MMA Mania opened its daily discussion thread Thursday with a mix of combat sports talk and summer listening recommendations.<\/p>\n
The thread, posted by Tim Edwards, featured highlights from Japanese sumo wrestling’s Nagoya basho, including a bout between Yoshinofuji and Aonishiki. Edwards also shared British grindcore band Napalm Death’s recent Tiny Desk concert performance, calling it good stuff.<\/p>\n
Fighter Updates and UFC Oklahoma City Preview<\/p>\n
Among the MMA news linked in the thread, flyweight<\/a> contender Alex Perez provided an update on a testicular injury. The site also covered Michael Bisping’s latest acting project, which now has a trailer available.<\/p>\n MMA Mania’s Andrew posted predictions for the upcoming UFC Oklahoma City card. The open thread serves as a daily hub for off-topic conversation among the site’s readers, mixing fight news with broader entertainment and sports content.<\/p>\n Photo: Michael Bisping \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, CC BY 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA Mania opened its daily discussion thread Thursday with a mix of combat sports talk and summer listening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-804157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804157","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=804157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}