{"id":313543,"date":"2025-11-28T03:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313543\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:50:07","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-investing-in-spanish-mma-promotion-wow-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313543\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo investing in Spanish MMA promotion WOW FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo is dipping his toes into MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo joins Georgian-Spanish UFC star Ilia Topuria as WOW FC shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>WOW FC, which stands for Way of Warrior FC, was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Madrid, where Ronaldo played for a decade with Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMMA represents values I truly believe in &#8211; discipline, respect, resilience, and the constant pursuit of excellence,&#8221; Ronaldo said in a press release. &#8220;WOW FC is building something unique and powerful, and I\u2019m proud to join this project to<br \/>help elevate the sport and inspire the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo is dipping his toes into MMA. Ronaldo joins Georgian-Spanish UFC star Ilia Topuria as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-313543","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\/313543","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=313543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}