{"id":177946,"date":"2025-09-29T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:30:07","slug":"mark-kerr-reflects-on-life-career-ahead-of-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177946\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kerr reflects on life, career ahead of movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1auyl30od\">MMA legend and former UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr sits down with Sports Illustrated\u2019s Jean Chery to reflect on his extraordinary journey, from the highs of fighting glory to the struggles of addiction, identity and recovery. Once known as \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d, Kerr\u2019s life is now being told on the big screen with Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson bringing his story to Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA legend and former UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr sits down with Sports Illustrated\u2019s Jean Chery to reflect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-177946","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\/177946","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=177946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}