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Twitter fired employees who publicly called out: Elon Musk

At least three Twitter employees who survived the major layoffs that slashed the company’s personnel in half were dismissed after publicly criticising their new leader on the network. Eric Frohnhoefer is one of them, and he responded to Elon Musk’s post apologising for Twitter’s slowness in several countries.

“The app is performing over 1000 badly batched RPCs only to render the home timeline!” Musk penned a letter. Frohnhoefer said that Musk’s assertion is “false” after six years of working on Twitter for Android.

The multi-company executive then asked him what the correct number was and what he had done to fix Twitter for Android, which had been “super slow.” He responded with the work his team had done for the app and listed a few reasons why it was slow: “First, it’s bloated with features that get little usage. Second, we have accumulated years of tech debt as we have traded velocity and features over perf. Third, we spend a lot of time waiting for network responses.”

Their conversation continued in multiple threads, and when one person suggested that Frohnhoefer should have notified his boss quietly, he responded, “Maybe he should ask questions discreetly. Maybe via Slack or email.” After that, Musk informed everyone on Twitter that Fronhoefer had been fired.

According to Forbes, the former Twitter app engineer received no notification from Twitter regarding his firing and that his laptop “simply shut off.” He went on to say that “[n]o one trusts anyone within the firm anymore,” making it difficult to perform. According to the former Twitter employee, “people were more open and thought they could critique before Musk took control, and now that’s definitely not the case.”

**At least three Twitter employees who survived the major layoffs that slashed the company’s personnel in half were dismissed after publicly criticising their new leader on the network.**

According to Bloomberg, another engineer named Ben Leib was also sacked. Musk’s apology tweet was also met with a response from Leib, who said that as a former “tech head for timelines infrastructure at Twitter,” their new owner had no idea what he was talking about. Then there’s Sasha Solomon, a business tech lead who responded to Musk’s tweet with her own and later claimed that she, too, had been sacked.

Twitter has seen significant adjustments since Elon Musk officially purchased the company. He quickly fired its senior executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, and ordered mass layoffs that resulted in the dismissal of roughly half of the social network’s staff. Twitter also debuted the $8-per-month Blue membership, which gave everyone who could afford it access to quick verification. However, making the blue checkmark easy to achieve resulted in an increase in impersonation and legitimate-looking fraudulent accounts on the platform.

Since Musk took over late last month, Twitter has been in disarray. Many employees are still furious that Musk sacked half of the company’s 7,000-plus employees, including the majority of senior management, within a week of his $44 billion buyout.

The billionaire also quickly altered corporate culture. While it was not previously common for employees to publicly challenge leadership at Twitter, employees frequently spoke out on internal Slack channels and via email before Musk arrived, sometimes posting criticism or concerns to the entire company.

According to current and former employees, Musk’s changes have resulted in a lack of communication internally about who is in charge and what the company’s priorities are.

The changes have also raised concerns that Twitter, based in San Francisco, is vulnerable to product failures or technical outages. Twitter implemented another coding freeze on Monday, halting app product updates, with no explanation given to employees.

Employee firings have also sparked a barrage of jokes emphasising Musk’s termination streak since taking over Twitter in October. Elon Musk has fired more than half of the company’s personnel, and Twitter began terminating contractual employees last weekend. He is believed to have terminated the services of over 4,400 contractual employees. The whole contractual workforce numbered 5,500 people.

**Elon Musk is considering making verification a Twitter Blue perk.: Twitter will charge USD 8 per month for blue tick**

News Headlines: Elon Musk: ‘I have too much work on my plate’

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China launches the remote sensing satellite Yaogan-34

On Tuesday, China successfully launched a new Yaogan-34 series remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:38 a.m. (Beijing Time).

On November 15, 2022, a Long March-4C rocket carrying a new Yaogan-34 series remote sensing satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. (Photo courtesy of Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)

The Yaogan-34 03 satellite was successfully launched into orbit by a Long March-4C rocket.

This remote sensing satellite will be used in a variety of applications, including land resource surveying, urban planning, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and mitigation.

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NASA has cleared the Artemis moon rocket for launch on Wednesday

NASA managers examined the threat posed by hurricane-damaged insulation on the Artemis moon rocket on Monday and certified the $4.1 billion booster for launch “as is” on Wednesday. The launch would begin a long-delayed mission to propel an unpiloted Orion crew capsule around the moon and back.

