Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025.
- Busted! Conor McGregor suspended 18 months for UFC anti-doping violation : Missing a few tests feels like an excellent way to save face when using a banned substance. Remember how McGregor dipped in-and-out of the testing pool a few years back? Should’ve stayed out a bit longer.
- Raja Jackson gets felony battery charges and ‘sentencing enhancement’ in Syko Stu assault: For the many people who were concerned that justice wouldn’t be done — this feels like a step in the right direction, no?
- UFC Rio on high alert after mass methanol poisoning rocks Brazil — ‘Unlike anything in our history’: It’s actually not the first poisoning in UFC history.
Insomnia
If you didn’t catch Adrian Luna Martinetti vs. Mark Vologdin earlier tonight
on Contenders Series, do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing! Quite possibly the best fight in the show’s history, and Dana White awarded both combatants a UFC contract and bonus $25k for their efforts. Some highlights and Dana’s announcement below:
I think Sean O’Malley’s takes and reactions to Merab Dvalishvili’s continued greatness have been either accurate or funny.
Fight fans online are laughing themselves silly imaging Renato Moicano as the one fighter who applied for his payout after the deadline.
Combat sports royalty meets up ahead of Tenshin Nasukawa’s first championship boxing match next month.
How does everyone feel about this weekend’s UFC Rio card? Three high quality fights atop the card, and Carpenter vs. Filho on the “Prelims” should be a banger as well.
Jiri Prochazka reaction gifs should be a staple of one’s online presence.
Amusing, but is anyone surprised that a BKFC combatant is having trouble with the law? It doesn’t feel like the first career choice of many.
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Jarred Brooks has a longstanding bad habit of shooting into guillotines, and Malachiev finished the strange by converting into a north-south choke.
Left hand just sneaks over the glove and lands directly on the chin:
A nice, quick example of how hard left kicks can convince an opponent to walk into counters.
Random Land
Planting a tree.
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 1996
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
