{"id":426264,"date":"2026-01-20T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:18:10","slug":"haider-khan-looks-to-rejuvenate-pfls-boring-middleweight-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426264\/","title":{"rendered":"Haider Khan looks to rejuvenate PFL\u2019s \u201cboring\u201d middleweight division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Interview with Haider Khan<\/p>\n<p>Haider Khan (10-1) discusses his middleweight fight against Jhony Gregory (9-5) at PFL Dubai on Feb. 7. Haider also spoke about his layoff coming into the fight, training in Colorado with Neil Magny and why how he\u2019s looking to shake up PFL\u2019s middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLets be honest the PFL\u2019s divisions have been quite boring at middleweight. They just rematch everyone. Let me be the young blood and rejuvenate it. I\u2019m 26 years old I can carry that belt for a while. They\u2019re all 30 and above. I\u2019ll be the one to put them all into retirement and take the belt.\u201d<\/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\tPost navigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview with Haider Khan Haider Khan (10-1) discusses his middleweight fight against Jhony Gregory (9-5) at PFL Dubai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-426264","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\/426264","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=426264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}