Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Friday, Sept. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n
Petr Yan has settled into being a composed veteran fighter and former champion, but I think we can eventually expect his son to bring that menacing \u201cNo Mercy\u201d energy that saw Yan rise up the ranks to gold.<\/p>\n
It sure looks like Charles Oliveira intends to wrestle vs. Rafael Fiziev at UFC Rio, which reads like a wise decision given the Topuria KO.<\/p>\n
Happy anniversary to the Poiriers!<\/p>\n
The best part of watching The Smashing Machine will be all the fighter cameos. El Guapo!<\/p>\n
UFC Bantamweight champions historically do not have a good relationship with shoulders.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much interest in a Josh Thomson vs. Tony Ferguson rematch all these years later, but maybe I\u2019m wrong?<\/p>\n
Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n
Some of y\u2019all don\u2019t remember how good a young, scrappy Luke Rockhold was back in Strikeforce, and that\u2019s a shame \u2014 I had intended to post a highlight clip of Jacare vs. Rockhold below, but it refused to embed, so here\u2019s the whole fight!<\/p>\n
Swang-and-banging is best punctuated by a head kick.<\/p>\n
Does Paul Craig have one last miracle submission in him?<\/p>\n
I would imagine slowing down might be difficult.<\/p>\n
Midnight Music: Post-rock, 2000<\/p>\n
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Midnight Mania! Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,43768,785,8081,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-122507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-midnight-mania","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}