Engineers found that even if more strips of the caulk-like “RTV” insulation peel away during the Space Launch System rocket’s ascent to space, the material is not huge or dense enough to do substantial damage even if a piece hits one of the two lower stages or strap-on boosters.

As the countdown neared its end, NASA’s mission management team unanimously agreed to proceed with a third launch attempt at 1:04 a.m. EST Wednesday, the start of a two-hour window.

“I inquired if there were any dissenting perspectives, and there were none,” said Mike Sarafin, mission manager for Artemis 1. “That flight logic was accepted by us. So our intention to launch on the 16th remains unchanged.”

The 322-foot-tall Space Launch System rocket is the linchpin of NASA’s Artemis moon program, capable of boosting Orion moonships and other components directly into lunar orbit for rendezvous with a planned space station and lunar lander.

However, since the spacecraft was wheeled out to launch pad 39B for the first time in March, more than 240 days ago, it has been plagued with hydrogen fuel leaks and other malfunctions that have disrupted multiple fueling tests and two launch attempts.

Engineers brought the SLS back out to the pad on November 3 to prepare for another launch attempt, despite the formation of a subtropical storm in the Caribbean, after devising a “kinder, gentler” strategy for fueling the rocket to minimise leaking.

*NASA managers examined the threat posed by hurricane-damaged insulation on the Artemis moon rocket on Monday and certified the $4.1 billion booster for launch “as is” on Wednesday.*

That storm eventually intensified into Hurricane Nicole, but it was too late to bring the rocket back to the safety of its assembly building. Instead, it was exposed to the elements while riding out hurricane-force winds and rain on the pad.

Surprisingly, neither the SLS rocket nor the launch pad sustained serious damage. Engineers discovered, however, that a 10-foot section of RTV insulation covering an indentation between the Orion crew capsule and the base of its protective nose cone had delaminated and been pulled away in smaller pieces by the high winds.

That section of the rocket cannot be accessed from the launch pad, necessitating a thorough engineering analysis to determine what threat, if any, might exist if any additional RTV detached during flight.

“The risk with RTV is that a tiny or large piece may come off, reach the correct location in the airflow, drop down and strike the vehicle and do damage,” Jim Free, NASA’s director of exploration systems, told CBS News in an interview.

“This could result in the vehicle being destroyed or degraded in some way. And we have to run all of those to the ground before we can proceed.”

Some of the concerns were similar to those raised prior to the launch of the shuttle Columbia in 2003, when a big piece of foam insulation fell off its external tank and killed the orbiter’s left wing. In that situation, the danger was not appropriately assessed during the pre-flight analysis.

“I believe it would be ridiculous for me to claim (Columbia) isn’t on everyone’s radar,” Free said. “The transportation study we’re performing is based on what we learned from the space shuttle.”

Engineers conducted a thorough analysis, keeping Columbia’s lessons in mind, and concluded that SLS insulation was not a credible threat. With forecasters predicting a 90 percent chance of good weather, the launch may well come down to whether previous fueling issues with the massive rocket have been resolved.

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NASA CAPSTONE probe overcomes a malfunction and enters orbit around the moon

NASA’s CAPSTONE CubeSat probe arrived in orbit above the moon Sunday night, a big victory for the space agency after a major engine malfunction during the summer nearly ruined the project.

CAPSTONE needed to fire its engines twice more to return to the moon, where it entered a highly elliptical near rectilinear halo orbit, or NRHO, about 7:39 p.m., according to NASA.

The news came on the heels of a flurry of recent test missions that laid the scene for astronauts to return to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years.

The 55-pound spacecraft, which resembles a microwave oven, was rendered inoperable for several weeks after a failed engine burn launched it into space on Sept. 8.

Back on Earth, mission control needed until early October to repair the propulsion system and steady the orbiter, which was restarted approximately two weeks ago after resurfacing 69,000 miles off track.

Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment is abbreviated as CAPSTONE. The probe is being used to estimate the orbit of a future space station called Gateway, which NASA hopes to float around the moon as part of the Artemis program’s initial phase.

