Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Monday, Dec. 22, 2o25.
- Taxes?!?!? U.S., Britain claim approximately $66 million of Anthony Joshua’s ‘absurd’ fight purse after vicious Jake Paul knockout: The taxman is as inevitable as the “AJ” KO itself. Joshua was paid very well for a very easy fight, so my sympathy can only go so far here.
- Jake Paul posts X-ray of missing teeth, titanium plates from jaw-breaking loss to Anthony Joshua: Being too fatigued to keep his mouth closed cost Paul in more ways than one.
- Jack Doherty denies instigating brawl with ‘sub 100 IQ’ Andrei Arlovski: ‘I literally didn’t say or do anything’: Gaslight 101.
Insomnia
Melquizael Costa weighed in at 145 pounds ten days ago for UFC Vegas 112. Less than two weeks later, the rising Featherweight contender is up to about 193 pounds!
The logical conclusion of Manel Kape’s own trash talk choices.
Waldo Cortes-Acosta emptying
the gas tank on mitt work:
Carlos Prates visited Jiri Prochazka in the Czech Republic, and the two knockout artists traded some knowledge.
In fights or in sparring, Ilia Topuria’s boxing is so smooth.
Daniel Cormier might throw his back out sneezing, but based on his recent training footage in Thailand, he could still be a Top 10 Heavyweight in 2026 if he so chooses.
Slips, rips, and KO clips
The video angle hides a lot of the question mark, but a great high kick KO all the same.
Looks like a big gap in size and strength.
Yamauchi has been fighting tough opponents for a long time, but he’s only 32 years old!
Random Land
Anybody else struck by the symbolism here? Two rats, a surplus of food, struggling rather than cooperating, the train only minutes (seconds?) away from destroying them …
Midnight Music: Gothic, 2025
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
