Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Monday, Sept. 8, 2025.
- Bonuses! UFC Paris card sets record with nine total knockout finishes: UFC Paris was a lot of fun top-to-bottom. The main event was the relative sore thumb, but even that was a pretty decent fight in my book.
- Pic: UFC Noche’s Sedriques Dumas shares bank account, reveals he’s broke – ‘Price of being a adult’: We complain about fighter pay all the time, but the average UFC athlete doesn’t have Sedriques Dumas’ lawyer bills.
- Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford official video trailer drops for Sept. 13 Netflix fight | Video: On a scale of 1-10, how excited are you for Canelo vs. Crawford?
Insomnia
Brian Ortega confirms that he was unconscious for 30 minutes as a result of his weight cut! He spent eight hours of cutting weight and was only 1.7 pounds away from the 146-pound limit when disaster struck. There’s no way “T-City” would’ve been allowed to fight anywhere with an actual commission …
If being nice to Tommy Fury is
a prerequisite for fighting him, I do believe Darren Till has disqualified himself from the runnings.
Terrence Crawford getting ready for those infamous Canelo body shots …
The greatest dream of every UFC fighter is to cross into the boxing ring and make way more money. It’s a little sad, isn’t it?
A lot of people don’t realize that Mason Jones has an extensive Judo background despite his preference for throwing hands.
This would be a great Islam Makhachev roast were it not for the fact that it’s surely his manager tweeting this crap.
Tim Elliott strangling Kai Asakura with a broken leg is a baller move. But also, if you needed confirmation that Asakura hits hard, here it is!
Get Patricio Pitbull on the UFC Rio card after his Paris misadventure!
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Great angle on the opening hook and then a nasty follow up!
Americana from bottom position is very difficult to hit, let alone produce a break. Not a clip for the squeamish …
A massive difference in speed and power:
Random Land
Now more than ever, this Vonnegut passage feels prescient.
Midnight Music: Country, 2025
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
