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Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.
- Jake Paul vs. Tank Davis full fight card, Netflix start time: This post being our top story of the day tells you all you need to know about excitement levels for UFC Perth.
- Conor McGregor sets his White House price: $100 million and 100 ‘Golden Visas’: At this stage of Conor McGregor’s life/career, what amount of money would even be life changing? It would have to be a gargantuan sum.
- Bloated UFC Perth forced to slash ticket prices after ‘disappointing’ sales: … this also tells you all you need to know about excitement levels for UFC Perth.
Insomnia
Tom Aspinall has received The Rock’s co-sign for WWE Superstardom. Think it ever happens somewhere down the line, and if so, what would Aspinall’s angle be?
It’s great to see UFC investing in their Heavyweight division after a couple years of stagnancy and malaise.
Tenshin Nasukawa will officially get his chance to capture boxing gold this November in Tokyo.
Tai Tuivasa, the ideal analogue for Islam Makhachev.
This is a great answer to the “beating opponent at their own game” prompt. A couple others that come to mind for me that I haven’t seen mentioned yet are GSP vs. Koscheck 1 and Jake Shields vs. Demian Maia.
Megan Olivi — alongside husband Joseph Benavidez and new baby Vito — tossing out the first pitch at the Padres game!
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Per legend, the great Joe Louis was in a hurry to win this fight so he could get back to his wife of less than a dozen hours and celebrate their wedding night. A little extra venom in those right hands …
You can very easily walk away from a bare knuckle boxing match with an entirely new appearance.
Throwing incredibly powerful straight shots in the middle of absolute chaos — that’s Jiri Prochazka.
Random Land
Happy Fat Bear Week to those who celebrate!
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 1999
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
Category: General Sports
