{"id":38239,"date":"2025-08-01T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38239\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:56:08","slug":"brundidges-matthew-heffner-set-for-next-mma-fight-in-august-the-troy-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38239\/","title":{"rendered":"Brundidge\u2019s Matthew Heffner set for next MMA fight in August\u00a0 &#8211; The Troy Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Brundidge\u2019s Matthew Heffner set for next MMA fight in August\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 2:21 pm Friday, August 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img width=\"640\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Heffner-MMA.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Brundidge native Matthew Heffner will have a shot at a vacant amateur flyweight championship on Aug. 23. <\/p>\n<p>Brundidge\u2019s own Matthew Heffner \u2013 an undefeated top-ranked amateur MMA fighter \u2013 will hit the ring for his next fight on Aug. 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.troymessenger.com\/2025\/07\/08\/brundidge-native-matthew-heffner-becomes-no-1-ranked-amateur-mma-fighter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heffner<\/a> will face off against Lucas Gideon at Gladiator Promotions\u2019 Beatdown at The Beach 36 in Panama City Beach, Fla., on Aug. 23. The fight will be for the promotion\u2019s vacant amateur flyweight championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heffner is currently the No. 2-ranked amateur flyweight in North America and is 8-0, winning his last fight on Jun 27 by unanimous decision. This will be Heffner\u2019s third fight of 2025, after also winning by knockout back on April 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gideon is a 3-1 fighter out of Springfield, Missouri. He won his last fight via a rear naked choke submission on June 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heffner will look to add another championship to his trophy case at the event, which takes place at the Edgewater Beach Event Center in Panama City Beach, Fla., on Aug. 23.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brundidge\u2019s Matthew Heffner set for next MMA fight in August\u00a0 Published 2:21 pm Friday, August 1, 2025 Brundidge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-38239","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\/38239","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=38239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}