Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Monday, Aug. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n
Frankie Edgar, who retired in November 2022 on the heels of three consecutive knockout losses, will return to action in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship opposite a very good boxer in UFC veteran Jimmie Rivera. As a long time \u201cIron\u201d fanboy, this is perhaps the worst news I\u2019ve ever encountered.<\/p>\n
Is Khamzat already in a position where he can call his shots? I would definitely watch him fight de Ridder in October, even if that wouldn\u2019t necessarily be my first choice.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t disagree with Kamaru Usman\u2019s take here, the Dricus Du Plessis team definitely underestimated Chimaev\u2019s wrestling and preparation to their own massive detriment.<\/p>\n
I do so enjoy giggling at the angry outbursts of a busted parlay.<\/p>\n
Conversely, I have to admit that Belal Muhammad made me chuckle here. Maybe getting booed in Chicago gave him motivation to work on his joke writing?<\/p>\n
Depressed DDP pounding brewskis aside, why did somebody stick their finger in his drink?<\/p>\n
Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n
The rare double soccer kick KO:<\/p>\n
Lead right hand for the first knockdown, show the lead right to come in with the jab for knockdown #2 \u2014 lovely boxing!<\/p>\n
Full guard, arm-in guillotine jumps aren\u2019t supposed to work!<\/p>\n
They brought Courage The Cowardly Dog to life!<\/p>\n
Midnight Music: Art pop,1985<\/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":79190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,34465,786,40762,43768,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-79189","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-bare-knuckle-boxing","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-midnight-mania","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79189","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=79189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}