The mission, which debuted on June 28, appeared to be cursed from the start.

Early in the voyage, ground control lost touch with the probe after it mistakenly jettisoned a supplementary crew ship, but technicians soon identified and corrected the fault in a coding command that had been erroneously formatted.

The mission is planned to extend at least six months now that the probe is back on course, with the probe setting the path for Gateway as well as undertaking navigation and communication tests in collaboration with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

According to NASA’s blog, “Artemis is the first step in the next phase of human exploration.” “NASA, in collaboration with commercial and international partners, will build a long-term presence on the Moon in order to prepare for Mars missions.”

The mission is planned to extend at least six months now that the probe is back on course, with the probe setting the path for Gateway as well as undertaking navigation and communication tests in collaboration with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Success! NASA’s CAPSTONE mission has arrived at the moon

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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping meet on sidelines of G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia

On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping exchanged handshakes. This is their first official encounter since Biden assumed office as President of the United States.

On the margins of the G20 Summit, US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met for the first time in person on Monday in Bali. Handshakes were exchanged between Biden and Xi. This is their first official encounter since Biden assumed office as President of the United States.

“We spent a lot of time together back when we were both vice presidents, and it’s just lovely to see you,” Biden said as he wrapped his arm around Xi, adding in remarks to reporters that he was committed to maintaining channels of communication open on a personal and government level.

“As the leaders of our two nations, we share responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition from … turning into conflict, and to find ways to work together on urgent global issues that require our mutual cooperation,” the US President said.

The United States’ tight ties with Taiwan has irked China. Beijing fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island in August. Russia has also put the country in an extremely tough situation with Ukraine.

On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping exchanged handshakes. This is their first official encounter since Biden assumed office as President of the United States.

“I’m committed to keeping the lines of communication open between you and me personally, but also our governments across the board,” Biden told Xi on Monday, emphasising that both countries must “manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything close to conflict, and find ways to work together on urgent global issues that require our mutual cooperation.”

The discussion in Bali was expected to be lengthy. Biden set aside up to four hours for the conversation before a scheduled news conference.

Officials in the United States predicted a business-like atmosphere for the summit, which was confined to the two presidents and their closest advisers.

The encounter with China, which Biden’s government regards as the United States’ biggest economic foe, is viewed as an opening conversation between the leaders. The goal on the US side was that in a face-to-face talk, the leaders would be able to define guardrails for the relationship that they had not been able to do over the phone, particularly with regard to Taiwan.

The United States has traditionally maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity over how it would respond to an attack on the territory, but Biden has frequently stated that the United States would come to Taiwan’s assistance if the territory were attacked.

According to Barry Pavel, a former National Security Council defence policy aide to former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Biden should “make it very clear that the United States and Taiwan and other democratic partners are increasingly close, and it would be extremely unwise and damaging for China if it were to undertake an invasion or otherwise coerce Taiwan.”

“Whatever happens in a private meeting may have a greater impact than what happens in front of a microphone,” said Pavel, a vice president at the nonprofit RAND Corporation and director of its National Security Research Division.
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World Diabetes Day: Educate today to protect tomorrow: Diabetes affects around 422 million people worldwide

On World Diabetes Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for expanded access to excellent diabetes education for health and care providers, the general public, and people living with diabetes as part of efforts to attain universal access to quality, affordable diabetes care.

Diabetes affects around 422 million people worldwide, and diabetes is directly responsible for 1.5 million fatalities each year. Diabetes is estimated to affect more than 96 million people in the WHO South-East Asia Region, with another 96 million being pre-diabetic, resulting in at least 600,000 deaths each year. Diabetes prevalence in the Region is expected to rise by 68% by 2045 unless urgent action is taken.

Every year on November 14, World Diabetes Day is observed to draw people’s attention to the health risks posed by diabetes and how to avoid them.

Every year on November 14, World Diabetes Day is commemorated to draw people’s attention to the health risks posed by diabetes and how to avoid them. The huge achievement of insulin discovery by two outstanding scientists, Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best, is commemorated on this day. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) will be organising activities on the day, so look for a local event! Any assistance or support you can provide for this cause would be highly appreciated by everyone involved.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, and amputation of lower limbs. A healthy diet, physical activity, and abstaining from tobacco use can all help to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Diabetes can also be controlled and its repercussions minimised or postponed through medication, routine screening, and treatment for complications. Diabetes is a chronic condition that arises when the pancreas does not create enough insulin or when the body does not use the insulin that is produced adequately. This causes an increase in the concentration of glucose in the blood (hyperglycaemia).

