Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n
Song Yadong hints that his next opponent is Sean O\u2019Malley? Yet another banger Bantamweight match up.<\/p>\n
Frankie Edgar has no idea what he signed up for.<\/p>\n
On a related note, this is a great prompt. I like Joaquin Buckley generally but the McGregor callout wasn\u2019t his finest moment. Reaching deeper into the memory banks, Jacob Volkmann calling out Barack Obama was a bad one!<\/p>\n
Reinier de Ridder names Caio Borralho as the odd man out in the crowded Middleweight title mix, but that changes instantly with a UFC Paris victory.<\/p>\n
Horrific views from the regional scene. Anyone in the medical industry want to tell me what we\u2019re looking at here?!?<\/p>\n
Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n
Down on the cards, Fabian Edwards landed a head kick KO three years TO THE DAY that his brother Leon pulled off his own legendary head shot.<\/p>\n
The slow-mo really helps accentuate the small angles taken between punches.<\/p>\n
About as mean as a rear naked choke can be!<\/p>\n
Midnight Music: Blues rock, 1971<\/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":89130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,43768,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-89129","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-sports","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89129","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=89129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}