Midnight Mania! Real Gs Don’t Fake Beef Like ‘Puppets’ Strickland Vs. Khamzat
· Yahoo Sports
Welcome to Midnight Mania!
Visit rouesnews.click for more information.
Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Monday, May 11, 2026.
- UFC 328 results: Matches to make for ‘Khamzat vs. Strickland’ main card winners: Khamzat vs. Paulo Costa at 205 pounds is going to be so, so sick.
- King Green passed over for UFC 328 $100k bonus, will get custom shorts instead: King Green asked for a raise and got a pizza party instead — many such cases.
- Video: UFC posts pivotal fifth round from Strickland-Chimaev title fight, Khamzat demands immediate rematch: Khamzat’s “Kill Everyone” schtick stops working when he doesn’t want to cut weight anymore and just looked kind of mediocre. You can’t call for a rematch and stop being a Middleweight!
Insomnia
I don’t think anyone particularly liked how the Strickland vs. Khamzat “beef” played out, but Nate Diaz is especially indignant. Also, it’s still insane to think about how Diaz was actually supposed to fight Khamzat …
Nate Diaz called out Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev for “faking” their beef 😬
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) May 11, 2026
“Hugging and showing love like some bitches. Fake f*cking puppets. I’m f*cking cool off that sh*t. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I was bullsh*tting everybody.”
(via @MostVpromotions) pic.twitter.com/EDdH5jP432
I’ll give Paddy Pimblett the benefit of the doubt here and assume he was just goofing around here, but … those defensive reactions don’t look great!
Paddy Pimblett spars an influencer and makes him throw up 🤢
— Combat Casuals (@Combat_Casuals) May 10, 2026
He did get caught a few times though 👀 pic.twitter.com/3p2dCUdLbi
The one smart thing Joaquin Buckley did in 15 minutes … Demetrious Johnson used the same technique to avoid Joseph Benavidez’s guillotine after getting rocked in their first fight!
Joaquin Buckley escapes Sean Brady's mount via Kipping (not clickbait) pic.twitter.com/FkDd3OsB5O
— Alexander Volkara France (@VolkaraFrance) May 11, 2026
William Gomis’ wife is (allegedly) ride-or-die.
A fan at UFC 328 claims he was assaulted by William Gomis wife and then kicked out of Prudential Center.
— Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) May 11, 2026
“I was rooting for Pat Sabatini….then I get kicked out and banned for life for it” pic.twitter.com/MIj11Nbczc
Sean Strickland goes off on Ariel Helwani! And vice versa!
Ariel Helwani WENT OFF on Sean Strickland for taking back his trash talk and apologizing 😳
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) May 11, 2026
“That is the biggest bunch of bullsh*t I’ve ever heard. That is fraud. That is cowardly sh*t. You cannot walk that back. You called Khamzat's mother a wh*re! That tells me you’re not who… pic.twitter.com/o3hTwpLYA6
This is why I dont do media with him. You are a leech who I've never respected. The moment I met this man I knew his quality. End of the day the hatred between was real, what he said about me was wrong, what I said about himwas wrong. This what hate and anger does to people and…
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) May 11, 2026
He personally thanked me once for standing up for Israel during the 7th attacks. I stand by that…. over the course of it my views dramatically changed. It went from hostage rescue to collective punishment aimed at women and children. I would say without a doubt that the aipac… https://t.co/nqx8d6Tav0
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) May 11, 2026
Young Pudz!
24-year-old Polish weightlifting champion Mariusz Pudzianowski is released from 10 months in prison in Łowicz after being locked up for assault. pic.twitter.com/vK1sEgw54b
— 2001 Live (@25YearsAgoLive) May 10, 2026
If Joshua Van can maintain his current rate for a very long time, he is one of very few people with a chance to surpass Max Holloway’s punch count. A special fighter!
Update after #UFC328:@JoshuaVanBT is landing strikes at an unprecedented rate in the #UFC.
— Nate Latshaw (@NateLatshaw) May 10, 2026
He is the fastest fighter to land 1,000 significant strikes.
Long way to go to catch Max Holloway, but Van is over 400 strikes ahead of where Max was at this point in his UFC career. pic.twitter.com/L9v5aIWwZo
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Ex-UFC Midldeweight Laureano Staropoli just scored one of the year’s best knockouts.
HOLY SHIT. Beautiful spinning wheel kick KO by Laureano Staropoli at FNC 30. Easily one of the best knockouts in FNC history. pic.twitter.com/uPOwVmIeMs
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) May 9, 2026
… and yet this random spin kick from the French amateur scene might be even better?
🇫🇷Samuel Gotti a gagné contre 🇫🇷Thomas Aguilar par KO au Round 1. #MMALeaguepic.twitter.com/NAMSPa4Wmj
— French MMA (@FrenchMma_) May 10, 2026
Samperi landed some big lefts from Southpaw before switching Ortho for the left hook finish. Sneaky!
Michael Samperi KO2 Said Kabil #GLORY107pic.twitter.com/fYEq5MulJK
— Neo Vale Tudo (@NeoValeTudo) April 25, 2026
Random Land
The sun is hard to comprehend if you really give it any consideration.
This is a photo of the solar chromosphere, captured using a 6" telescope I modified to safely handle the intense heat from focusing the sun's powerful radiation
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) May 11, 2026
By isolating the bandpass, vivid atmospheric structure starts to emerge
That structure on the limb is 4 Earths tall! pic.twitter.com/NyfuLYu10R
Get involved with Mania community in The Feed!
Midnight Music: Folk, 2000
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.