{"id":204406,"date":"2025-10-11T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204406\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:20:07","slug":"bettors-beware-ufc-rio-fighter-appears-to-have-broken-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204406\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettors beware! UFC Rio fighter appears to have broken hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Featherweight Lucas Almeida may be entering his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-predictions\/394642\/ufc-rio-preview-oliveira-vs-gamrot-predictions-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Rio<\/a> match up compromised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Brazilian slugger is scheduled to face Texan striker Michael Aswell tomorrow evening (Sat., Oct. 11, 2025) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but there appears to be an issue with his right hand. Eagle-eyed Redditor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/TheBigRedHalfrican\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/u\/TheBigRedHalfrican<\/a> noticed that Aswell\u2019s right hand was severely swollen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-weigh-in-video\/395079\/live-ufc-rio-ceremonial-weigh-ins-video-results-oliveira-vs-gamrot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday\u2019s weigh-ins<\/a>. It\u2019s impossible to diagnose from a screenshot alone, but Almeida\u2019s hand certainly appears broken. At the very least, it\u2019s an obvious edema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately, UFC fighters often enter bouts with injuries. It\u2019s a common strategy among professional fighters to neglect to mention injuries during pre-fight medical exams, because it they \u201chappen\u201d during the bout itself, event insurance will cover the cost. It\u2019s an open secret! The promotion doesn\u2019t want fights to be canceled, and athletes still want to get paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even so, injuries are usually harder to detect. There\u2019s clearly something wrong with Almeida\u2019s hand visible to anyone with eyes, but at the time of writing, the fight is scheduled to go on regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Featherweight Lucas Almeida may be entering his UFC Rio match up compromised. The Brazilian slugger is scheduled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,19458],"class_list":{"0":"post-204406","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-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-odds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204406","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=204406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}