{"id":192118,"date":"2025-10-05T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:16:07","slug":"afghan-mma-fighter-farid-basharat-wins-14th-straight-bout-in-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192118\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan MMA fighter Farid Basharat wins 14th straight bout in UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan mixed martial arts fighter Farid Basharat extended his undefeated streak to 14 wins after defeating Chris Guti\u00e9rrez of Guatemala in a UFC bout early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Basharat earned a unanimous decision victory over Guti\u00e9rrez in the fight held in the United States, according to event organizers. The win marks another milestone in the rising fighter\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan athlete, who competes in the bantamweight division, has remained unbeaten since turning professional. His previous victory came last year against Brazil\u2019s Victor Hugo in a UFC event held in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Basharat and his brother Javid Basharat, also a UFC fighter, are among the few Afghan-born athletes competing at the highest level of international mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afghan mixed martial arts fighter Farid Basharat extended his undefeated streak to 14 wins after defeating Chris Guti\u00e9rrez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-192118","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\/192118","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=192118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}