Bye! Reyes Dusted Trolls For UFC Vegas 25

Dominick Reyes got crushed by Jan Blachowicz and lost his light heavyweight title fight at the UFC 253 pay-per-view (PPV) event last September, giving trolls all the fuel they needed to keep the toxic fires burning around the clock.

And from what I’ve heard, American fans are the worst.

But “The Devastator” is putting all that negativity behind him because he quickly learned that some fights you just can’t win. Which is why he’s saying goodbye to the social media garbage that previously kept him in a psychological deficit.

“It’s such a toxic environment,” Reyes told MMA Junkie. “It’s so toxic, and I realized that, but I was reading all the comments and getting all involved and replying back to people and replying back to the trolls that were sending me messages. Dude, that’s so not good. That’s super bad for your mental health, especially in a sport like this, where mental health is 80 percent of the battle.”

Just ask Frank Mir.

“If you’re not mentally there, if you’re not 100 percent ready to go, then man, you’re facing a very uphill battle, and that’s what I dealt with last fight, and I’m very aware of all of it now,” Reyes continued. “It was like a veil got pulled, and I got to see the other side for how it really is. I take everything for what it is now, and I just enjoy the little moments. It’s the little things.”

Little things like Apple Valley memes.

Reyes will have a chance to blast his way back into the win column when he battles Jiri Prochazka in the upcoming UFC Vegas 25 light heavyweight main event, airing this Sat. night (May 1, 2021) on ESPN+ from APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For much more on that upcoming fight card click here.