{"id":508098,"date":"2026-02-27T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:53:09","slug":"ufc-vets-shara-bullet-vs-jorge-masvidal-booked-for-march-11-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508098\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC vets Shara Bullet\u00a0vs. Jorge Masvidal booked for March 11 in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jorge Masvidal is grappling Shara Magomedov in a submission-only showdown at the upcoming Hype Fighting Championship event on March 11 at Farmasi Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bewildered fight fans can\u2019t seem to figure out why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Masvidal has 35 wins in his MMA career but only two by submission and hasn\u2019t secured a tap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2013\/7\/29\/4566912\/ufc-fox-8-monday-michael-chiesa-choked-out-final-second-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in well over a decade<\/a>. Regardless, that\u2019s two more submissions than Magomedov has after 17 professional fights. In fact, \u201cBullet\u201d hasn\u2019t even scored a single takedown under the UFC banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I can\u2019t help but wonder how many competitors said no before Hype called Masvidal and Magomedov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Hype Brazil ticket page also has a fight poster for UFC fighters Arman Tsarukyan vs. Colby Covington, though nothing official has been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Expect more announcements for the March 11 fight card in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal is grappling Shara Magomedov in a submission-only showdown at the upcoming Hype Fighting Championship event on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,74670,786,74671,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-508098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bjj-news","tag-fighting","tag-jiu-jitsu-tournaments","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508098","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=508098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}