{"id":548390,"date":"2026-03-20T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548390\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:59:08","slug":"midnight-mania-not-retired-showtime-shipping-off-to-kazakhstan-for-mma-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548390\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Mania! Not-Retired \u2018Showtime\u2019 Shipping Off To Kazakhstan For MMA Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of\u00a0Thursday, March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Insomnia<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anthony Pettis hasn\u2019t fought since an August 2022 loss to Stevie Ray in PFL, but the MMA legend is back! He\u2019ll take on Adil Boranbayev (23-13-1) in his home country of Kazakhstan on June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Movsar Evloev isn\u2019t a serious finishing threat, but he\u2019s not inactive either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s hard to imagine there could possibly be a conflict of egos between John and Tyson Fury. Impossible!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I would prefer to see Robert Whittaker make his Light Heavyweight debut against somebody other than one of the three actually good 205-pounders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brunno Ferreira was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-326-live-stream-results-holloway-oliveira-2-mma\/427302\/watch-ufc-326-video-highlights-results-las-vegas-paramount-bmf-rodrigues-knockout-ferreira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:flatlined less than two weeks ago;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;flatlined less than two weeks ago&quot;}\" class=\"link \">flatlined less than two weeks ago<\/a> and is already signing fight contracts? Gotta love UFC matchmaking!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If you\u2019re Jon Jones \u2026 why respond to this?<\/p>\n<p>Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If you don\u2019t control posture, the guard is meaningless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Excellent use of the Gable Grip to break down the opponent and enable an adjustment into the RNC grip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Turned off in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>Random Land<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I don\u2019t mean to be lazy, but I think the following posts encompass both the usual Random and Music aspects of this section simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[9898,49,48,641,111988,1866,638,15959,1867,82,213448,5513],"class_list":["post-548390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-anthony-pettis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-john-fury","tag-jon-jones","tag-mma","tag-robert-whittaker","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-stevie-ray","tag-tyson-fury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548390","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=548390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}