Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, June 5, 2025.
- Free UFC 316 PPV? ‘It’s so easy to stream it,’ says Sean O’Malley, ‘You just enter the link; boom, it’s right there’: Sean O’Malley is correct, of course, but this is just generally true of the modern internet: most copyrighted content can be found so easily. I had to learn how to torrent files as a teen!
- Alexander Volkanovski shares next title defense update: ‘The rumors are true’: Yair Rodriguez receiving the next Featherweight shot would truly be all-time bad matchmaking. Send Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby to the Hague!
- Ex-NFL star and UFC outcast Greg Hardy arrested for allegedly assaulting a family member: Shocking that getting knocked out a few times didn’t quell Hardy’s alleged violent tendencies.
Insomnia
Listen to the audio closely here for a sample of “Big Mouth” at his finest. “Sex is better after a war,” Kevin Holland tells Vicente Luque. “You don’t think so? Or you don’t have sex?”
I genuinely didn’t remember Kamaru Usman’s undefeated streak going THAT long, and I was watching/writing about the whole thing!
Arman Tsarukyan lives a bougie lifestyle outside of fighting.
Rightful UFC contender Arman Tsarukyan is having black Beluga caviar for lunch in Red Square in Moscow. Each bite is like 300 bucks. And how are you doing MMA Twitter? pic.twitter.com/FSnej7tcY5
— PAM (@ParamPam1990) June 4, 2025
Chase Hooper vs. Alexander Hernandez at UFC 319 … from the horse’s mouth! I like Hooper to lose the first and win the next two rounds or possibly force a late finish.
Patchy Mix is talking really big game ahead of UFC 316, putting himself in a win-or-be-embarrassed position. Exciting!
️Patchy Mix on Mario Bautista:
“I’m a three-time world champion. This guy’s a journeyman fighter. I’ll submit him — and whoever’s teaching him jiu-jitsu, I’ll submit the whole crew.”@ufc pic.twitter.com/vlnR3pTfgD
— Red Corner MMA (@RedCorner_MMA) June 2, 2025
I recommend treating this line of thinking with some random pro Flyweight.
Visualization is a powerful tool! It’s hard to favor anyone’s chances against Merab right now, but Sean O’Malley has a reasonable shot at catching anyone on the Bantamweight roster.
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Very few boxers have entered the matrix quite like Vasiliy Lomachenko. Enjoy retirement, champ!
Incredible crowd atmosphere on this KO:
Same side head kicks following a straight are always dangerous, but the half-a-beat pause on this one is SLICK stuff.
Random Land
Frightening explosions in Kyiv.
BREAKING NEWS: Kyiv Ukraine is currently under heavy bombardment as powerful explosions hit their capital. Russia is attacking full force. pic.twitter.com/LaApSgLNCK
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) June 6, 2025
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 2001
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.
This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