Diabetes Types:

Type 1 diabetes (also known as insulin-dependent diabetes or childhood-onset diabetes) is characterised by a lack of insulin production.

Type 2 diabetes (also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes or adult-onset diabetes) is caused by the body’s inefficient utilisation of insulin. It is frequently caused by high body weight and physical inactivity.

Gestational diabetes is hyperglycemia that appears during pregnancy.

The Importance of World Diabetes Day 2022

This day is primarily observed to raise diabetes awareness through programmes that reach over one billion people worldwide. Furthermore, it promotes IDF advocacy initiatives all year. It contributes to the recognition of the need of adopting coordinated action to combat diabetes.

The UN Resolution that established World Diabetes Day in 2007 is represented by a blue circle emblem. This emblem represents diabetes awareness and the global diabetes community’s togetherness.

Diabetes education must be enhanced in order to help stop the growth in diabetes and protect future generations. From the ground up, health and care staff must have the means and knowledge to detect diabetes early and adequately care for diabetics. Diabetes patients must have access to detailed information on how to best manage their illness, which may involve medication adherence and regular check-ups. Furthermore, the general public must be fully aware of how to prevent diabetes, such as through a healthy lifestyle, as well as how to detect its signs and symptoms, such as the need to urinate frequently, thirst, constant hunger, weight loss, vision changes, and fatigue.

History of World Diabetes Day:

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization declared World Diabetes Day for the first time in 1991. (WHO). The date of November 14 was chosen as World Diabetes Day because it was the birth anniversary of Frederick Banting, who developed insulin with Charles Best. And in 1991, the day commemorated his 100th birthday anniversary, therefore it was declared World Diabetes Day to encourage diabetes awareness all over the world.

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Voltas Ltd has signed a technology licencing deal with Vestfrost Solution of Denmark

Voltas Ltd has signed into a Technology License Agreement with the India market to develop, make, distribute, and service medical refrigeration and vaccine storage equipment such as ice coated refrigerators, vaccine freezers, and ultra low temperature freezers.

In India, for the manufacture and sale of medical refrigeration and vaccine storage equipment.

Vestfrost Solutions, founded in 1963 in Esbjerg, Denmark, is a global developer and manufacturer of innovative and efficient refrigerators and freezers in the Bio Medical and Cold Chain industries, and will provide the technology and know-how for the products to be manufactured at Voltas’ facilities in India.

Voltas’ strong brand presence and extensive sales and distribution network will be leveraged in this collaboration. Voltas has been the undisputed market leader in domestic air conditioners in India for more than a decade, and it also leads the market in Commercial Refrigeration equipment in India.

Vestfrost Solutions will bring strong R&D and manufacturing capabilities, as well as a diverse product line and global sourcing capabilities. These products will be designed in accordance with Vestfrost’s global best practises and will meet the needs of the medical industry.

*Vestfrost Solutions, founded in 1963 in Esbjerg, Denmark, is a global developer and manufacturer of innovative and efficient refrigerators and freezers in the Bio Medical and Cold Chain industries*

Pradeep Bakshi, CEO of Voltas, stated that it was a timely product addition for the company. “The combination of Vestfrost’s strong technological competence and Voltas’ production and distribution skills will enable us to provide more distinctive and differentiated goods to the Indian market,” he said.

Vestfrost Solutions’ sales director, Thomas Jrgensen, stated that the rapid increase of India’s concentration on medical advancements presents a huge opportunity for our company.

Voltas is a leading provider of air conditioning and engineering solutions, as well as a project specialist. The company is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its portfolio includes, in addition to room air conditioners, air coolers, air purifiers, water dispensers, water coolers, commercial refrigeration, and commercial air conditioning products.

Voltas has been the market leader in household air conditioning and commercial refrigeration products in India for over a decade. Through a collaboration, it has also entered the home appliance industry, including refrigerators, microwave ovens, washing machines, and dishwashers.

