Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Earth Day 2026!
- WARNING! Ronda Rousey cash grab expected to backfire for Netflix, send fed-up fight fans back to UFC: I expect the MVP MMA debut to do serious numbers, but I’ve been wrong before.
- UFC (finally) dumps Colby Covington from official welterweight rankings, debuts Mike Malott at No. 11: At this point, it feels fairly likely that Colby Covington is retired/only competing for RAF in the immediate future.
- Brian Ortega breaks silence on toxic Tracy Cortez relationship: ‘I was never at peace’: The inevitable Cortez tell-all is going to be hilarious, I just know it.
Insomnia
This feels like a sentiment that only applies if you’re one of the greatest athletes to ever step into the Octagon. For everybody else, roadwork and hill sprints are a good idea.
What are the odds Conor McGregor rocks a bottle of Proper 12 at his next UFC presser? Nobody will tell him otherwise.
Given Khamzat’s time at Middleweight is apparently short, training with the current champion doesn’t feel like such a bad idea for Brendan Allen.
Not every sudden odds swing is an Isaac Dulgarian situation.
Paulo Costa is built to eat Southpaws.
Four months into 2026, why hasn’t UFC booked one of their brightest young stars?
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Kicking from the back foot isn’t an easy skill to master (particularly in MMA), but a well-timed kick counter is a thing of beauty.
The seemingly unstoppable James Llontop just got finished in less than two minutes.
After years of dominance, 45-year-old Mamed Khalidov has now lost his last two Middleweight title fights in KSW.
Random Land
In rock climbing, we call falling a long way on low-angle rock a “cheese grater” fall.
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Midnight Music: Indie rock, 2003
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