{"id":202384,"date":"2025-10-10T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202384\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:21:16","slug":"former-ufc-fighter-suman-mokhtarian-who-played-mma-in-south-korea-was-killed-in-the-shooting-he-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202384\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian, who played MMA in South Korea, was killed in the shooting. He w.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news-p.v1.20251010.4c6173542a9d4489b0368f23e3ba3b66_P1.png\" orgwidth=\"700\" orgheight=\"431\" alt=\"Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian, who played MMA in South Korea, was killed in the shooting. He was 33. [Photo source = CBS News]\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian, who played MMA in South Korea, was killed in the shooting. He was 33. [Photo source = CBS News]      <\/p>\n<p refid=\"2\">Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian, who played MMA in South Korea, was killed in the shooting. He was 33.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"3\">U.S. media ESPN reported that Moktarian was shot and killed at 6 p.m. on the 8th (local time) in Riverstone, western Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"4\">According to ESPN, the New South Wales (NSW) police said in an official statement, &#8220;It is presumed to be a &#8216;targeted attack,&#8217; and the emergency services who were dispatched after receiving the report found Mocktarian shot, but died at the scene despite the efforts of paramedics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p refid=\"5\">Moktarian reportedly suffered the accident while taking an evening walk.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"6\">Shortly after the shooting, two cars were found burned near the scene of the incident.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"7\">Mokhtarian, who entered the UFC in 2018 after making his professional debut in 2012 and winning eight consecutive games, then ended his career and turned into a coach early on.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"8\">In particular, Moktarian is also related to Korea.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"9\">In December 2019, he faced &#8220;Sting&#8221; Choi Seung-woo in an undercard featherweight match of &#8220;UFC Fight Night 165&#8221; in Busan. At that time, Moktarian was defeated by Choi Seung-woo&#8217;s strike, which became his last fight as a UFC fighter.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"10\">Upon hearing the news of Moktarian&#8217;s death, his student Jesse Swain mourned on social media, saying, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t sleep after hearing the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian, who played MMA in South Korea, was killed in the shooting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-202384","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\/202384","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=202384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}