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Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start things off by looking back at the three biggest stories from earlier today:
- Malcolm Wellmaker is coming in at a record-setting -2500 betting favorite for his fight with Kris Moutinho this weekend at UFC Atlanta. Those are the biggest odds in UFC history, which now puts Wellmaker in the hot seat in just his second UFC appearance.
- UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili was mobbed by fans upon his return to Georgia. If fellow Georgian fighter, Ilia Topuria, is able to win UFC gold yet again at UFC 317 later this month then the promotion will have to try very hard to host an event in the Georgia.
- Kamaru Usman has mapped out a path to a middleweight showdown with current UFC champion Dricus du Plessis. It all starts with a victory over Joaquin Buckley this weekend at UFC Atlanta, but it will be Usman’s first trip to the cage since October 2023. The pressure is on.
Insomnia
Looks like former UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira is back in fight camp. Who do you think “Poatan” is fighting next?
Daniel Cormier has had enough of Jon Jones ducking Tom Aspinall.
Daniel Cormier goes off on Jon Jones
“You’re talking about me, Francis, Chael, and almost ignoring the right thing… If I was still fighting today, and I was still the heavyweight champion and Tom Aspinall was the #1 contender, I would’ve already fought him. 1000%.”
— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) June 11, 2025
Kris Moutinho is looking for some serious redemption this weekend at UFC Atlanta, especially as a HUGE underdog.
Kris Moutinho details how he ended up in a very dark place after UFC release:
“I was very close to ending this thing.” pic.twitter.com/BBdaPPhkqN
— MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) June 11, 2025
Worst take of the week?
Sean O’Malley’s podcast co-host suggests a fight with Umar Nurmagomedov
“I think Umar’s a perfect matchup. You’ve improved enough to handle his grappling, and I think you would knock Umar out.”
: @SugaSeanMMA pic.twitter.com/8TkDboTU8X
— Red Corner MMA (@RedCorner_MMA) June 11, 2025
This is pretty cool.
UFC Fighter Antonio Trocoli Places 6th at The World Series Of Poker Colossus earning $122,330
pic.twitter.com/rJz2VopbIh— Kevin (@realkevink) June 11, 2025
Here’s the early fight poster for Canelo vs. Crawford on Netflix!
.@Canelo vs @terencecrawford is LIVE GLOBALLY on @netflix!!!!
Stream it September 13th #CaneloCrawford pic.twitter.com/70GVa2O7c0
— danawhite (@danawhite) June 11, 2025
Rate this promo from 1-10.
It all comes to down to this.
KATIE TAYLOR vs. AMANDA SERRANO 3 is coming LIVE on Netflix, Friday July 11 at 8 pm ET | 5 pm PT pic.twitter.com/yqru87AD9F
— Netflix (@netflix) June 11, 2025
Secret Service had eyes on Merab Dvalishvili when he celebrated with President Donald Trump at UFC 316.
They were gonna shoot Merab pic.twitter.com/ywXf8t6rJx
— Casual MMA (@CasualMMAinc) June 11, 2025
Are you interested in seeing Aljamain Sterling in either one of these matchups?
| Aljamain Sterling tells @arielhelwani that he’d like to return in August against one of Brian Ortega or Arnold Allen. pic.twitter.com/YSlg4ymoPj
— MMA Orbit (@mma_orbit) June 11, 2025
Cody Garbrandt with an all-around new look for UFC Atlanta.
#UFCAtlanta‘s Cody Garbrandt explains his new face tattoo: “Full send. F*ck it.” pic.twitter.com/xhXqWofHCv
— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) June 11, 2025
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Indian fighters competing inside of the Octagon just can’t catch a break.
This one got the boss OUT OF HIS SEAT
Imanol Rodriguez gets the first round finish!
[ #TUF33 airs on Tuesday | 10pmET ] pic.twitter.com/Fmkwj3Ug8B
— The Ultimate Fighter (@UltimateFighter) June 11, 2025
Is this the greatest robot knockout artist of all time?
The announcers make this 1000x better pic.twitter.com/pmVDkX6ZjM
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 11, 2025
Random Land
What word did you get?
First word you see? pic.twitter.com/6gE0lI2QcQ
— The Best (@Thebestfigen) June 11, 2025
Sleep well, Maniacs! More MMA madness will be on the way.