{"id":644772,"date":"2026-05-02T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:11:13","slug":"highlights-kody-steele-sparks-ufc-perth-with-slick-heel-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644772\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights! Kody Steele Sparks UFC Perth With Slick Heel Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kody Steele got things off to a hot start earlier this morning (Sat., May 2, 2026) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/429844\/ufc-perth-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-jack-della-vs-prates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Perth<\/a> LIVE on Paramount+ from inside RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, sparking the \u201cPrelims\u201d undercard with a slick first-round submission (inverted heel hook) against hometown fighter Dom Mar Fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Steele came into Saturday\u2019s early-morning affair as an oddsmaker\u2019s favorite, but all bets were off when matched up against \u201cStreet Buddha.\u201d That\u2019s because Mar Fan has proven to be dangerous on the feet and the ground throughout his MMA career. He was also coming off a win in his Octagon debut this past January, while Steele dropped his own debut to Rong Zhu back in Feb. 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first half of the first round was a solid back-and-forth, but things took a turn for the worse for Mar Fan with just over 90 seconds to go as Steele grabbed a hold of a nasty heel hook. Mar Fan tried to play it off and shake his leg free, but the hold was tight. Steele started to crank and eventually forced the tap. It was pretty impressive, especially considering Steele only had one submission on his record entering this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the video highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Perth results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/439537\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kody Steele got things off to a hot start earlier this morning (Sat., May 2, 2026) at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,46234,6656],"class_list":["post-644772","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-videos","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644772","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=644772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}