{"id":265468,"date":"2025-11-06T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:20:09","slug":"reinier-de-ridder-opens-up-on-ufc-vancouver-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265468\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder Opens Up On UFC Vancouver Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDutch Knight\u201d isn\u2019t feeling great.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still feel like shit. When I walk up the stairs, I\u2019m out of breath,\u201d de Ridder told Submission Radio<\/a> recently when asked if he\u2019s back to 100 percent. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of information coming back from the blood work and everything, but I don\u2019t want to be too specific because I\u2019ll never get a rematch. There are some physical things that are wrong, and I\u2019m going to see if I can fix all of this before I come back. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve struggled with in the past, and I thought I fixed it, but apparently I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old attributes the UFC Vancouver setback to overtraining and a brutal weight cut<\/a> \u2014 factors that might push him to move up to Light Heavyweight down the road, though he insists there\u2019s still unfinished business at Middleweight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really stubborn, as a Dutchman should be, and I kept pushing myself to go harder and harder \u2014 and that\u2019s what showed in the fight,\u201d de Ridder said. \u201cIt was much harder to get down in weight this time, but most importantly, I beat up my body like crazy this year. I went too far\u2026 I f\u2014ked up. I was so focused on the title and finally got my title shot, and I thought I would secure it, so I kept pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDutch Knight\u201d isn\u2019t feeling great. \u201cI still feel like shit. When I walk up the stairs, I\u2019m out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-265468","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-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265468","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=265468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}