{"id":410416,"date":"2026-01-13T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:07:08","slug":"watch-mma-fighter-solomon-simon-speaks-about-his-waterford-mayoral-reception-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410416\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: MMA fighter Solomon Simon speaks about his Waterford mayoral reception &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Waterford MMA fighter, Solomon Simon, was honoured with a mayoral reception in City Hall on Friday, January 9, commemorating his crowning as the Cage Warriors World Featherweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Simon currently holds a record of 7-0 in professional MMA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He beat Brazilian Vincente Araujo in November 2025 to claim the division belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Simon is scheduled to defend his title against Nik Bagley at the RDS in Dublin on February 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The reception in Waterford was packed to the brim with Simon&#8217;s friends and family, training partners at Team Ryano (Simon&#8217;s MMA team,\u00a0 and delegates from Cage Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Watch the video below of Mayor of Waterford City and County, Cllr Seamus O&#8217;Brien, acknowledging Solomon and also hear the fighter speak about what it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford MMA fighter, Solomon Simon, was honoured with a mayoral reception in City Hall on Friday, January 9,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-410416","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\/410416","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=410416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}