{"id":521695,"date":"2026-03-06T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521695\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:01:07","slug":"jun-yong-park-forced-out-of-ufc-vegas-115-fight-with-edmen-shahbazyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521695\/","title":{"rendered":"Jun Yong Park forced out of UFC Vegas 115 fight with Edmen Shahbazyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jun Yong Park will have surgery to treat an injury that forced him to withdraw from a UFC Vegas 115 fight with Edmen Shahbazyan on April 4, multiple people with knowledge of the news confirmed to MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s still unclear who will replace \u201cThe Iron Turtle\u201d against \u201cThe Golden Boy\u201d in the three-round clash at the Meta APEX. UFC Vegas 115 is topped by a lightweight showdown between Renato Moicano and Chris Duncan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Park (19-7) was hoping to get back on track after losing a decision to Ikram Aliskerov in October, a result that snapped a winning streak over Brad Tavares and Ismail Naurdiev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shahbazyan (16-5), should he get a replacement, will have the chance to tie his longest streak in the UFC since his start in the promotion after beating Dylan Budka, Andre Petroski, and Andre Muniz for a perfect 3-0 run in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mike Heck contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jun Yong Park will have surgery to treat an injury that forced him to withdraw from a UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521696,"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-521695","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\/521695","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=521695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}