{"id":156816,"date":"2025-09-20T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156816\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:06:10","slug":"sources-fiziev-injured-out-of-ufc-rio-bout-vs-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156816\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources — Fiziev injured, out of UFC Rio bout vs. Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brett OkamotoSep 21, 2025, 12:16 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n

The UFC has lost a lightweight main event between Charles Oliveira<\/a> and Rafael Fiziev<\/a> on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n

The 155-pound contest was supposed to headline UFC Fight Night in Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, but Fiziev (13-4) has been forced to withdraw due to injury, sources confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n

Octagon Update was first to report the news of Fiziev’s injury. The UFC has not commented on Fiziev’s injury or a potential replacement opponent.<\/p>\n

Oliveira (35-11), 35, is set to compete in his home country of Brazil for the first time since March 2020. He is looking to bounce back from a knockout loss<\/a> to Ilia Topuria<\/a> in their June showdown for the division’s vacant title.<\/p>\n

Fiziev, 32, would have been looking to build off an upset decision win against Ignacio Bahamondes<\/a> in June. Prior to that, he dropped a decision<\/a> to Justin Gaethje<\/a> in a short-notice fight in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoSep 21, 2025, 12:16 AM CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-156816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156816","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=156816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}