In Q2 FY23, the company reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 7.41 crore, compared to a net profit of Rs 103.61 crore in Q2 FY22. In the quarter ended 30 September 2022, revenue from operations increased 4.2% year on year to Rs 1,739.12 crore. The stock has dropped 0.61% to Rs 824 on the BSE.

The company is broadly classified into two categories: projects and products. Domestic Projects Group (DPG) and International Operations Business Group (IOBG) comprise the project business (IOBG). Meanwhile, the products business is divided into three divisions: the Unitary Products Business Group (UPBG), the Mining & Construction Equipment Division (MCED), and the Textile Machinery Division (TMD) (TMD).

Building market leadership with innovative cooling solutions

Today, Voltas continues to stand at the forefront of re-engineering the future through innovative thinking and smart engineering. As India’s largest air conditioning company, Voltas is also one of the most reputed engineering solution providers, specialising in project management.

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Success! NASA’s CAPSTONE mission has arrived at the moon

Success! NASA’s CAPSTONE: The historic journey to the moon of a tiny NASA spacecraft has completed. NASA officials said in a brief statement that the milestone came after a successful engine burn that finished at 7:39 p.m. EST (0039 GMT on Nov. 14).

The CAPSTONE probe, weighing 55 pounds (25 kilogrammes), enterćd orbit around the moon on Sunday evening (Nov. 13), becoming the first cubesat to visit Earth’s nearest friend.

The manoeuvre placed CAPSTONE (short for “Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment”) in a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon, a highly elliptical path that NASA’s Gateway space station will also occupy.

NASA intends to launch the first components of Gateway, a critical component of the Artemis moon mission programme, in 2024. But first, the agency wants to understand more about lunar NRHOs, which is where CAPSTONE comes in: During a six-month mission, the microwave-sized spacecraft will test the suspected stability of this orbit, which no spacecraft has ever flown in before.

CAPSTONE will also conduct communication and navigation tests, some in collaboration with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the moon since 2009.

CAPSTONE, on the other hand, isn’t quite ready to get started; it still has to fine-tune its path around the moon.

NASA officials said in a brief statement that the milestone came after a successful engine burn that finished at 7:39 p.m. EST (0039 GMT on Nov. 14).

“Two smaller correction manoeuvres will take place this week to guarantee the spacecraft is verified into the difficult lunar orbit,” Advanced Space officials, who own CAPSTONE and manage the cubesat for NASA, said in an update Sunday night.

CAPSTONE’s journey to lunar orbit was not without incident. On June 28, the probe was launched atop a Rocket Lab Electron launcher, beginning a 4.5-month journey that followed gravitational curves.

On July 4, the CAPSTONE team lost touch with the probe, shortly before it separated from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft bus. They immediately detected and resolved the issue, an incorrectly formatted command, and got CAPSTONE back on track the next day.

Two months later, CAPSTONE came into more problems. On Sept. 8, the probe experienced a problem during a trajectory-correcting engine burn, causing it to tumble and enter a precautionary safe mode.

The mission team traced this problem to a wonky valve in CAPSTONE’s propulsion system, troubleshot it, and got the probe back on course for its historic lunar arrival.

CAPSTONE revealed in lunar Sunrise: CAPSTONE will fly in cislunar space – the orbital space near and around the Moon. The mission will demonstrate an innovative spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation solution at the Moon from a near rectilinear halo orbit slated for Artemis’ Gateway.

CAPSTONE is a lunar trailblazer, but it is not the first cubesat to travel beyond Earth orbit. That honour goes to NASA’s MarCO-A and MarCO-B probes, also known as Wall-E and Eva, which launched in May 2018 alongside the agency’s InSight Mars lander. Six months later, the two cubesats assisted in beaming home data from InSight’s Red Planet touchdown and also managed to photograph Mars.

Mike Wall is the author of “Out There,” a book about the search for alien life (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate).

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Elon Musk: ‘I have too much work on my plate’

Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he was working “at the absolute greatest amount… from sunrise till night, seven days a week.” When asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker

After purchasing the social networking platform, the millionaire claims to be working from morning to night.

