Midnight Mania! Bloated Tai Tuivasa goes viral, fans mourn skidding Heavyweight’s future

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Let’s begin the night time off by having a look again over the three greatest tales of Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

Report: ‘Fed up’ Tank Davis retired from boxing ‘until his cash runs low’: There may be completely zero probability that Davis manages his cash nicely sufficient to by no means battle once more.

Ilia Topuria ‘pulling a Jon Jones’ by ducking Arman, creating ‘new model’ of UFC’s Aspinall ‘saga’ — ‘It’s not look’: If Topuria refuses to battle Arman after Tsarukyan’s subsequent victory, it’s an issue.

Please cease calling Tom Aspinall UFC’s finest heavyweight till he survives ‘deep waters’ of Jailton Almeida: Jailton Almeida deserves to be taken extra critically as a title risk just by being a Heavyweight who doesn’t fuel out after seven minutes.

Insomnia

Is anybody feeling assured in Tai Tuivasa’s comeback run? “Bam Bam” continues to be solely 32 years of age, however he doesn’t appear that involved about his present five-fight shedding streak.

Jon Jones shall be in courtroom explaining away that pesky telephone name audio earlier than later.

This peewee Capoeira class is concurrently very cute but in addition mildly traumatic given my very own (reasonably completely different and extra chaotic) expertise educating youngsters’s martial arts.

I just like the idea, however all I actually obtained from that is that Islam Dulatov is simply too well mannered to name his fellow athletes ugly.

I wrote a bit about this battle in my profession recap of Dustin Poirier, however Josh Grispi was speculated to battle Jose Aldo for the UFC title! As a substitute, some comparatively unheralded younger punk from Louisiana entrance kicked the unholy crap out of him.

Michael Morales vs. Leon Edwards subsequent?

This goofing round has no bearing on an actual battle, but it surely’s nonetheless wild to see Stipe Miocic manhandled!

Slips, rips, and KO clips

Though there are undeniably Strickland features to his recreation (the parrying, the jab), Welterweight Sean Strickland is sort of unrecognizable at 15-0, 23 years of age. It’s exhausting to consider he’s a pre-Reebok deal fighter, the Strickland we all know and love (or not) confirmed up in 2020 … I used to be round the entire time, but it surely feels pretend watching again the pre-COVID clips!

Examine these two clips to see why falling ahead/shifting into the cross is each a foul concept defensively and why so many MMA fighters are prepared to take that gamble.

Random Land

Thor Bjornsson persevering with to throw gigantic weights round.

Midnight Music: Entice, 2019

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