{"id":586992,"date":"2026-04-05T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:07:08","slug":"ufc-fighter-issues-update-after-being-brutally-knocked-out-cold-by-vicious-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586992\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC fighter issues update after being brutally knocked out cold by vicious knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">UFC fighter Hailey Cowan has issued an update after she was knocked out by a vicious knee kick from Alice Pereira at UFC Fight Night 272.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Cowan, who was born in Texas, was taking on up-and-coming Brazilian star Pereira in a bantamweight fight on the preliminary card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In the fifth minute of the second round, 20-year-old Pereira connected with a brutal knee clean to the face of Cowan, who immediately fell down to the canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Pereira hit the American with another punch while she was on the mat, before the referee quickly intervened to get between the fighters and wave off the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Nicknamed the &#8216;Golden Girl&#8217;, Pereira now has a fight record of 7-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">She is the youngest female fighter to win a fight in the UFC, and the youngest to score a knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">As for Cowan, she suffered what was UFC Fight Night&#8217;s second brutal knockout in consecutive weeks, with Maycee Barber being KO&#8217;d by a brutal right hook from Alexa Grasso in Seattle last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">She <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/allhailmma\/?hl=en-gb\">wrote on Instagram<\/a> following the fight: &#8220;God is still good. I still have lots to smile about \ud83d\ude42 and I am just fine. Heartbroken, but blessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Passion is what we do, purpose is why we do it. Thank you Jesus for the courage to do scary things and to dream big. Chin is still high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Barber herself responded to the post, writing: &#8220;God is good all the time you will be back better than before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">UFC Fight Night 272 was highlighted by Renato Moicano&#8217;s victory over Chris Duncan via rear-naked choke submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The promotion&#8217;s next blockbuster event will be UFC 327, which is due to be held on April 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In the main event, Jiri Prochazka will take on Carlos Ulberg for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, which has been vacated by Alex Pereira &#8211; of no relation to Alice &#8211; as he intends to challenge for the UFC Heavyweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC fighter Hailey Cowan has issued an update after she was knocked out by a vicious knee kick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-586992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586992","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=586992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}