{"id":515150,"date":"2026-03-03T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:32:10","slug":"nicky-rod-makes-ufc-bjj-debut-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515150\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Rod makes UFC BJJ debut in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC BJJ continues to add to its growing roster of talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday, during UFC Mexico, the UFC announced that Nicky Rodriguez will make his promotional debut at UFC BJJ 6, where he takes on Elder Cruz in a heavyweight contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A two-time ADCC silver medalist, \u201cNicky Rod\u201d rose to prominence as part of the Danaher Death Squad and later helped found B Team Jiu Jitsu, where he won the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational. Cruz is also an accomplished black belt, winning world championships at the brown and blue belt levels, before also winning the IBJJF No Gi Worlds in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Also added to the card, Ana Rodrigues takes on Jasmine Rocha and Manuel Ribamar squares off with Caio Vinicius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC BJJ goes down March 12 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. It is headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between Mason Fowler and Pedro Machado, and also a women\u2019s bantamweight title bout between Ffion Davies and Cassia Moura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC BJJ continues to add to its growing roster of talent. On Saturday, during UFC Mexico, the UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-515150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515150","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=515150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}