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.
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.
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 1996
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
