{"id":319699,"date":"2025-12-01T02:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319699\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:19:15","slug":"best-of-the-best-mmamania-coms-ufc-mma-week-in-review-personal-problems-torpedoed-ufc-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319699\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Best: MMAmania.com\u2019s UFC\/MMA week in review \u2013 \u2018Personal Problems\u2019 Torpedoed UFC 324"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to \u201cThis Week in MMAmania.com<\/a>,\u201d Maniacs!<\/p>\n

As you know, MMAmania.com<\/a> churns out a ridiculous amount of stories weekly. And if you don\u2019t refresh this site constantly, you might just miss an amazing story<\/a>. Or, if you don\u2019t go read the comments section on each story, you might miss a wisecrack that will leave you LOL\u2019ing.<\/p>\n

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But, don\u2019t trip \u2014 we\u2019ve got you covered. This weekly article will recap the best of MMAmania.com<\/a>, reviewing the most-read stories, comments, social media posts, etc.<\/p>\n

So, sit back and take a gander at the madness of the week that was \u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Article of the Week<\/p>\n

Last week, the story that got the most eyeballs was UFC Lightweight champion Ilia Topuria revealing he didn\u2019t want to hold up the division due to \u201cpersonal problems<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"MMAmania.com<\/a> \u2018Comment(s) of the Week\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking of Topuria, all signs pointed to him headlining UFC 324<\/a> until he wasn\u2019t (check out who is here\u2026if you don\u2019t know<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, our lovely readers don\u2019t love his inactivity.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"Tweet(s) of the Week:<\/p>\n

MMA fans were missing cage fighting this weekend.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fighter \u2018Comment of the Week\u2019 \u2014 He said what?!?!?!<\/p>\n

Fan-favorite Diego Lopes is doing a speed run to become hated fairly quickly, as he told everyone critical of him getting an undeserved title shot to stop crying.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sure bud!<\/p>\n

Best \u2018Feed\u2019 Post<\/p>\n

Shoutout to cavemanoncomputer for \u201cThe Importance of Self Promotion (or how to talk your way to a title shot)<\/a>\u201d\u2014 check it out.<\/p>\n

Picture of the Week<\/p>\n

SpongeBob made an appearance in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Parade.<\/p>\n

\"\"Unseen \u2018Knockout of the Week\u2019<\/p>\n

Nasty.<\/p>\n

\"\"Best \u2018Prediction of the Week\u2019<\/p>\n

I predicted I would eat three plates for Thanksgiving and only got through two.<\/p>\n

LOSER.<\/p>\n

\"\"Random \u2018Stat or Fact of the Week\u2019<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old \u2014 He was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey.<\/p>\n

Fight Announcement of the Week:<\/p>\n

UFC 324 was FINALLY announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This Past Week in MMA History:<\/p>\n

UFC Beijing<\/a> \u2013 Nov. 24, 2016<\/p>\n

Curtis Blaydes drew Francis Ngannou in his UFC debut back in 2016 (he lost) and then got his chance to rematch him in 2018 \u2014 he lost again.<\/p>\n

On the same Beijing Fight Night, Alistair Overeem welcomed Sergei Pavlovich to the UFC and ended up stopping him in the first round.<\/p>\n

UFC Shanghai<\/a> \u2013 Nov. 25, 2017<\/p>\n

Eight years ago, Kelvin Gastelum retired Michael Bisping, knocking him out in under three minutes.<\/p>\n

UFC Melbourne <\/a>\u2013 Nov. 27, 2016<\/p>\n

One of the loudest crowd reactions in UFC history happened when Robert Whittaker knocked out Derek Brunson in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

On the same card, Alexander Volkanovski made his UFC debut \u2026 at Lightweight.<\/p>\n

Watch the entire main card below:<\/p>\n

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To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to \u201cThis Week in MMAmania.com,\u201d Maniacs! As you know, MMAmania.com churns out a ridiculous amount of stories…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,60364],"class_list":{"0":"post-319699","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-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-lightweight-champion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319699","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=319699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}