Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Monday, Jan. 26, 2026.<\/p>\n
I saw several people wondering if Jean Silva did something illegal by leaping off Arnold Allen\u2019s back. Per John McCarthy, the answer is: not really? Had he kicked the spine rather than jump off it, that would definitely be illegal.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed Pimblett vs. Gaethje, but it was hard to take seriously as UFC title fight (interim or not).<\/p>\n
This is a trip down memory road! Here\u2019s my (potentially flawed) recollection of the hilarious Dong Hyun Kim vs. Erick Silva fight: Silva is the way better striker and is athletic enough to mostly defend the takedowns. He swings absolutely wildly and bludgeons \u201cStun Gun\u201d quite a bit. Unfortunately, beating up the South Korean is tiring, and he\u2019s gassed six minutes in. Kim tries the jumping front kick eight times (or was it the spinning backfist?) and then bombs Silva with a one punch KO.<\/p>\n
If anyone has seen the fight more recently than 13 years ago, please tell me how I did in the comments!<\/p>\n
Craig Jones and Mauricio Ruffy training together ahead of Ruffy\u2019s bout versus Rafael Fiziev:<\/p>\n
Tyson Fury will do any kind of combat sports training except eat a salad.<\/p>\n
Sean O\u2019Malley vs. Cory Sandhagen is long overdue. Or \u201cSuga\u201d vs. Umar Nurmagomedov. No waiting around for a title shot!<\/p>\n
Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n
Ex-UFC, Bellator, and PFL Featherweight Kai Kamaka may have just punched his ticket back to the Octagon.<\/p>\n
For ladies who aren\u2019t natural power punchers like Amanda Nunes and Jessica Andrade \u2014 AKA most women \u2014 knees and elbows in the clinch are one of the more reliable ways to score knockouts.<\/p>\n
Body-head combinations set up a massive knee:<\/p>\n
Midnight Music: Noise rock, 2018<\/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":435905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,36145,638,82,153471,702],"class_list":["post-435904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-midnight-mania","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-324","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}