Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Let’s start the night off by taking look back over the three biggest stories of Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
- Sorry, Cyborg! Five-division boxing world champion, Claressa Shields, retires from MMA – ‘It was too hard’: Honestly, respect to Shields for fighting in PFL three separate times, it’s not an easy transition to make. Plus, she can still box Cyborg before all is said and done!
- Sorry, Tom Aspinall, Jon Jones reveals he’s ‘done’ fighting in new leaked video: Trolling or truly retired? Tom Aspinall’s career is being wasted while we figure it out.
- Islam Makhachev may be faced with his ‘worst nightmare’ at welterweight — and it’s not UFC champ Jack Della Maddalena: I still don’t think Joaquin Buckley is receiving his due as a genuine title threat.
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— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) May 20, 2025
Merab Dvalishvili’s win over Umar Nurmagomedov is likely to age very well.
Merab Dvalishvili’s coach reveals he nearly pulled him from Umar Nurmagomedov fight:
“Merab was half-dead. … He had an open wound, he had a staph infection, he was on all kinds of antibiotics.”
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— MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) May 19, 2025
Gilbert Burns reacts to a difficult weekend at UFC Vegas 106.
All honor, praise and glory are to you my dear Lord Jesus!
Especially this one, I worked extremely hard, dedicated so much, but I do believe that wasn’t in vain, % it did inspire and motivated a lot people, especially the ones involved in it. The result sucks but I’m thankful… pic.twitter.com/VVsH2oArWv— GILBERT BURNS DURINHO (@GilbertDurinho) May 18, 2025
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— Feño (@fenoxsky) May 20, 2025
