{"id":434149,"date":"2026-01-24T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434149\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:28:08","slug":"ufc-324-modestas-bukauskas-says-he-drank-nightly-to-deal-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434149\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324: Modestas Bukauskas says he drank nightly to deal with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British-Lithuanian fighter Modestas Bukauskas speaks about turning to drink to help cope with injury and being dropped from the UFC before his light-heavyweight fight against Nikita Krylov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/c75xxy1nx23o\" class=\"ssrcss-7seijm-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heart surgery &amp; darkest nights &#8211; the unbreakable Bukauskas<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you have been affected by issues raised in this video, there is information and support available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/actionline\/\" class=\"ssrcss-7seijm-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Action Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British-Lithuanian fighter Modestas Bukauskas speaks about turning to drink to help cope with injury and being dropped from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-434149","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\/434149","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=434149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}