{"id":594652,"date":"2026-04-09T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:03:09","slug":"pedro-munhoz-asks-for-ufc-release-after-22-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594652\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Munhoz asks for UFC release after 22 fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSince 2014, I\u2019ve been part of the UFC, building my name, proving myself, and showing what I\u2019m capable of inside that octagon,\u201d Munhoz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW4hodBlf2r\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<br \/>After 32 fights, I can proudly say I\u2019ve never been submitted or knocked out. I\u2019ve always stepped in there with heart, discipline, and respect for the game<br \/>There comes a point in life when you don\u2019t just stay comfortable, you take control of what\u2019s next. Right now, I feel it\u2019s time to take a new direction, explore different opportunities, and focus on other important areas of my life. I\u2019ve asked the UFC to release me, and I\u2019m currently in the process of becoming a free agent<br \/>I\u2019m not retiring yet. Still hungry. Still focused. Still ready to put on great fights and make statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSince 2014, I\u2019ve been part of the UFC, building my name, proving myself, and showing what I\u2019m capable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,61417],"class_list":["post-594652","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-roster-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594652","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=594652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}