{"id":29701,"date":"2026-09-25T05:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:08:35","slug":"ufc-castaway-muhammad-mokaev-levels-above-surging-champion-joshua-van-make-that-fight-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=29701","title":{"rendered":"UFC castaway Muhammad Mokaev \u2018levels above\u2019 surging champion Joshua Van: \u2018Make that fight happen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Muhammad Mokaev vs. Joshua Van would be an awesome style clash, but Mokaev remains persona non grata with UFC brass, so \u2026 maybe in five more years?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As a new Sean Sharaf fan, I respectfully hope he gets his s\u2014t together and gains some financial sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">John Dodson and Demetrious Johnson really don\u2019t look similar \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In case you thought 44-year-old Cain Velasquez was no longer an absolute TANK!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Standard \u201cCalifornia Dad\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ryan Bader vs. Phil Davis probably isn\u2019t the first rivalry that comes to mind for fight fans, but there\u2019s a lot of history there.<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sumo\u2019s lack of weight classes is both awesome and a little baffling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A downside of the Southpaw stance is that the liver is closer to an Orthodox opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Between the Suloev Stretch and Scottish twister, non-RNC offense from back mount has become more common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I don\u2019t understand what\u2019s happening exactly, but it\u2019s vibrant!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Get involved with Mania community in The Feed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Midnight Music: Indie pop, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/474572\/ufc-castaway-muhammad-mokaev-levels-above-surging-champion-joshua-van-make-that-fight-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Midnight Mania! Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. Muhammad Mokaev vs. Joshua Van would be an awesome style clash, but Mokaev remains persona non grata with UFC brass, so \u2026 maybe in five more years? As a new Sean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5198,305,248,737,79,2185,4299,951,2375,42,80],"class_list":["post-29701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis","tag-castaway","tag-champion","tag-fight","tag-happen","tag-joshua","tag-levels","tag-mokaev","tag-muhammad","tag-surging","tag-ufc","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}