Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
- Highlights! Antonio Rogerio Nogueira scores knockout over a fitness influencer (again): Knocking out hapless influencers might be the best possible combat sports retirement.
- Even more UFC fighters come forward, admit offers to take dives: ‘My integrity could never’: I’m really looking forward to seeing how far the fallout goes with this latest betting scandal.
- Conor McGregor replaced in Road House 2 by same UFC fighter who knocked him out: How many angry tweets will this news create?
Insomnia
Who would you like to see Jean Silva face in his return to action? There’s
a lot of potential firefights for him from Steve Garcia to Josh Emmett.
Drama from the Tom Aspinall camp …
David Onama reacts to one of the most one-sided main event losses of the year. Can “Silent Assassin” bounce back?
We’ve got intentional fight fixing and unpunished intentional fouling. What a time to be alive!
Calf kicks have changed the game in more than one sport.
Each of these gave me a chuckle.
A different style of eye poke than we usually complain about:
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Toes to the belly hurt so bad — might as well go home!
Lopez quite literally walked into this uppercut.
This is a rare example of a proactive Von Flue. Klimsa didn’t counter a guillotine; he maneuvered his arms into that position himself.
Random Land
Anyone else reminded of “Rampage” on TUF?
Midnight Music: Jazz, 1969
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
