{"id":265137,"date":"2025-11-05T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265137\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:43:09","slug":"former-ufc-fighter-gets-jail-time-in-domestic-violence-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265137\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighter gets jail time in domestic violence case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight, Casey Kenney, was sentenced to 180 days in jail after pleading guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/20\/24224876\/report-ufc-bantamweight-casey-kenney-arrested-for-alleged-domestic-abuse-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a domestic violence charge filed in July 2024<\/a>. In addition, Kenney will be required to complete a substance abuse program and a domestic violence offender treatment program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kenney, 34, racked up a pair of fights on Dana White\u2019s \u201cContender Series\u201d back in summer 2017 and after a brief (and successful stint) for Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA), Kenney (16-4-1) signed with UFC. The Arizonian racked up a 5-3 record inside the Octagon and has not competed since dropping back-to-back decision losses to Dominick Cruz (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/3\/5\/22307623\/ufc-259-live-stream-results-blachowicz-vs-adesanya-play-by-play-updates-las-vegas-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 259<\/a>) and Yadong Song (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/8\/7\/22605702\/ufc-265-results-live-stream-updates-highlights-fight-videos-lewis-gane-heavyweight-espn-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 265<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kenney was able to plead down his original charges of kidnapping and disorderly conduct, among other allegations, but will serve supervised probation in addition to his jail time for a separate charge of possessing drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His anticipated release date is May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight, Casey Kenney, was sentenced to 180 days in jail after pleading guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-265137","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265137","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=265137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}