Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Friday, Sept. 18, 2026.
- Video: Former WWE star Jack Swagger sheds tears of blood after second straight Power Slap loss: There just have to be better ways to make a living. Jack Swagger was popular!
- Sean Sharaf calls Gable Steveson a ‘rapist’ to his face: ‘That’s why everyone is booing him’ | UFC 331: Things will likely go terribly for him tomorrow night, but I walk away from UFC 331 as a Sharaf fan regardless.
- UFC White House official: Justin Gaethje’s gloves were checked ‘by multiple inspectors’: Sorry Ilia, but I think there’s an abundance of evidence that Gaethje just has dense fists and shins.
Insomnia
To the surprise of nobody, Khamzat Chimaev was able to quickly dispatch Gilbert Burns on the RAF mats, winning via second-round tech fall. How about a jiu-jitsu match?!?
The ongoing negotiations between Paulo Costa and the UFC are growing uglier by the day!
I was already sold on Giga Chikadze vs. Joanderson Brito being a banger, but a bit of bad blood never hurts!
As I type this, my teammate Namiki Kawahara is setting up a hotpot in our hotel room ahead of his fight tomorrow evening. Some aspects of fighting never change!
I immediately identified this clip as one of two people, but I guessed wrong (answer below the final sentence of this article).
Me and like three other people were really impressed by Tommy Gannt last weekend at Noche UFC 4. It was largely miserable to watch but still high-level stuff!
Hype FC is allegedly scamming The Fighting Nerds for big bucks.
Slips, rips, and KO clips
That’s a nasty knockout for an amateur fight.
30 seconds is a long sprint, let alone for men this big.
Igor did several things correctly while defending this choke, but dos Santos did well to hang on and keep squeezing throughout the scramble.
Random Land
A fun Tito clip to accompany this interesting quiz. Where are ya’ll living?
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Midnight Music: Synth pop, 2011
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
*I thought it was Alexander Volkanovski, but the double jab clip was GSP!
