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MMA Fighting has DWCS results for all the action from season eight, week four of UFC’s Contender Series on Tuesday night at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nev.

In the main event, 28-year-old South Korean Seok Hyun Ko and undefeated 26-year-old Brazilian Igor Cavalcanti face off in a welterweight contest.

Check out DWCS results below for Contender Series season eight, week four.

Fight Card (8 p.m. ET, ESPN+)

Seok Hyun Ko vs. Igor Cavalcanti

Will Currie vs. Djorden Santos

Austin Bashi vs. Dorian Ramos

Yuneisy Duben vs. Shannon Clark

Gauge Young vs. Quillan Salkilld

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

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

MMA gyms are a funny place. In the same room and sometimes even the same class, a new student enjoying their one free week of jiu-jitsu might share the mat with a world-class UFC fighter. That accessibility is an unusual aspect of the sport. Certainly, nobody is walking into Arrowhead Stadium and having a catch in the vicinity of Patrick Mahomes!

There is a downside: strange people can also enter the gym. Wannabe tough guys, social media stars, alleged street fighters — the door is open to all of them. That’s how we end up with body builders being felled by “Wonderboy” low kicks and Sneako getting demolished by an ex-champion.

In the latest edition of UFC fighter vs. random person, Featherweight prospect Blake Bilder (8-2-1) takes on someone only described as a “street fighter.” Bilder knocks down the hapless street fighter twice then puts him to sleep twice using the Von Flue and triangle chokes.

The fight actually happened a few weeks ago, but Bilder is extremely active on social media and posted the clip again recently. It made rounds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, and fight fans are largely unimpressed or outright angry.

Here’s a quick sample of the reactions:

“Bunch of grown men just filming and watching it happen and laughing, embarassing.”

“he is 34 as well what a joke”

“What’s his deal and why did he keep finishing this man? Pause”

“When does this clown fight again so we can hate watch”

“Being knockout out this many times in one day cannot be healthy …”

“No matter how many years of training you’ve done, destroying some untrained guy in jeans shows a lack of sportsmanship and a lack of discipline.”

“This is f—ked up. I dont get why you guys keep letting him spar just for content. That guy is clearly not going to be okay after all this.”

Like most fighters nowadays, Bilder joined the UFC roster via Contenders Series. Since then, he defeated Shane Young via unanimous decision in a successful debut, but he’s lost his last two via unanimous decision. At the moment, Bilder does not have a fourth UFC appearance booked.

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Matt Brown shredding!

Slick work from close range:

Josh Koscheck is one of the more underrated wrestlers of UFC history, overshadowed by a GOAT. His blast double was incredible!

Only one thing is certain here: there will be blood! This is a perfect 145-pound veterans booking.

A fancy edit of “The Suga Show.”

Circling a pair of wrestlers for the final takedown-wins-it-all match up of practice is a time-honored tradition.

“F them kids” — Michael Jordan, Tim Elliott

Brian Ortega is keeping it weird ahead of Noche UFC.

Slips, rips, and KO clips

Stabbing front and powerful round kicks aimed at the same target:

Cumulative strangulation throughout all the transitions caught up to him.

A knockout overshadowed by denim and the promotion’s name.

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Hilarious tweet or brilliant short story? The line is blurred.

Midnight Music: Jangle pop, 1983

Anecdote of the Week: Oh man, I have so many stories that could go here.

A shocking amount of random people walk into Team Alpha Male and try to stir s—t with the professional athletes. Somewhat well-known back in 2017, there was the incident where some online body builder weirdo showed up to TAM to scuffle with Cody Garbrandt, got his hat slapped off by the 130-pound front desk guy, and then fled the wrong direction down a one-way street just before “No Love” actually arrived. Later, he allegedly faked his death on Twitter.

I wasn’t there in person for any of that though, so here’s my silly one: for several years, I worked as an assistant coach to Urijah Faber, helping him run an 8:30 AM drills class three times a week immediately leading up to the official pro practice. The class was open to the public, but if pros showed up, it would be tailored to them. If not, it was a lot of Urijah’s favorite jiu-jitsu sequences. I either helped drill with the pros or took over instruction of the civilian grapplers, depending on the demands of the day.

One day, we just have a group full of regular jiu-jitsu folk. There is, however, one newer sign-up. The man was probably 220 pounds of muscle and mental health issues. The drill class didn’t feature any live rolling, because it was … a drills class … and the guy didn’t have the ability to focus for that long. His expression was growing darker by the minute, and his drilling partner was looking visibly concerned. Sensing a looming disaster, Urijah walks over to chat.

As I’m instructing a group on how to lock up a fundamental triangle choke, I hear the frustrated proclamation, “I just want to roll!” Rather than simply saying no, or this isn’t that kind of class, or you don’t know enough to roll yet, or I don’t need this I own the gym and have a huge net worth, Faber accepts without blinking. He rolls with the erratic newcomer for the better part of 20 minutes and shows up to the end-of-class huddle covered in finger nail scratches. The other guy is too exhausted to join the huddle, laying in a pool of sweat that the pro team will shortly be jogging through.

Long story short: you can probably convince a Hall of Fame UFC fighter to wrestle you through sheer disruptiveness.

