{"id":541117,"date":"2026-03-15T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:34:09","slug":"most-improved-fighters-arc-ion-cutelaba-submits-oumar-sy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541117\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Most Improved Fighter&#8217;s Arc&#8221; &#8211; Ion Cutelaba Submits Oumar Sy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in three fights, and the second time overall in his MMA career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/oumar-sy\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oumar Sy<\/a> tastes defeat. This time, it comes courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ion-cutelaba\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ion Cutelaba<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-vegas-114\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 114<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cutelaba looked to press the pace early with a kick-based attack before clinching up Sy. Cutelaba scored a takedown, but Sy battled back and landed a slam, nearly locking up a leg lock.<\/p>\n<p>Cutelaba was able to gain top control back, and when Sy looked to regain control with another takedown, Cutelaba locked him up in a guillotine. Cutelaba secured a guillotine from mount, making Sy quickly tap out in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Ion Cutelaba Submits Oumar Sy At UFC Vegas 114<\/p>\n<p>Cutelaba is now 4-2 in his last six fights. He came into this fight off a controversial split decision loss to Modestas Bukauskas at UFC 315.<\/p>\n<p>Sy now falls to 12-2. He came into this fight off a win over Brendson Ribeiro, which was a rebound after his first pro loss against Alonzo Menifield. Sy also has wins over Tuco Tokkos and Da Woon Jung in the Octagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time in three fights, and the second time overall in his MMA career, Oumar Sy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,73063,785,268102,85,267912],"class_list":["post-541117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-ion-cutelaba","tag-mma","tag-oumar-sy","tag-sports","tag-ufc-vegas-114"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541117","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=541117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}