{"id":272251,"date":"2025-11-09T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272251\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:42:10","slug":"dana-white-shares-fighters-gnarly-cut-after-ufc-vegas-111-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272251\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White shares fighter\u2019s gnarly cut after UFC Vegas 111 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ricky Simon is going home with a loss on his record and a new scar as a bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The veteran bantamweight dropped a hard-fought decision to Raoni Barcelos at UFC Vegas 111 on Saturday and required some serious stitchwork after the fight was over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC CEO Dana White showed the gruesome aftermath with photos posted on Instagram that showed the before and after of Simon\u2019s chin after it took the worst of the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s not clear when the cut happened, but Simon and Barcelos were definitely trading bombs throughout the fight in a back-and-forth brawl across all three rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the end, Barcelos did more damage and produced better offense as the Brazilian notched his fourth consecutive win in a row, which also includes a victory over highly touted prospect Payton Talbott back in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Simon, he falls to 2-4 in his past six outings but he had won his past two in a row before dropping the decision to Barcelos on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Simon is going home with a loss on his record and a new scar as a bonus.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-272251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272251","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=272251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}