{"id":169212,"date":"2025-09-26T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169212\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:18:07","slug":"ex-ufc-ranked-heavyweight-replaces-injured-kyle-snyder-at-raf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169212\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC-ranked heavyweight replaces injured Kyle Snyder at RAF 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kyle Snyder is no longer scheduled to compete at the second Real American Freestyle event, but a familiar name to MMA fans is taking his place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Promotional officials announced that Snyder suffered an injury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/latest-news\/404414\/kyle-snyder-rebounds-to-claim-gold-at-wrestling-world-championships-after-olympics-loss-arrest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following his recent win at the World Championships<\/a>, which forced him out of his scheduled bout with NCAA champion and fellow Olympian Mason Parris. Replacing Snyder is former ranked UFC heavyweight, and current PFL fighter Alexandr Romanov. The event takes place Oct. 25 at Penn State, and streams exclusively on Fox Nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real American Freestyle also announced the card is being moved from Rec Hall to the Bryce Jordan Center \u2014 an arena that seats over 15,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Romanov competed 10 times in the UFC\u2019s octagon, compiling a promotional record of 7-3. The 34-year-old parted ways with the UFC following a decision win over Rodrigo Nascimento and signed with the PFL, where he competed in the heavyweight tournament. Romanov won his first two fights before losing a split decision to Oleg Popov in the finals in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Parris represented the United States at the 2024 Olympics, losing in the round of 16. Parris won the NCAA national title in folkstyle wrestling in 2023 representing the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Snyder is no longer scheduled to compete at the second Real American Freestyle event, but a familiar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,5963,7613,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-169212","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-pfl","14":"tag-pfl-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169212","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=169212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}