{"id":225740,"date":"2025-10-19T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225740\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:04:07","slug":"reinier-de-ridders-coach-issues-statement-over-stopping-the-fight-at-ufc-vancouver-it-was-the-right-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225740\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder\u2019s coach issues statement over stopping the fight at UFC Vancouver: \u2018It was the right call\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Friends, fans, and supporters,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I normally don\u2019t share personal things on here, but I feel I owe a little explanation to everyone who\u2019s been behind us. First of all, thank you for the amazing support we\u2019ve been receiving. It\u2019s been a crazy and busy year so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Last night didn\u2019t go as we wanted. After a very strong start in the first round, things quickly started fading and we couldn\u2019t really recover from the shots in and after the second round. I made the call to stop the fight after the fourth round. I take full responsibility for that decision and it was the right call to make for me in the moment. It\u2019s not a decision I ever wanted to make, but I guess sometimes you have to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">My job is to coach, but also to look out for my fighter\u2019s health. I\u2019ve been with Reinier for basically his whole career and saw too many signs that made me step in. If I didn\u2019t do anything, he would\u2019ve continued the fight. Rather than risk unnecessary damage, I decided to call it a day and go home as healthy as possible. Live to fight another day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I absolutely do not care about pleasing others if it comes at the cost of someone\u2019s health. There\u2019s a thin line between \u201cbeing tough\u201d and watching out for your health. This sport can be brutal. These guys sacrifice a lot of their life in and out of the cage &#8211; there\u2019s no need for excess damage if it can be avoided. Most people forget they\u2019re human too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Zero excuses for this loss, we knew what we were going for. We are not happy with this performance, but for now recovery first, evaluate some stuff and we will be back next year. It has been an amazing year overall and thankful for all the highs and lows in life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Proud of you my brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/deriddermma\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@deriddermma<\/a>. We\u2019ve come a long way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Have a wonderful day everyone and thank you for the continued support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">All love,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">(coach) Harun<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends, fans, and supporters, I normally don\u2019t share personal things on here, but I feel I owe a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225741,"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-225740","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\/225740","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=225740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}