Midnight Mania! McGregor’s Game of Featherweight Thrones, GSP’s alien encounter and more

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Welcome to Midnight Mania, where sleep is gone but you belong. Tonight, we’ve got Georges St-Pierre discussing aliens (again), UFC Fight Night 102’s Derrick Lewis being his same bad self, Conor McGregor still walking around with his Featherweight belt (while other people fight for the interim title), and the rumor that “Notorious” might make an appearance in the actual “Game of Thrones.” Or is his life the actual Game of Thrones?

Oh, and in case you hadn’t heard, there is another UFC event this weekend (Fri., Dec. 9, 2016) in Albany, New York. What’s that you say? Not the one you were thinking of, especially with UFC 206 taking place one day later? Oh, well, neither was I. I kept forgetting all about it … until I found this corny (but easy) way to remind myself where UFC’s second recent event in “The Empire State” is located.

SoozieCuzie is a fountain of UFC-related puns. Occasionally, she is also funny. She keeps track of how much commercial time you end up watching during UFC broadcasts. (Hint: It’s way more than you wanted to know) So, if you feel like diving down a rabbit hole of numbers …

That’s a lot of lost time.

Speaking of lost time and rabbit holes, remember how St-Pierre had this thing blaming lost time on aliens? Well, he details his UFC, sorry, UFO, experience here, with Rashad Evans, in case you missed it:

And if you haven’t seen this old cartoon yet, it’s pretty great.

GSP’s accent is so fun.

Speaking of pay-per-view (PPV) cards he should be headlining …. I love that mixed martial arts (MMA) is now mainstream. It gives us a chance to witness how little the mainstream media knows about our sport.

Here’s what you should be looking at instead:

The Toronto card is a little more exciting than that Albany card, eh? Nothing against the aforementioned Lewis, who is headlining Friday night’s Fight Pass-televised event in Albany. He’s scary … and hilarious. Take a look at his social media account for all the latest and funniest videos and memes. Stuff like this:

And he had this to say about his upcoming fight:

I can get behind that kind of message! On the other hand, Anthony Pettis is out here training hard for showtime.

That isn’t the only great fight at UFC 206, either. Every main card fight is interesting. And the PPV main card opener between Cub Swanson and Doo Ho Choi has an especially high entertainment quotient. You wanna hear someone get hyped about it? Robin Black will get hype. He will. I promise you.

Oh, and while we are on analysis, check out Jack Slack breaking down last weekend’s event. It was highly entertaining, with a touch of the bizarre, the brilliant, and full of breakneck action. Ryan Hall’s performance against Gray Maynard fell into that first category. Some found it frustrating, others found it incredibly entertaining. Gray Maynard was definitely the former — he had a lot to say afterward on social media. Hall responded with this.

Grown men with tramp stamps are never safe. This burn might even be a little more brutal than his kicking game, which, to be fair, has come a long way. Not sure about this though:

For the guy who pioneered the kinds of kicks Hall was using, take a look at Bill “Superfoot” Wallace, one of the stars of early American kickboxing.

Back onto future fight hype,UFC released Ronda Rousey’s Octagon debut against Liz Carmouche from back in 2013.

And a bunch of random things happen in this UFC 206 “Embedded” episode, some of them interesting.

And, of course, the UFC 206 “Countdown” show was on point:

In other news, Glory has a kickboxing event, Glory Collision, coming up on Fight Pass. Tiffany “Time Bomb” is out here kicking trees in preparation:

And in kickboxing fights already gone by, Jose Aldo’s kickboxing trainer scored a flying knee KO:

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Podcasts And Audio:

Demetrious Johnson thinks Cody Garbrandt takes down his old foe Dominick Cruz.

The latest “Co-Main Event Podcast.”

“The MMA Hour” (or, as the CME guys call it, the MMA Fortnight)

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Quick Hits:

• Mighty Mouse got paid.
• Someone needs to tell Wanderlei that Movember is over.

• Dominick Cruz is talking smack. It’s something he’s gotten really good at lately.
• Conor McGregor still has that belt. You know, the one the Irishman “willingly” coughed up.

He is taking very good care of them, putting them on display in a VERY nice hotel suite …

Oh, did you know he might end up on Game of Thrones? Perhaps they want him to teach Jaime Lannister to fight left-handed. He’s already sparred the Mountain once:

I just wonder how they are going to cover his tattoos.

What would be the saying of House McGregor? Here are some ideas: “We’re not here to take part, we’re here to take over!”; “If one of us goes to war, we all go to war!”; “I would just like to apologize … TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY!”

This might mean we get to see this interaction between McGregor and Jon Snow:

Although, before you get too excited, it’s still just a rumor at this point.

Playing games with my hopes and expectations, I see…

Valar Morghulis, Maniacs.