{"id":132763,"date":"2025-09-10T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132763\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:41:07","slug":"sorry-qatar-shara-bullet-magomedov-not-fighting-paulo-costa-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132763\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Qatar! Shara \u2018Bullet\u2019 Magomedov not fighting Paulo Costa in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fans of Shara \u201cBullet\u201d Magomedov may want to think twice before booking their flights to Qatar to see their favorite one-eyed pirate fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Paulo Costa, a fight the promotion had hoped to book for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/9\/24464419\/ufc-qatar-booked-nov-22-fight-night-event-doha-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doha Fight Night event<\/a> on November 22nd is no longer going to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cUFC: Shara bullet will probably not be able to fighting you,\u201d the Brazilian brawler wrote on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Magomedov has been pretty busy in 2025, fighting twice despite being unable to compete outside of the Middle East due to the whole one functioning eye thing. There had been talks of \u201cBullet\u201d and \u201cBorrachinha\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/386947\/report-paulo-costa-vs-shara-bullet-magomedov-in-the-works-for-ufc-qatar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being the co-main event <\/a>at the promotion\u2019s debut Qatar show, but Shara has opted to get nose surgery instead, putting the bout in \u2018not likely\u2019 territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s also the issue of Qatar becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/israel-qatar-doha-attack-gaza-09-10-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest country to be bombed<\/a> by Israel. They unleashed a surgical strike yesterday (Tue. Sept. 9th) to try and wipe out Hamas leadership invited to the country by the United States of America to work out a peace deal to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Qatar goes down from the Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena and features Jan Blachowicz vs. Bogdan Guskov, Bekzat Almakhan vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-announcements\/387023\/ilia-topurias-brother-has-second-fight-announced-will-return-at-ufc-qatar-against-bekzat-almakhan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilia Topuria\u2019s brother<\/a> Aleksandre Topuria, and Alex Perez vs. Asu Almabayev. A main event for the card has yet to be announced, and now the promotion is left looking for a co-main as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At this point it\u2019s unclear whether the promotion is still looking to have Costa on the card. We\u2019ll keep you updated as the card continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of Shara \u201cBullet\u201d Magomedov may want to think twice before booking their flights to Qatar to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-132763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132763","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=132763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}