Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of
- Retired ‘Punk’ claims Tom Aspinall is vacating the heavyweight title and getting released from UFC: From what I’ve heard, this rumor is unsubstantiated … but we’ll find out!
- Karate Combat 59 fight card, start time, date and location | Walker vs. Clark: I am genuinely a bit shocked that Karate Combat is holding another event after all the questionable information that’s recently come out about their business.
- Heavyweight? Light Heavyweight champ Alex Pereira teases next UFC fight – ‘1, 2, 3 and go’: Is “Poatan” our only hope at making UFC Heavyweight great again? Is even he up to the task?
Insomnia
It’s good to see some Conor McGregor sparring footage (even brief) that isn’t him pummeling some random Bantamweight lad. Sheridan, age 31, is 4-0 as a pro with two wins in PFL.
Arman Tsarukyan treats Jake Paul to an Armenian feast!
The reason Dustin Poirier’s shift tends to work so well is that his left hand is very heavy, so opponents understandably retreat away from it. In all these clips, conversely, Holloway stances his ground and interrupts the shift.
A pretty solid booking of Top 10-ranked Flyweights:
Carlos Prates living up to his party boy reputation.
Lokdog is already back up around 180 pounds less than a week after his Bantamweight fight — it’s Featherweight time, buddy.
UFC Bantamweight Cody Gibson shares what it’s like to get stem cells injected as part of the recovery process.
Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo was an incredibly high-skilled fight before it devolved into an absolute mauling.
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Everybody thinks that takedowns are the reason MMA generally beats boxing, but low kicks are just as problematic.
Driving into the triangle is a much less effective defense than posturing away from it.
Literally went to sleep before trying to address the hands — that’s bad defense.
Random Land
It’s time for the avian Winter Olympics.
Midnight Music: Synth pop, 1986
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
