{"id":161652,"date":"2025-09-22T19:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161652\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:03:20","slug":"san-angelos-arredondo-wins-mma-debut-despite-fighting-on-fractured-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161652\/","title":{"rendered":"San Angelo&#8217;s Arredondo Wins MMA Debut Despite Fighting on Fractured Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt felt great \u2014 a lot of years coming,\u201d Arredondo said.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo revealed after the fight that he had fractured his foot three weeks earlier. He added that he plans to rest and recover before returning to competition, possibly in December.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Conrad Duran, also of San Angelo, confirmed the injury but said it didn\u2019t affect Arredondo\u2019s performance. \u201cIt didn\u2019t bother him at all, thankfully \u2026 he did everything fine, even with that foot,\u201d Duran said.<\/p>\n<p>Duran described the fight as one-sided, crediting Arredondo\u2019s experience from years of youth competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis biggest strength was just pure confidence with his experience \u2026 once he stepped in the cage, it was like he was home, in a sense. Nothing was going to get him off that confidence,\u201d Duran said. &#8220;The other thing Caleb was doing well was transitioning to other options. He wasn&#8217;t being stubborn with anything. He was going for everything that was presented.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt felt great \u2014 a lot of years coming,\u201d Arredondo said. Arredondo revealed after the fight that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-161652","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\/161652","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=161652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}