{"id":292390,"date":"2025-11-18T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292390\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:48:10","slug":"dricus-du-plessis-headlines-cape-towns-first-major-mma-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292390\/","title":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis Headlines Cape Town\u2019s First Major MMA Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town, get ready\u00a0for some serious mixed martial arts heat.\u00a0Former UFC Middleweight Champion\u00a0Dricus du Plessis, Knox Hydrate founders\u00a0Ethan Hughes, and\u00a0EFC president Cairo Howarth\u00a0joined Cape Town Mayor\u00a0Geordin Hill-Lewis on Monday to officially announce the\u00a0MMA Knox Legacy Series &#8211; set to take place in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Du Plessis described the upcoming debut event as a means to show the world &#8211; including the UFC &#8211; that South Africa, and Cape Town in particular, has what it takes to host major MMA showcases.<\/p>\n<p>The series will give Cape Town\u2019s homegrown mixed martial arts talent, including \u201cTroublemaker\u201d Faeez Jacobs, a prime stage to showcase their grit and passion behind the popular global sport.<\/p>\n<p>Fight night is locked in for\u00a026 February 2026\u00a0at the\u00a0GrandWest Grand Arena, marking the first event in what is slated to become a recurring series, as the official kick-off to the\u00a0EFC\u2019s 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.timeout.com\/cape-town-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/forms.timeout.com\/cape-town-newsletter\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/forms.timeout.com\/cape-town-newsletter\" data-modified- rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up to Time Out Cape Town&#8217;s free newsletter\u00a0<\/a>for expert recommendations on new things to do, see,\u00a0eat\u00a0and\u00a0drink\u00a0in the Mother City. You can also follow\u00a0Time Out Cape Town on\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timeoutcpt\" target=\"_blank\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timeoutcpt\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timeoutcpt\" data-modified- rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/timeout.capetown\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/timeout.capetown\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/timeout.capetown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@timeoutcapetown\" target=\"_blank\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@timeoutcapetown\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@timeoutcapetown\" data-modified- rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Town, get ready\u00a0for some serious mixed martial arts heat.\u00a0Former UFC Middleweight Champion\u00a0Dricus du Plessis, Knox Hydrate founders\u00a0Ethan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,83673,786,785,83674,83671,85],"class_list":["post-292390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-categories-sport-and-fitness","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-news-sport-fitness","tag-sport-and-fitness","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292390","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=292390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}