{"id":164519,"date":"2025-09-23T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164519\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:49:06","slug":"mma-star-charles-oliveira-to-face-silent-killer-at-ufc-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164519\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA star Charles Oliveira to face silent killer at UFC Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In a major UFC shakeup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mma\/players\/charles_oliveira\/137014\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Oliveira<\/a> has been handed a dangerous dark horse opponent for UFC Rio in October. Rafael Fiziev has withdrawn, and No. 7-ranked lightweight Mateusz Gamrot steps in. <\/p>\n<p>UFC officially announced the news on Tuesday. Their lightweight main event concludes on October 11, where Oliveira will put his No. 3 lightweight ranking on the line, while Gamrot arguably fights for title contention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mateusz Gamrot, that&#8217;s the guy we&#8217;re going to war with,&#8221; Oliveira announced in a video posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UFCBrasil\/status\/1970589275113824461\" rel=\"nofollow\">UFC Brasil<\/a>. &#8220;The rest [of the fighters] just wanted hype, they just wanted to talk nonsense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a major UFC shakeup, Charles Oliveira has been handed a dangerous dark horse opponent for UFC Rio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-164519","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\/164519","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=164519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}