Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Friday, Dec. 12, 2025.
- New Street Fighter movie drops first teaser trailer feat. UFC champ Alex Volkanovski: Do we expect Street Fighter to be better or worse than the Roadhouse remake?
- UFC White House will be on Paramount+ not CBS or PPV with no ticket sales: For my fellow fight fans without cable, 2026 is our year!
- Report: Former champion Brandon Moreno returns at UFC Mexico just two months after getting finished: Brandon Moreno is still one of his division’s best, and I expect a dominant performance against Asu Almabayev.
Insomnia
As far as I’m aware, this is the first time Arman Tsarukyan has admitted
that what went wrong with his planned UFC title shot versus Islam Makhachev was weight-related rather than a back injury. If so, it helps explain why Dana White has been so slow to forgive him …
Jiri Prochazka celebrates his gender reveal as only “The Czech Samurai” can!
Derrick Lewis is the most honest man in combat sports.
Jake Paul’s bag work is looking better than ever … for whatever that’s worth against Anthony Joshua.
I’m still interested to see how high up the Flyweight ladder Wang Cong can climb.
Cody Garbrandt in Dad Mode:
A great bit of storytelling from Kamaru Usman, who really helps you feel what it’s like to “wake up” from a knockout loss an hour after you’ve been walking and talking.
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Jab-lead hook immediately seals the deal.
Raising the guard and then ripping the liver — beautiful work!
Another example of a fighter getting KO’d trying to throw a naked low kick in the very first exchange. You gotta at least feint!
Random Land
From my amateur perspective, this looks more like controlled falling than riding.
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 2025
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
