Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, June 11, 2026.

Georges St. Pierre will class up Sunday’s event to a significant degree.

Derrick Lewis is well-prepared for all the potential challenges of the UFC White House experience.

Maybe we do live in a simulation after all.

Edson Barboza is allergic to taking easy fights. I just wish this were the Barboza of 2017 or so …

You never know what you’re going to see on the regional scene.

Merab Dvalishvili rides in style.

Bas Rutten explains how to land the perfect clinch uppercut:

Slips, rips, and KO clips

Absolutely no defense even attempted to this arm-in guillotine choke:

I am strongly reminded of Mark Hunt’s armbar attempt on Ben Rothwell in perhaps the tiredest UFC fight of all time.

He gave his opponent fair warning …

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