“I certainly have too much work on my plate,” Musk said via video link to a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

Musk, the CEO of both firms, arrived lighted by candles, wearing a batik shirt provided by the organisers, and stated that he was speaking from a location that had recently lost electricity.

The question of whether Tesla (TSLA) will suffer as a result of Musk’s Twitter obsession has become a focal point for investors and experts.

Indonesia has been attempting to reach an agreement with Tesla over battery investment and maybe with Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace business for the development of a rocket launch site.

Musk made no commitments to either, but said Indonesia has a significant role to play in the electric vehicle supply chain and that having many launch ports around the world would make sense “long term” for SpaceX.

On Monday, he became embroiled in an online debate about free lunches for Twitter employees.

According to the New York Times, the company cafeteria’s free meals are being discontinued, and Mr Musk tweeted that “almost no one came to the office” and that the “estimated cost per lunch served in the past 12 months is more than $400.”

Mr Musk responded by claiming that Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco headquarters.

He tweeted, “There are more people making breakfast than enjoying breakfast.” “They don’t bother serving dinner because no one is in the building.”

Meanwhile, Mr Musk stated on Saturday that Twitter Blue will most likely “reappear at the end of next week.”

Twitter paused its recently launched $8 blue check membership service on Friday, citing an increase in bogus accounts.

Twitter employees have been pushed to work 84-hour weeks and managers have slept at the office over the weekend in order to meet Elon Musk’s strict deadlines.

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Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson, a two-time UFC championship challenger, died at the age of 38

Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson: MMA Fighting has confirmed the news with sources with knowledge of the situation, following an outpouring of messages on social media regarding Johnson’s death

The reason of death has not yet been disclosed.

Johnson is most known for his two UFC runs from 2007 to 2012 and 2014 to 2017. His first appearance in the promotion saw him emerge as an intriguing welterweight prospect with unrivalled knockout power, while his second appearance was as a light heavyweight. During his second UFC run, Johnson defeated Glover Teixeira, Ryan Bader, Alexander Gustafsson, and Phil Davis, earning two shots at the light heavyweight belt.

He retired from MMA in 2017 following his second loss to Cormier, but returned in 2021 to fight for Bellator, knocking out Jose Augusto in the second round of their Light Heavyweight World Grand Prix quarterfinal match. Johnson was forced to withdraw from his scheduled fight against Bellator light heavyweight champion Vadim Nemkov last October due to an undisclosed illness.

According to Research Editorial Samidha, Johnson died of organ failure caused by non-lymphoma Hodgkin’s and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a rare immune system illness.

Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson: MMA Fighting has confirmed the news with sources with knowledge of the situation, following an outpouring of messages on social media regarding Johnson’s death.

Johnson concluded his MMA career with a 23-6 record and 17 knockout victories. Following a title fight loss to Daniel Cormier at UFC 210 in 2017, Johnson took a four-year hiatus before returning for one fight at Bellator 258.

Johnson was forced to withdraw from the Bellator Light Heavyweight Grand Prix in September 2021 due to an undisclosed illness. Johnson stated that he hopes to compete again in 2022.

“He was always a wonderful child. He was always in exciting battles and has one-punch KO power that few people possessed. He was a decent person. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family.”

Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson’s decision to keep his illness quiet is discussed by Kamaru Usman.

Johnson is most known for his two UFC runs from 2007 to 2012 and 2014 to 2017. His first appearance in the promotion saw him emerge as an intriguing welterweight prospect with unrivalled knockout power, while his second appearance was as a light heavyweight.

Prior to Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson’s untimely demise, Kamaru Usman and the latter were good friends. Usman discussed Johnson’s decision to keep his sickness hidden with Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Iole, comparing him to late actor Chadwick Boseman:

“It reminded me of Chadwick Boseman. Chadwick kept his problem hidden, and we were all taken aback. Rumble would tell you these casual anecdotes, and he was on dialysis for his kidneys, but he never told you everything.”

Usman continued:

“He refused to be treated differently. He didn’t want people watching him lose all this weight and going through these events and treating him differently because of it. He was a phenomenal athlete.”

From 2011 until 2017, Usman and Johnson both trained at the now-defunct Blackzilians gym. They remained close till Johnson died.

While Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson had the most success in the light heavyweight division, he also competed as a welterweight, middleweight, and heavyweight.

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