{"id":110637,"date":"2025-09-01T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:35:08","slug":"fares-ziam-announces-withdrawal-from-ufc-fight-night-258-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110637\/","title":{"rendered":"Fares Ziam announces withdrawal from UFC Fight Night 258 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fares Ziam has pulled himself from UFC Fight Night 258 due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Ziam (17-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) was scheduled to face Kaue Fernandes (10-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) in a lightweight bout on Saturday&#8217;s main card (ESPN+) at Accor Arena in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He announced Monday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DODj_-VihBF\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=bXExdGlibG5sbTBt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> that after the death of his grandmother, he has decided to prioritize his family and not compete.<\/p>\n<p>Ziam was entering his fight with Fernandes on a five-fight winning streak, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2024\/09\/30\/mma-junkies-knockout-of-the-month-for-september-fares-ziam-shuts-off-matt-frevola-with-all-time-knee\/79443138007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Knockout of the Year contender over Matt Frevola;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Knockout of the Year contender over Matt Frevola<\/a> last September in Paris. He is 6-0 fighting in his home country of France.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/01\/ufc-paris-fares-ziam-announces-withdrawal-fight-night-grandmother-death-funeral-family-first\/85926186007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fares Ziam announces withdrawal from UFC Fight Night 258;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fares Ziam announces withdrawal from UFC Fight Night 258<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fares Ziam has pulled himself from UFC Fight Night 258 due to personal reasons. Ziam (17-4 MMA, 7-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,78259,786,79234,79235,785,2591,85,44865],"class_list":["post-110637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fares-ziam","tag-fighting","tag-kaue-fernandes","tag-matt-frevola","tag-mma","tag-paris","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}