{"id":159720,"date":"2025-09-21T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159720\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:32:07","slug":"anything-but-fighting-gerald-meerschaert-answers-random-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159720\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything But Fighting: Gerald Meerschaert answers random questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">CHICAGO \u2014 UFC middleweight Gerald Meerschaert joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his love for astrophysics, musicians, movies, concerts, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A longtime UFC veteran, \u201cGM3\u201d was last seen coming up short to Michal Oleksiejczuk on the prelim card of UFC 319 in August. This setback marked Meerschaert\u2019s third straight loss, after having been finished by Reinier de Ridder and dropping a unanimous decision to Brad Tavares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To date, the Wisconsin native holds several UFC records, including most finishes and submission wins in middleweight division history, as well as the highest submission finish rate in UFC history (91.7%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 UFC middleweight Gerald Meerschaert joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his love for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-159720","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159720","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=159720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}