{"id":180166,"date":"2025-09-30T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:09:06","slug":"ufc-320-medical-issue-scratches-anticipated-bout-from-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180166\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 320: Medical issue scratches anticipated bout from Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The promotion returns to T-Mobile Arena this Saturday for the pay-per-view card, but the originally scheduled featured preliminary matchup will no longer take place at UFC 320. Ateba Gautier was slated to face Ozzy Diaz in a middleweight clash, however, Diaz announced that a medical issue has scratched him from the contest altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHey everyone, I have some really tough news to share,\u201d Diaz wrote. \u201cAfter careful consideration and talking with my team and medical professionals, I\u2019ve had to make the heartbreaking decision to pull out of my fight this week. This isn\u2019t a choice I ever thought I\u2019d have to make, but my health and safety have to come first. I truly appreciate all your support and understanding during this time, and I promise to come back stronger soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Diaz didn\u2019t reveal what the medical issue was, but went on to apologize to Gautier and the UFC for his withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of now, no word in regards to whether or not Gautier will still compete on the card this weekend. A Contender Series standout, Gautier is 2-0 with a pair of first-round knockouts in the UFC. In his most recent bout, the 23-year-old picked up a 70-second knockout of Robert Valentin at UFC 318 in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The promotion returns to T-Mobile Arena this Saturday for the pay-per-view card, but the originally scheduled featured preliminary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-180166","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180166","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=180166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}