Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight! 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 […]
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Thad Jean has big plans for his PFL future, and the next step is his toughest test to date. Jean faces former Bellator welterweight champion Jason Jackson in the main event of PFL Nashville on Thursday. The bout serves as a semifinal matchup in the division’s World Tournament, with the […]
Former bantamweight champion Petr Yan is set to face Marcus McGhee at Abu Dhabi on July 26 on the Robert Whittaker vs Reinier de Ridder card. Yan enters the fight on a two-fight win streak, having recently defeated Deiveson Figueiredo and Song Yadong, respectively. Those victories were the perfect response to a three-fight losing streak […]
Merab Dvalishvili successfully defended his bantamweight title this past Saturday at UFC 316 versus former champion Sean O’Malley, and he is already looking ahead at what’s next. While O’Malley was able to defend the advanced wrestling of Dvalishvili on numerous occasions in the match, the Georgian would eventually get the fight to the ground, overwhelmingly […]
Jesus Pinedo knocked out Gabriel Braga in 2023 | Scott Taetsch, PFL Jesus Pinedo is looking for a statement victory when he faces Gabriel Braga on June 12 in Nashville, competing for a spot in the 2025 PFL featherweight tournament finals. Pinedo and Braga first met in April 2023, when Braga entered as a short-notice […]
Photo by Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight! Welcome to Midnight Mania! Let’s start things off by looking back at the three biggest stories from earlier today: Photos of Kayla Harrison’s grueling weight cut were released and they’re downright terrifying. Maybe UFC should […]
Merab Dvalishvili is still the UFC bantamweight champion after submitting Sean O’Malley in the third round of their rematch in the main event of UFC 316. While it appears Dvalishvili will defend his title against Cory Sandhagen next, where does O’Malley go after losing to Dvalishvili for the second straight time? On an all-new edition […]
The UFC has confirmed two cards for October, starting at UFC 320 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on October 4, while a Fight Night card is scheduled for Vancouver, Canada, on October 22. UFC 320 was initially set for September 13 in Guadalajara, Mexico, as the third Noche UFC card. However, construction delays at […]
Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Two more major UFC shows are set for October During Saturday’s UFC 316 broadcast, the promotion announced the UFC 320 pay-per-view card is set to place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 4, and a Fight Night event at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada, is set for Oct. 22. […]
Tonight in New Jersey, many had thought that If Merab Dvalishvili was going to defeat Sean O’Malley for a second time, that it would be by decision again, but that all changed when the bantamweight champion cinched in a choke in the 3rd round. O’Malley originally dropped the title to Dvalishvili in September 2024, after […]