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Welcome to Midnight Mania!

We are less than one month away from one of the biggest boxing matches of 2024.

Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev is scheduled to go down on October 12 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as part of the “Riyadh Season” hosted by upstart boxing promoter Turki Alalshikh. Bivol is undefeated at 23-0, a multiple time world champion with wins over the likes of Canelo Alvarez and Lyndon Arthur. Beterbiev, similarly, is a three-division champion with an undefeated (20-0) record, and each of his wins came via stoppage.

The two have a long history dating back to their amateur days, giving a long lead up to this high-profile battle. Appropriately, the newly dropped promotional video above reflects that history, showing their rise to the top of boxing mountain in a creative fashion. With the boxers suited up in medieval attire, armies fall and a bear is conquered en route to their pivotal showdown.

The epic four minute video has a very Game of Thrones vibe. When the two face off in the ring rather than atop a snowy mountain, who takes the victory?

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I am in no means arguing that this elbow is justified, but if somebody walks up to you that aggressively it’s in your best interest to react.

The ending overshadows the fact that Max Holloway’s five-round performance against Justin Gaethje was an all-time great show of MMA Boxing.

Speaking of, Gaethje vs. Poirier 3 or Poirier vs. Hooker 2? Both would be incredibly appropriate sendoffs for “The Diamond.”

Khamzat Chimaev is investing heavily in himself and his camp ahead of the Robert Whittaker showdown.

The awkward vibe of this tweet tells me Muhammad Mokaev is still going to annoy somebody behind-the-scenes.

Clips of the Netflix documentary on Vince McMahon are circling the web, and it seems like a worthy watch.

Clay Guida will keep on keepin’ on against another young talent in Chase Hooper, who looks to have improved quite a bit since jumping up to Lightweight.

Slips, rips, and KO clips

This is how we should decide the next Flyweight title shot.

A great fight most reading probably didn’t see:

Good show of offense from the lead side.

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Alex Pereira sighting.

Midnight Music: Indie, 2004

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

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Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol look ready to finally settle their business.

Beterbiev and Bivol, who are currently the two best light heavyweight boxers in the world, were previously scheduled to fight for the undisputed title back in June before a ruptured meniscus forced Beterbiev to withdraw from the bout. Now, the two are finally set to matchup on Oct. 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, the final promotional push toward the fight began with a press conference in London, where the longtime rivals finally faced off with an intense staredown.

Undefeated in 20 professional fights, Beterbiev is the current WBC, IBF, and WBO light heavyweight champion and most recently stopped Callum Smith to retain his titles back in January.

Also undefeated at 23-0, Bivol, is the current WBA and IBO light heavyweight champion and is perhaps best known for defeating Canelo Alvarez in May of 2022.

In advance of the fight, promoters Matchroom, Top Rank, and Queensberry Promotions released an epic trailer for the marque matchup that you can watch below.

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The UFC is now one of the most profitable sports entities on the planet but that wasn’t the case in the early 2000s when the promotion was bleeding money, most states banned MMA and television networks wanted nothing to do with the sport.

The former owners at Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG) were desperately trying to find a buyer and that’s when Shane McMahon — son of former WWE founder Vince McMahon — was approached about taking over UFC.

“At the time, the UFC, they got in some financial problems and came to us and said ‘would you like to purchase the UFC?’” Shane revealed in the new Netflix documentary series Mr. McMahon. “I go this is cool.

“I said ‘Dad, let’s just go for this one.’ I thought we could really grow that brand because it’s tailor made for what we do. We have a production team, we have a live events team, we had a merchandising team, we have all of it just ready to go. So to me it was plug and play.”

Groomed as a potential successor to his father in the professional wrestling business, Shane reportedly saw the UFC as his chance to prove he had the acumen to take over an organization and turn it into a financial success. That could then set the stage for him to run WWE when his father was ready to step down.

But when Shane approached Vince with the idea to buy the UFC, the elder McMahon had no interest.

“When it was presented in terms of buying UFC, I didn’t like that business model,” Vince explained. “Because our business model, you can create characters much like Disney or someone else and we can use them forever.

“As opposed to a boxer/UFC [fighter], once you’re beat, once you’re hurt or something, your career’s over. We’re in show business. That’s a sport.”

While WWE and UFC share a lot of similar DNA in terms of athletes and personalities helping to drive interest, professional wrestling is scripted drama while MMA is real fighting.

That was all Vince needed to justify his decision to pass on buying UFC and just sticking to his day-to-day business running WWE.

“So anyway, he thought about it and passed,” Shane said about his father’s decision. “Passed on the opportunity and that was that.”

Zuffa — a company started by brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta along with longtime friend Dana White — ended up purchasing the UFC for $ 2 million in 2001. While the company struggled financially for several years, UFC eventually turned things around and the Fertitta’s sold the business to Endeavor for just over $ 4 billion in 2016.

“10 years later or something, UFC was sold for a lot of money and I think Shane wants to take credit for the idea of buying UFC,” Vince said. “Shane really thought that’s the way to go.

“So Shane, you take your money and put it in, which didn’t work. It wouldn’t work. Because it would take a huge investment and Shane only had a little bit [of money] so that’s not a good investment.”

Obviously, Shane always saw the potential in the UFC and the $ 4 billion sale along with the continued growth over the past few years proved the gamble would have paid off.

“Hindsight’s always 20/20,” Shane said. “I think it would have been an excellent investment.”

Funny enough, Endeavor ended up taking over WWE as well and then merged the organization with UFC under the current company name TKO Group Holdings. The new combined company was valued at over $ 21 billion at the time of the merger.

As for Vince, he eventually resigned from his post as TKO Group Holdings executive chairman after an inflammatory lawsuit was filed against him by an ex-employee accusing the mogul of sexual assault among other allegations. McMahon has since sold off a huge part of his stock in TKO Group Holdings, although he still remains a sizable shareholder in the company.

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