{"id":31723,"date":"2025-07-30T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31723\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:25:09","slug":"its-a-huge-honour-wolverhampton-mma-icon-jai-herbert-receives-honorary-doctorate-at-2025-graduation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31723\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a huge honour&#8217; &#8211; Wolverhampton MMA icon Jai Herbert receives honorary doctorate at 2025 graduation awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic mixed martial art (MMA) champion, Jai Herbert, was surrounded by his family and friends as he took to the stage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/wolverhampton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton&#8217;s<\/a> The Halls to receive an honorary doctorate from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=DChsSEwii48Tir-KOAxWMmFAGHS6aPHwYACICCAEQABoCZGc&amp;co=1&amp;ase=2&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw4qHEBhCDARIsALYKFNMqKZvWK8k_Hz9AgLqPzxIkb-4U1TBFmF6xonKJWlSh50ImR9nAfXsaAq8YEALw_wcB&amp;ohost=www.google.com&amp;cid=CAESVuD2XSpdIj8hM0ZQHAiVWFQ54YqLYs426KaaTdnBeJIacsl83Dn6R9mh1DPeIYjfvY0ezWqJkQ1S5i5gcY7w5tMS0WY0LNNZx9Q1VYsGllKN8IT1SvVp&amp;category=acrcp_v1_40&amp;sig=AOD64_1MO_n7_-iHVrtZIPGv5tJ3najUWQ&amp;q&amp;nis=4&amp;adurl&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiX_bzir-KOAxUSW0EAHTKvCngQ0Qx6BAgLEAE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Wolverhampton<\/a> for his work in the field of sport.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverhampton-born MMA fighter, from Low Hill, also known as the &#8216;Black Country Banger&#8217;, rose through the cage fighting ranks to compete in the world-renowned Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), representing the Black Country in the ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cb6e7dee-3619-4b8d-8b85-e1e8903c7029.jpg\"   alt=\"Jai Herbert was granted the honorary degree for his work in the field of sport\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Jai Herbert was granted the honorary degree for his work in the field of sport<\/p>\n<p>Now, the fighter has traded the &#8216;octagon&#8217; [UFC ring] for the stage as he walked the carpet to give students a motivational speech about dedication and perseverance, as well as collect his honorary degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iconic mixed martial art (MMA) champion, Jai Herbert, was surrounded by his family and friends as he took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,2555,786,29735,785,44,85,23250],"class_list":["post-31723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-education","tag-fighting","tag-local-hubs","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-wolverhampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31723","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=31723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}