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Think you can figure out which UFC fighter we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation UFC in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re switching to a system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each new article. That way, you can catch up if you miss a day.

Game instructions are at the bottom if you’re new to the game!

What we need from you

1. Play the game
2. Share your result in the comments and on social media
3. Provide feedback (Google Form or in comments below)

Today’s UFC in-5 game

Monday’s UFC in-5 game

Sunday’s UFC in-5 game

Saturday’s UFC in-5 game

The goal of the game is to guess the correct random UFC fighter player with the help of up to five clues. We’ll mix in BOTH ACTIVE AND RETIRED FIGHTERS. It won’t be easy to figure it out in one or two guesses, but some of you might be able to nail it. It will be a mix of well-known players and some “that guys” that we haven’t thought of in some time. The game will appear in slot #3 of the MMA Fighting layout each morning, with occasional movement later in the day.

After you correctly guess the player, you can click “Share Results” to share how you did down in the comments and on social media.

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Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight!

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Wanderlei Silva is one of the most accomplished fighters of all time.

“The Ax Murderer” rose to prominence as an absolute force in the PRIDE ring, putting together the longest unbeaten streak in the promotion’s history and stomping his way to four title defenses. The legendary bruiser joined the UFC roster in 2007 with his best years behind him, but he still managed to defeat some quality opposition like Michael Bisping and Brian Stann in his six years on the roster. Earlier this year, the 48-year-old Brazilian was recently inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame despite having previously been banned by Dana White.

He walked away from fighting in 2018 and officially retired in 2022.

Sadly, Silva is suffering serious health concerns after his combat sports career. He took a lot of damage in every step of that fighting career, getting knocked out by the likes of Mirko Crocop and Quinton Jackson. The UFC antitrust case, which recently reached a second settlement to the tune of $ 375 million, has revealed a frightening health from Silva. According to the Brazilian, he’s suffering CTE symptoms that include mental health struggles and desperately needs the money from the settlement.

A key part of Silva’s declaration reads, “While fighting for the UFC, I suffered many significant injuries, including concussions. I fear that during my career I have suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI) and am noticing symptoms common with TBI and CTE including depression, mood swings, and irritability. To date, no treatment for CTE has been found. I suffer from sleep apnea and have difficulty sleeping and breathing. That I can recall, I have had four surgeries on my nose, 1 on my face, 2 on my left knee, 1 on my right knee and 1 on my elbow.”

Silva desperately requests approval of the settlement so that he can afford necessary health care and keep his home. Silva’s statement is very upsetting but hardly unique. John Nash’s full thread on X is worth reading if interested in the lawsuit, and it’s filled with accounts of broken UFC veterans struggling to make ends meet.

The new settlement is still awaiting approval from the presiding judge, who struck down the first settlement offer because he didn’t feel it was a large enough sum.

Insomnia

The most notable reaction to UFC 307 is the absolute public agreement that Khalil Rountree is a savage.

Oh, this is quite an interesting theory …

Ciryl Gane is too athletic to be an MMA Heavyweight. He should definitely be making way more money doing something else, but fight fans got lucky.

Mauricio Ruffy’s return is officially booked. Think the Fighting Nerds product picks up another KO?

I knew Oleksandr Usyk and Artur Beterbiev fought as amateurs, but I didn’t know this happened …

The Czech Samurai is in Japan!

I quite liked this drill from Sean O’Malley, who definitely knows his stuff regarding modern MMA striking.

Slips, rips, and KO clips

A perfect counter punch.

Four Southpaw uppercuts to the liver seal the deal.

A calf kick stoppage in professional kickboxing! It can happen!

Random Land

The devastation in western North Carolina is insane.

Midnight Music: Art rock, 2024

Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.

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Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree Jr. put on a show in the UFC 307 main event and earned high praise from their boss.

