{"id":646002,"date":"2026-05-03T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:26:12","slug":"tai-tuivasa-reacts-to-ufc-fight-night-275-loss-ill-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646002\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Tuivasa reacts to UFC Fight Night 275 loss: &#8216;I&#8217;ll never give up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tai Tuivasa said going into <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-perth-may-2-della-maddalena-vs-prates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 275;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Fight Night 275&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 275<\/a> that his job was on the line.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Tuivasa (14-10 MMA, 8-10 UFC) extended his losing skid to seven when he was dominated by short-notice replacement Louie Sutherland (11-5 MMA, 1-2 UFC) for the vast majority of three rounds, losing a unanimous decision at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While his future with the company remains uncertain, Tuivasa issued an statement on social media hours after the fight. He apologized to his fans and supporters and indicated he&#8217;s not quite done yet despite the repeated bumps in the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SORRY, I tried I felt good I put in the work didn\u2019t get result. I feel like a sh*t c*nt let my fans down again,&#8221; Tuivasa wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Back to the drawing board for me. C*nt of a sport. BUT I WILL NEVER GIVE UP IM FROM WESTERNSYDNEY YOU GOTTA PUT ME OUT FOR ME TO GIVE UP. Sorry all my loyal fans I really am and to my team love yahs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tai Tuivasa said going into UFC Fight Night 275 that his job was on the line. On Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,112409,785,85,112899,44865,9222],"class_list":["post-646002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-louie-sutherland","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-tai-tuivasa","tag-ufc-fight-night","tag-unanimous-decision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646002","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=646002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}