Midnight Mania! ‘JDS’ Dances With The Stars!

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Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Former Heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos is one of the most affable men on the roster. The good-natured pugilist has sang in post-fight interviews and once gave a rendition of “Purple Rain” while in Minneapolis — he’s just a fun guy! “JDS” continued to show his light-hearted side last night, when he made his debut on Brazil’s Dancing With The Stars.

Laugh if you’d like, but the judges adored the big man’s performance, awarding him 58.4 points out of 60 possible point, which includes four perfect scores. Furthermore, as Paige VanZant proved in 2016, Dancing With The Stars is a huge moneymaker that can expose a fighter to a much wider audience.

Given some of the damage he’s absorbed over the years, it’s great to see Junior dos Santos having fun and being productive while recovering!

Insomnia

A brief social media celebration of our new Strawweight world champion:

Reminder: Khabib is a bad ass.

Japanese toad/frog tattoos are the absolute coolest, and Andre Fili just got a Muay Thai version.

Thiago Santos took his first steps since surgery!

Khalil Rountree is a man of many talents.

Happy Labour Day!

Slips, rips, and KO clips

If you only watch one clip on this post tonight, make it this one. Absolute chaos!

This was an easy one to guess which man would be knocked out: Khazhirokov was not in an athletic stance at all when Henrique stormed forward.

A spinning “Alpha Ginger” sounds like an amusement park ride.

Random Land

So this is awesome!

Midnight Music: Lana Del Rey’s new album Norman F****** Rockwell is pretty great. It covers the same topics as much of her past work — namely relationship and fame drama — but is very smartly written and and stays focused throughout its entire 67 minute run time.

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