{"id":564294,"date":"2026-03-25T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:46:08","slug":"movsar-evloev-broke-nose-weeks-before-ufc-london-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564294\/","title":{"rendered":"Movsar Evloev broke nose weeks before UFC London win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was anything but a smooth training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No. 1-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight contender Movsar Evloev picked up a controversial majority decision win over Lerone Murphy in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/428809\/ufc-london-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-evloev-vs-murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC London<\/a> this past weekend (Sat., March 21, 2026) inside the O2 Arena in London, England \u2014 and the victory may be even more impressive than it initially seemed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s because Evloev reportedly broke his nose just four weeks before fight night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite all of that, the undefeated Russian still delivered when it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now 10-0 inside the Octagon, Evloev holds notable wins over Murphy, Aljamain Sterling, Arnold Allen, and Diego Lopes \u2014 and appears to have finally secured a long-awaited title shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was anything but a smooth training camp. No. 1-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight contender Movsar Evloev&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,6656],"class_list":["post-564294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564294","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=564294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}