{"id":619683,"date":"2026-04-20T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:18:08","slug":"ufc-fighter-bailed-out-of-mexican-prison-joins-foos-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619683\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC fighter bailed out of Mexican prison joins \u2018Foos Gone Wild\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now that Rodriguez is once again a free man, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-327-live-stream-miami-prochazka-ulberg-mma\/434873\/ufc-327s-kevin-holland-will-do-anything-for-rematch-with-missing-daniel-rodriguez-i-bailed-him-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this fellow UFC fighter<\/a>, \u201cD-Rod\u201d is making up for lost time, linking up with \u201cFoos Gone Wild\u201d and Combate Global for a new amateur MMA series called \u201cFoos Fighting Championship\u201d on April 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That includes \u201cUnbreakable\u201d Bobby Liles (0-0), fresh off his stint with a court-mandated ankle monitor. Liles fights Jake \u201cBig Grease\u201d Lleckfelt (1-0), who was nearly greased earlier in his career after getting shot. Elsewhere on the card, Hansol Yi (0-0) returns after \u201ckickflipping a nine-stair\u201d to battle Ryan Pak (0-0), the \u201csick-ass soccer player from LA High.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been doing my homework on these foos and I already know we\u2019re gonna see some sick fades in La Jaula,\u201d said Lil\u2019 Mr. E, the founder and face of the Los Angeles-based comedy outfit Foos Gone Wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">La Jaula is the Combate Global Cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Foos Fighting Championship (FFC) will stream live on Samsung TV Plus and YouTube on Sat. night (April 25) at 9:30 p.m. ET. The card will also broadcast live in Spanish in the U.S. on EstrellaTV and Samsung TV Plus. Tickets are currently on sale via Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis event puts a fun spin on the sport of MMA, but I think we are also going to see the emergence of a few potential future stars that we wouldn\u2019t necessarily have had an opportunity to look at had we not created this event with Lil\u2019 Mr. E and Foos Gone Wild,\u201d said Combate Global CEO Campbell McLaren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Additional FFC bouts include Joseph Mu\u00f1oz (2-0) vs. Ariel Huizar (4-3), Carlos Meza (1-0) vs. Rey Rodriguez (0-5), Khachic Vardanian (2-0) vs. Carlos Venebra (0-0), and Erik Berganza vs. Jaeysen Jeff (2-4). FFC will be regulated by California Amateur Mixed Martial Arts Association in accordance with California state regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Rodriguez is once again a free man, thanks to this fellow UFC fighter, \u201cD-Rod\u201d is making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,300487,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-619683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-combate-global","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619683","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=619683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}