{"id":636072,"date":"2026-04-28T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:03:17","slug":"anything-but-fighting-denzel-freeman-loves-batman-absolute-universe-comic-books-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636072\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything but Fighting: Denzel Freeman loves Batman, Absolute Universe, comic books, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LAS VEGAS \u2014 Former UFC heavyweight Denzel Freeman joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to explain his \u201cLuke Fox\u201d nickname, discuss his love for Batman, the Absolute Universe, comic books, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Freeman (7-2), a former LFA champion, was last seen being finished in Round 1 by Josh Hokit on the preliminary card of UFC 324 in January. This setback not only marked his first stoppage loss, but also his final UFC fight, as he was released from the promotion shortly after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Former UFC heavyweight Denzel Freeman joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to explain his \u201cLuke Fox\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-636072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636072","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=636072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}