{"id":228804,"date":"2025-10-21T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228804\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:28:07","slug":"bekoev-upset-at-ufc-vancouver-pyfer-fires-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228804\/","title":{"rendered":"Bekoev Upset at UFC Vancouver, Pyfer Fires Back Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight prospect Azamat Bekoev suffered a stunning upset loss to promotional newcomer Yousri Belgaroui at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/395781\/ufc-vancouver-results-highlights-de-ridder-vs-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vancouver<\/a> this past weekend (Sat., Oct. 18, 2025), getting stopped in the third round inside Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\/396695\/video-highlights-ufc-vancouver-results-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bekoev got into brief spat with Joe Pyfer leading into his fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/31\/24397702\/joe-pyfer-disses-mexico-after-last-minute-fight-cancellation-i-will-never-fight-there-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pyfer withdrew from his fight <\/a>with Kelvin Gastelum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/31\/24397702\/joe-pyfer-disses-mexico-after-last-minute-fight-cancellation-i-will-never-fight-there-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to illness<\/a>, Bekoev mocked him by posting a video saying, \u201cHey Joey boy, take your medicine,\u201d while holding a box of Gas-X and eating tacos \u2014 a jab at Pyfer\u2019s stomach issues. To be fair, the comment came in response to Pyfer calling him a \u201cbitch with a padded record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, Pyfer definitely got the last laugh. After Bekoev\u2019s loss, Pyfer posted a photo of him on Instagram with the caption, \u201cBekoev is shit like I said. Padded\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bekoev (20-4) saw his eight-fight win streak snapped at UFC Vancouver, falling as one of the night\u2019s biggest betting favorites at -300.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSorry guys for that performance,\u201d Bekoev wrote. \u201cBut I will always remember my trip to Canada. Nothing but love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC Vancouver results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/395781\/ufc-vancouver-results-highlights-de-ridder-vs-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight prospect Azamat Bekoev suffered a stunning upset loss to promotional newcomer Yousri Belgaroui&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879,6656,14855],"class_list":["post-228804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-results","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228804","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=228804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}