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

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MMA Fighting has Naoya Inoue vs. TJ Doheny live round-by-round updates for Tuesday’s anticipated championship fight from Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

The main event is expected to begin around 7 a.m. ET on ESPN+. Check out our Inoue vs. Doheny results page to find out what happened on the undercard.

Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs) seeks to once again defend his IBF, WBC, and WBO super bantamweight titles. One of the pound-for-pound kings of boxing, Inoue most recently defeated Luis Nery with a sixth-round knockout this past May.

Doheny (26-4, 20 KOs) is a former IBF super bantamweight champ. He enters the title bout riding a three straight wins over Kazuki Nakajima, Japhethlee Llamido, and Bryl Bayogos.

Check out our Inoue vs. Doheny live blog below:

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Brad Tate has been working as a cutman in the UFC for as long as fans can remember. He can be spotted in most events inspecting fighters before they enter the Octagon and working on cuts and other injuries between rounds.

Despite not being a fighter, Tate has gradually become popular in MMA circles as one of the most consistent members of the UFC team like Bruce Buffer. He’s unsurprisingly developed great relationships with several UFC fighters, including Charles Oliveira, Daniel Cormier, Gilbert Burns, Jamahal Hill, and many more.

Tate has been dealing with mixed martial artists for almost a decade, and he’s now revealed a former UFC middleweight champion to be the toughest fighter to work with…

Cutman Tate Jokingly Claims No One Likes Luke Rockhold Except Daniel Cormier

Tate appeared on the Believe You Me podcast hosted by Michael Bisping recently. Right away, “The Count” asked the cutman for some gossip as he’s had countless interactions with the UFC roster.

To Bisping’s happiness, Tate called Luke Rockhold one of the worst fighters he’s had to work with in the UFC. In 2016 at UFC 199, Bisping knocked out Rockhold to win the UFC middleweight championship in what remains one of the biggest upsets in the sport to date.

Without going into much detail, Tate stated that Rockhold caused problems consistently. The cutman appreciated that Bisping took away the UFC middleweight championship from him which is enough to determine how much he dislikes Rockhold.

“I will give you the one person because he’s not in the UFC anymore and you fought him. F*****g Luke Rockhold was a pain in a**. Like, bro, listen to me, I know he was a good fighter. I don’t think anybody except DC like Luke Rockhold.”

Tate isn’t a fan of Rockhold calling out UFC fighters like Sean Strickland either, now that he’s left the promotion. He also added that criticism regarding his demeanor fueled the former UFC middleweight champion to act in the same manner instead of mending his ways.

“I see him now, and like, he was talking sh*t about Sean Strickland. And I’m like, nobody cares bro. Like this whole, Dana call me I’ll go in there and handle this for you. It’s like, dude, he was a problem like and he was just, dude, him losing the belt was like the best thing for him but like I said. I mean he’s not in the UFC anymore but he was the one guy that just, oh my god, even to just be around him, you would just be like, bro, why are you such a d**k? And honestly, you could tell him that he was a d**k and it just, I think that fueled him even more and made him even more like, yeah, let me be that way.”

The UFC cutman claims to have rarely had bad experiences with fighters which is why it is surprising how much he despises the time spent with Rockhold. Luckily, for him, it’s unlikely that the middleweight will ever return to the promotion following his loss to Paulo Costa at UFC 278.

• Read also: Coach On Sean O’Malley Not Defending Title Against Umar Nurmagomedov: “If ‘Suga’ Just Faceplants Merab & Drops A ‘Hendo’ Bomb…”

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The Naoya Inoue vs. TJ Doheny start time, TV schedule, and ring walks are below for the Inoue vs. Doheny fight card on Tuesday at Ariake Arena in Tokyo.

This post will help explain the Inoue vs. Doheny fight card and at which time the headliners are expected to make their ring walks.

The event features a five-bout card headlined by the Naoya Inoue vs. TJ Doheny championship showdown on ESPN+. The Inoue vs. Doheny ring walks are expected to take place approximately around 7 a.m. ET.

The Inoue vs. Doheny fight card broadcast begins at 5:45 a.m. ET and airs on ESPN+.

Inoue, widely considered one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in boxing, defends his IBF, WBC, and WBO super bantamweight titles against former IBF super bantamweight champ Doheny in a 12-round championship match. The 31-year-old Japanese talent most recently defended his belts with a sixth-round knockout of Luis Nery this past May. Doheny has won three straight bouts over Kazuki Nakajima, Japhethlee Llamido, and Bryl Bayogos.

Yoshiki Takei and Daigo Higa collide in a 12-round battle for the WBO bantamweight title in the co-main event.

The main and co-main event are the only two fights airing on ESPN+.

The full fight card for the Inoue vs. Doheny event is below:

Naoya Inoue vs. TJ Doheny — 12 rounds, IBF/WBC/WBO super bantamweight title

Yoshiki Takei vs. Daigo Higa — 12 rounds, WBO bantamweight title

Jin Sasaki vs. Qamil Balla — 12 rounds, welterweight

Ismael Barroso vs. Andy Hiraoka — 12 rounds, junior welterweight

Toshiki Shimomachi vs. Ryuya Tsugawa — 10 rounds, junior featherweight

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