The battle between two elite strikers ended after Pereira busted up Rountree in the fourth round as several cuts resulted in blood just pouring down the challenger’s face and chest. With Rountree fading, Pereira seized on the opening by delivering a pair of brutal body shots followed by an uppercut that helped him secure his third knockout win in 2024.

UFC CEO Dana White took a victory lap after he heard some complaints that Rountree wasn’t deserving because of his ranking because he knew the stylistic matchup would deliver come fight night.

“Did this not play out the way everybody thought it would?” White said at the UFC 307 post-fight press conference. “Everybody knew. Everybody at first, ‘Oh, he’s ranked No. 8’ — you knew it was going to be a badass fight. You knew it was going to be a badass fight.

“You can never measure heart. You don’t know how that’s going to go. Now you know.”

While Pereira ultimately got the win, he had to bide his time during the first couple of rounds as Rountree came out gunning for the knockout.

White was incredibly impressed by Rountree’s willingness to stand in the pocket and exchange with arguably the most lethal striker in recent UFC history.

“He had no fear from the first round,” White said about the title challenger. “Khalil Rountree went in there and started going at it the minute the bell rang. No fear, no jitters, no nerves. Maybe he had some jitters and nerves, if he did, he didn’t show it.

“He went right in against one of the baddest dudes of all time and just started mixing it up with him. It was awesome.”

When it came to Pereira’s performance, White noted that “Poatan” used a brilliant strategy to dismantle Rountree by chopping away at his foundation through a series of crippling calf kicks.

After Rountree’s leg was chewed up and compromised, Pereira didn’t have to fear reprisal as much when he stepped in the pocket to trade punches. That led to Pereira slicing and dicing Rountree with his lead jab before he set up the fight-finishing combination against the cage.

“I felt like the difference was the low leg kick,” White said about Pereira’s strategy. “When he started calf kicking him, he was destroying that leg and [Khalil] was having trouble putting pressure on it and he was having trouble with his punching power, his movement everything. He systematically just started picking him apart.”

It turns out Pereira had his opponent perfectly scouted because White was reminded about a pre-fight feature where the reigning UFC light heavyweight champion laid out exactly what he needed to do to beat Rountree on Saturday night.

“When I watched the feature [on the fight], he said, ‘This guy hits hard, he’s tough, he’s this, he’s that and this guy has a dream but my fight IQ will win this fight,’” White said. “He said that in the combo feature and that’s exactly the way it played out.”

Considering the momentum that Pereira has built recently along with the highlight-reel finishes, he’s starting to put together the kind of résumé that rivals a number of UFC legends.

That includes Anderson Silva, who was arguably the most feared champion on the entire UFC roster during his reign over the middleweight division. Now it seems like Pereira is carrying around that same kind of invincible aura.

“What this guy has done is unbelievable,” White said about Pereira. “Not just if you want to compare him to [Anderson Silva], the way he’s done it. This guy destroys everybody.”

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Joe Rogan provided some inside information about the absolute force behind Alex Pereira’s strikes following UFC 307.

Rogan, who called the action with Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier during Saturday’s event in Salt Lake City, revealed on the broadcast following Pereira’s fourth-round knockout of Khalil Rountree in the headliner that he spoke with referee Marc Goddard — the third man in the octagon with the two light heavyweight championship competitors — about the fight.

What Rogan heard he needed to share immediately.

“I was in the octagon after the fight and Marc Goddard came up to me and he said, ‘I’ve been doing this for 20 years,’” Rogan said. “And he goes, ‘The way he hits people, the sound is like nothing that I’ve ever heard before.’

“He said, ‘It’s ungodly.’ That’s what he kept saying. He says it’s ungodly.”

Pereira made a strong case for the 2024 Fighter of the Year with his third title defense of the year, and third sensational knockout. “Poatan” began the year with a brutal knockout of Jamahal Hill at UFC 300 in April, and followed it up with a head kick finish of Jiri Prochazka in June at UFC 303.

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