in to watch the fights on the South Lawn of the White House.

A total of 17 million viewers tuned in to Sunday’s fight despite a 30 minute weather delay. The unique viewership is based on those tuning in for at least one minute at any point during the broadcast.

The event featured a bevy of right wing sponsors and tributes to the military and first responders. While the UFC claims to have spent over $60 million on the event, it made it back with the marketing and publicity. Notably, the UFC was going to have to pay for the reseeding of the South Lawn but that has been taken care of by Scotts Turf Builder as a report from Fox Business claims it has donated $1 million to the National Park Service including replenishing the area in which the event took place. In addition, World Liberty Financial chipped in with crypto bonus awards.

Paramount+ indicated that subscriptions rose 267% in comparisons to the previous 30 days.

The viewership is astronomical although according to the numbers Dutton Ranch had more viewers on Sunday than the UFC White House. Yet, the show delivered and despite it receiving negative press due mostly to Josh Hokit’s comments it succeeded with many people (even if just curious) tuning in.

The FBI announced that a plot to “jump start” a revolution involving drone strikes and snipers was stopped. The FBI arrested 5 men including a 19 year old.

ESPN reports that the criminal complaint filed by the FBI described the claimed attack to be started with drone strikes and when evacuations would commence, snipers would shoot people including “U.S. politicians.” The group is believed to have been extreme right wing followers. The 19-year-old’s mother is the one that tipped off police with a concern of his following of Christian extremist groups, infatuation with government corruption and sympathy for Adolf Hitler.

They had identified high profile targets such as Elon Musk, the president, vice president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who was rumored to attend.

The arrest of the 19-year-old let to arrests of two men in Nebaraska, two in California and another in Missouri.

Of course, the news of the latest attempt on the life of the current president immediately turned into another plea for a Ballroom at the White House which will be at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.

We should all know by now that you cannot simply delete social media. There’s always a footprint whether you like it or not.

So when Eric Trump sent a direct message to Daniel Cormier for any intel on the fights, it was picked up by multiple journalists and social media goers. Despite a vehement denial by the son of the president and DC saying that his social media was “hacked or something,” many believe that Trump actually asked for “insider information.”

The next step to that would be if Trump would go ahead and use that information to gamble on it and/or make a Kalshi/Polymarket “investment” in a contract.

Now, this can be just a simple misunderstanding between for a non-fan. Of course, we must consider the actual venue the fights were taking place. The current residence of his father. And, presumably the fights were for him (…and America of course).

Trump initial sent out a tweet stating that this was all a hoax, but he then deleted it after it was “Community Noted.”

In a now-deleted post, Daniel Cormier exposed Eric Trump for asking him if any of the UFC White House fights were rigged:

"I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for bringing this to light, however I refuse to stay silent… Shame on anyone trying to ruin this beautiful… pic.twitter.com/0GldF9HOOG

— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) June 14, 2026

One of the DM’s (above) seems to request whether “any of the fights tomorrow rigged?” It seems to imply that Trump was attempting to procure information to use.

Cormier has denied the rumors of the DMs being real.

I am of the mind that this is a fake exchange largely because the DMs are so blatant in a request for insider information. Moreover, Cormier is a company man and I doubt he would risk any harm to the UFC. Still, based on the Trump family its hard not to think that it would be outside the realm of possibility.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s fight calendar includes at least three fights in the ring and several outside it. The latest being a potential felony charge due to writing a bad check to purchase a watch.

The check for $200,000 is considered a felony due to the lofty amount per Nevada law.

A Las Vegas shop, Gold and Beyond, made the complaint with the Clark County District Attorney’s office this past February. The store did not want to press charges and wanted to resolve the issue but after not receiving word back from Mayweather, filed the report.

Mayweather is (or was) slated to have three exhibition matches this year including one against Mike Tyson and another against Manny Pacquiao. Although little has been written about it, Mayweather is fighting Mike Zambidis in Greece on June 27th.

Money issues have been brought up about the man nicknamed, “Money” Mayweather. According to ESPN, the IRS has a tax lien of more than $7.2M against him. He filed a lawsuit against Showtime Boxing and former executive Stephen Espinoza. In addition, he filed a lawsuit against former business partners for $175M.

The recent legal and business issues for Mayweather infer that the 50-0 boxer is suffering from financial woes. While it is speculative, the news tends to weigh in favor of some financial upheaval requiring Mayweather to make decisions based on money.