{"id":598431,"date":"2026-04-10T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598431\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:47:09","slug":"did-kevin-holland-bail-out-daniel-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598431\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Kevin Holland bail out Daniel Rodriguez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MixCollage-10-Apr-2026-01-38-PM-111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24010799\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Getty Image<\/p>\n<p>A bizarre story is unfolding in the MMA world.<\/p>\n<p>UFC fighter Daniel Rodriguez, who had been mysteriously missing for some time, was apparently locked up in Mexico and is ready to make his return to MMA.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Rodriguez revealed that he had been in prison in Tijuana for the last 8 months and was just released last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight months in a cage in Tijuana, Mexico never killed my spirit. I did everything possible to stay on point and ready for my return to the UFC octagon,\u201d said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect a hungrier, more focused version of myself. They tried to take it all away, now it\u2019s time for me to come back and show you all the monster that prison created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to my legal and management team, family and real friends to help me be a free man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Top 15 UFC welterweight Daniel Rodriguez confirms he was released from prison today in Tijuana after being locked up for 8 months.<\/p>\n<p>He showed some footage of him training in the prison on his social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SDLWFmvVRN\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SDLWFmvVRN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FULL SEND MMA (@full_send_mma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/full_send_mma\/status\/2042359092224933948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Holland, who lost to Rodriguez last year, apparently bailed out his rival so that they could rematch in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Via Full Send MMA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bailed him out. I need to get this dub this weekend then he needs to get through this probation period and when I\u2019m ready to fight again, he will be read.y\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kevin Holland says he bailed out Daniel Rodriguez so he could get his UFC rematch with him<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bailed him out. I need to get this dub this weekend then he needs to get through this probation period and when I\u2019m ready to fight again he will be ready\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EzPsMJl5YD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EzPsMJl5YD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FULL SEND MMA (@full_send_mma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/full_send_mma\/status\/2041912817641570411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>It\u2019s still unclear why Rodriguez was in prison in Tijuana for the past eight months.<\/p>\n<p>Holland fights on Saturday night at UFC 327 in Miami, and it will be interesting to see how soon he could face off against Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Image A bizarre story is unfolding in the MMA world. UFC fighter Daniel Rodriguez, who had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,291888,786,6400,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-598431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-rodriuez","tag-fighting","tag-kevin-holland","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598431","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=598431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}