Midnight Mania! Video: Ortiz And Del Rio Scuffle At Weigh-Ins!

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Tomorrow night’s pay-per-view (PPV) main event match up between Tito Ortiz and Alberto Del Rio…

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Tomorrow night’s pay-per-view (PPV) main event match up between Tito Ortiz and Alberto Del Rio over at Combate Americas fulfills every aspect of my “weird and wild” quota. Ortiz is 44 years of age, fresh off a year-old win over the still-warm body of legendary rival Chuck Liddell. Meanwhile, Del Rio is 42 years young himself and best known as a professional wrestler, but he did fight professional as recently as 2010.

What the two lack in youth, they have been making up for with intrigue, as the promotion for this fight has been largely political. Ortiz will walk into the cage with “TRUMP 2020” stamped across his buttocks or junk — it’s unclear which — while just yesterday, Del Rio was seen strangling a TV host in a Trump mask.

Is it any wonder the two got physical at today’s weigh-ins? I guess one does not simply age out of being “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy.”

Insomnia

At least she isn’t shaking this time!

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Modern day jiu-jitsu:

Weili Zhang’s star potential grows even further if she’s able to master English — credit to the many international athletes who undertake that difficult task.

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Some interesting stats ahead of tomorrow’s main event:

This is some seriously brutal forehead/knuckle/elbow conditioning.

Slips, rips, and KO clips

We may have another killer Magomedsharipov inside the Octagon in a couple years.

This is perhaps the cleanest cartwheel kick I’ve ever seen.

Full send!

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