{"id":29107,"date":"2025-07-29T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29107\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:22:07","slug":"the-thrill-and-agony-ufc-on-abc-9-winner-and-loser-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29107\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thrill and Agony: UFC on ABC 9 winner and loser reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived and survived through various websites, forums, and \u2013 perhaps most importantly \u2013 social-media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters interact with fans, each other and many more through the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, which helps outsiders get a deeper look into the minds of the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Following Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-abu-dhabi-july-26-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC on ABC 9;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC on ABC 9<\/a> in Abu Dhabi, several of the winning and losing fighters, along with their coaches, training partners or family members, took to social media to react to the event or share a message with supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of those reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The defeated: Marcus BuchechaThe defeated: Mohammad YahyaThe defeated: Ibo AslanThe defeated: Amanda RibasThe defeated: Carlos LealThe defeated: Said NurmagomedovThe defeated: Nikita KrylovThe defeated: Jose OchoaThe defeated: Marc-Andre BarriaultThe defeated: Marcus McGheeThe defeated: Robert WhittakerThe victorious: Martin BudayThe victorious: Steven NguyenThe victorious: Tabatha RicciThe victorious: Davey GrantThe victorious: Muslim SalikhovThe victorious: Bryce MitchellThe victorious: Bogdan GuskovThe victorious: Asu AlmabayevThe victorious: Shara MagomedovThe victorious: Petr YanThe victorious: Reinier de Ridder<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/blue-corner\/2025\/07\/28\/the-thrill-and-agony-ufc-abu-dhabi-winner-loser-reactions-social-media\/85404169007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Thrill and Agony: UFC Abu Dhabi winner and loser reactions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Thrill and Agony: UFC Abu Dhabi winner and loser reactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-29107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107","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=29107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}