{"id":293832,"date":"2025-11-19T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293832\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:54:12","slug":"ufcs-rodrigo-sezinando-plans-on-dropping-to-lightweight-and-looks-to-avoid-eye-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293832\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC\u2019s Rodrigo Sezinando plans on dropping to lightweight and looks to avoid eye surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Interview with Rodrigo Sezinando<\/p>\n<p>TUF finalist Rodrigo Sezinando (8-1) spoke about his UFC debut loss in September, when he\u2019s looking to return and a moving down to lightweight. Rodrigo also spoke about working with Daniel Cormier on an upcoming reality show, meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/mymmanews.com\/khamzat-chimaev-would-like-to-fight-alex-pereira-at-light-heavyweight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> and how he\u2019s hoping to avoid surgery on his eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fly back in two days to Vegas to check again my face. To actually know if I will do the surgery. I hope I don\u2019t need. So, if I don\u2019t need to do the surgery, I do believe I will be fighting in the beginning of next year. Either way if I do, I would do the beginning of December. I will have to take eight weeks to recovery. I do believe I will be fighting the first semester of 2026 for sure.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aioseo-author-bio-compact-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b36107c0-59a9-4756-a570-5f5ed42091d6.jpeg\" alt=\"author avatar\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCovering MMA since 2008, James Lynch is a freelance MMA journalist for MyMMANews and other notable outlets. He&#8217;s also a commentator for Rise Fighting Championships. Follow him on Twitter\/Instagram @LynchOnSports<\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview with Rodrigo Sezinando TUF finalist Rodrigo Sezinando (8-1) spoke about his UFC debut loss in September, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293832","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293832","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=293832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}