Midnight Mania! UFC Leaves Ige On Red After Forgetting The Flag

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Friday, Jan. 30, 2026.

The UFC and/or Venum seem to be under the impression that the American colors are black, white, and blue. Checking Ancestry.com results to verify what an MMA fighter can wear in the cage? Very, very strange stuff. This feels like a bizarre extension of UFC flag politics.

Rafael Fiziev is ready for battle!

What’s everyone’s prediction for the UFC 325? This is the rematch in a nutshell, Volkanovski being way better but Lopes being so dangerous.

Follow combat sports long enough, and you get to enjoy hearing some of the most absurd numbers imaginable. Power Slap and One Championship also LOVE talking about unverifiable impressions.

Not actively fighting whenever in the same room is as healthy as the Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier relationship will ever be.

Didn’t we learn to keep Rampage away from women like two decades ago?

Slips, rips, and KO clips

Driving forward into the triangle is not great defense.

There’s a wee bit of Alex Pereira in that stance and left hook.

Kicking the front thing, back thigh, either calf — this is total leg destruction.

Midnight Music: Alt. rock, 1996

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