{"id":586102,"date":"2026-04-05T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:27:08","slug":"bas-rutten-would-be-proud-alessandro-costa-gets-liver-shot-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586102\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bas Rutten Would Be Proud&#8221; &#8211; Alessandro Costa Gets Liver Shot KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/alessandro-costa\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alessandro Costa<\/a> hasn&#8217;t always found success in his UFC tenure thus far, but he had a highlight during the prelims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-vegas-115\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 115<\/a>, putting away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/stewart-nicoll\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stewart Nicoll<\/a> with a nasty liver shot.<\/p>\n<p>Costa appeared to be fairly dominant in round one, bringing pressure and calculated striking that outmatched Nicoll&#8217;s flashy striking style. The second round proved to be more competitive, with some back-and-forth between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Costa, however, took round two over when he added successful takedown attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the closing seconds of the round, Costa landed a punch that went directly to the liver of Nicoll, causing him to crumble down in pain.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Costa Stops Stewart Nicoll At UFC Vegas 115<\/p>\n<p>Costa is now 3-3 in the UFC since entering from Lux Fight League. Two of his losses have notably come against Amir Albazi and Steve Erceg.<\/p>\n<p>Nicoll is 0-3 since arriving at the UFC in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alessandro Costa hasn&#8217;t always found success in his UFC tenure thus far, but he had a highlight during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[286873,64,63,786,785,85,286874,286107],"class_list":{"0":"post-586102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alessandro-costa","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stewart-nicoll","15":"tag-ufc-vegas-115"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586102","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=586102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}